Black Creators Nonfiction and Biographies

Nonfiction: Art, Music, Nonfiction: History Dance & Sports Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. What Color is My Celenza, Anna Harwell. Duke Elington's World? The Lost History of African- Nutcracker Suite. (781.65 CEL) American Inventors. (920.073 ABD) Cline-Ransome, Lesa. My Story, My Dance: Bolden, Tonya. How to Build a Museum: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey. Smithsonian's National Museum of African (792.8 CLI) American History and Culture. (973.049 BOL) Grady, Cynthia. Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song. (782.253 GRA) Evans, Shane W. Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom. (973.7 EVA) Hill, Laban Carrick. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. (738.092 HIL) Harrison, Vashti. Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History. (920.71 Hill, Laban Carrick. When the Beat was HAR) Nonfiction: Civil Rights Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop. (781.649 HIL) Henson, Heather. Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop, McKissack, Pat. Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Slave-Explorer. (973.711 HEN) Alko, Selina. The Case for Loving: The Fight Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! Games, for Interracial Marriage. (306.846 ALK) Songs, and Stories From an African Hudson, Cheryl Willis. Brave, Black, First: American Childhood. (305.896 MCK) 50+ African American Women Who Bass, Hester. Seeds of Freedom: The Changed the World. (920.72 HUD) Peaceul Integration of Huntsville, Alabama. Nelson, Kadir. We are the Ship: The Story (323.1 BAS) of Negro League Baseball. (796.357 NEL) Hudson, Wade. Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by Bausum, Ann. The Against Fear: The Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Rhythm Ride: A African Americans. (920.073 HUD) Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Road Trip Through the Motown Sound. Movement and the Emergence of Black (781.644 PIN) Nelson, Kadir. Heart and Soul: The Story of Power. (323.119 BAU) American and African Americans. Rockwell, Ann F. Hey, Charleston! The True (973.049 NEL) Clark-Robinson, Monica. Let the Children Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band. March. (323.119 CLA) (784.4 ROC) Pinkney, Andrea David. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Goodman, Susan. The First Step: How One Rolling, James. Come Look with Me: (920.073 PIN) Girl Put Segregation on Trial. (344.079 Discovering African-American Art for GOO) Children. (704.039 ROL) Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African- Langley, Sharon. A Ride to Remember: A Skead, Robert. Something to Prove: The American Women Who Helped Launch Our Merry-Go-Round and its Civil Rights Story. Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe Nation Into Space (Young Reader's (305.8 LAN) Dimaggio. (796.357 SKE) Edition). (510.92 LEE) Lowery, Lynda Blackmon. Turning 15 on Smith, Charles R., Jr. Stars in the Shadows: Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color: the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934. The True Story of the Triple Nickles, Selma Voting Rights March. (323.119 (796.357 SMI) American's First Black Paratroopers. LOW) (920.54 STO) Winter, Jonah. How Jelly Roll Morton Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Sit-In: How Four Invented Jazz. (781.65 WIN) Sherman, Patrice. Ben and the Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down. (323.19 Emancipation Proclamation. (973.7 SHE) PIN)

Smith, Charles R., Jr. 28 Days: Moments in Shelton, Paula Young. Child of the Civil Black History That Changed the World. Rights Movement. (323.119 SHE) (973.049 SMI) Watkins, Angela Farris. My Uncle Martin's Smith, Charles R., Jr. Brick by Brick. (975.3 Big Heart. (323.092 WAT) SMI)

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices. (305.8 WE) Woelfle, Gretchen. Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution. (973.3 WOE) continued on back

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Nonfiction: Poetry & Between the Lines: How Ernie BARNES Went from the Football Field to the Art Folk Tales Gallery. My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Alexander, Kwame. Out of Wonder: Poems BEARDEN's Childhood Journey. Celebrating Poets. (811 ALE) Gwendolyn BROOKS: "Poetry is Life Brooks, Gwendolyn. Bronzeville Boys and Distilled." Girls. (811 BRO) Biographies: Science Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from & Technology Bryan, Ashley. Freedom Over Me. (811 World War II to Peace. (BRYAN) BRY) Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Ticktock BANNEKER's Clock. Greenfield, Eloise. The Great Migration: COLLINS. Journey to the North. (811 GRE) Secret Garden of George Washington Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of CARVER. Grimes, Nikki. One Last Word: Wisdom John COLTRANE. From the Harlem Renaissance. (811 GRI) No Small Potatoes: Junius G. GROVES and Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young His Kingdom in Kansas. Hamilton, Virginia. Her Stories: African Reader's Edition). (COPELAND) American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True I, Matthew HENSON: Polar Explorer. Tales and The People Could Fly: American Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Black Folktales. (398.2 HAM) DAVIS Found His Sound. Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to JOHNSON. Rivers. (811 HUG) Ballerina. (DEPRINCE) Whoosh! Lonnie JOHNSON's Super-Soaking Lester, Julius. Uncle Remus: The Complete Duke ELLINGTON: The Piano Prince and His Stream of Inventions. Tales. (398.2 LES) Orchestra. Sewing Stories: Harriet POWERS' Journey Myers, Walter Dean. Blues Journey. (811 Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella FITZGERALD. from Slave to Artist. MYE) A Voice Named Aretha. (FRANKLIN) Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Nelson, Marilyn. How I Discovered Poetry. Vivien THOMAS. (811 NEL) Voice of Freedom: , The Spirit of the . Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Martin Rising: deGrasse TYSON. Requiem for a King. (811 PIN) Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi HENDRIX. Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Rochelle, Belinda. Words with Wings: A Mind of Charles Henry TURNER. Treasury of African-American Poetry and Mister and Lady Day: Billie HOLIDAY and Art. (811 WOR) the Dog Who Loved Her. Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove WALKER. Sore, Diane ZuHone. This Is the Dream. The Legendary Miss Lena HORNE. (811 SHO) Biographies: Sports Little Melba and Her Big Trombone. Weatherford, Carole Boston. Becoming (LISTON) Billie Holiday. (811 WEA) Champion: The Story of . Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Woodson, Jacqueline. brown girl dreaming. Designer Ann Cole LOWE. Touch the Sky: Alice COACHMAN, Olympic (811 WOO) High Jumper. Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Biographies: Art, Music, Florence MILLS. Let 'er Buck: George FLETCHER, the People's Champion. Dance & Literature : How the Photographer Captured Black and White America. Althea GIBSON: The Story of Tennis' Fleet- of -Foot Girl. Alvin AILEY. Leontyne PRICE: Voice of a Century. Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack JOHNSON. Marian ANDERSON: Amazing Opera Singer. Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul ROBESON Story. A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Trombone Shorty and 5 o'clock Band. Legend Joe LOUIS. (ANDREWS) Sonny's Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny ROLLINS Finds His Groove. She Loved Baseball: The Effa MANLEY Rise: From Caged Bird to Poet of the Story. People, Maya ANGELOU. In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta SAVAGE. Follow Chester: A College Football Team Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Fights Racism and Makes History. (PIERCE) ARMSTRONG Becomes the First Lady of By and By: Charles TINDLEY, the Father of Jazz. Gospel Music. Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie ROBINSON. Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis It Jes' Happened: When Bill TRAYLOR ARMSTRONG. Started to Draw. Major TAYLOR, Champion Cyclist. Take a Picture of Me, James VAN DER ZEE! continued on next page Black Creators Nonfiction and Biographies

Biographies: Politics Biographies: Politics & Activism, & Activism, 17th-19th Century 20th-21st Century

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior DOUGLASS, A Monumental American Man. to . (BEALS)

Mumbet's Declaration of Freedom. This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in (FREEMAN) the Fight for School Equality. (BOYCE)

Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann GRANDERSON Through My Eyes. (BRIDGES) and Her Secret School. : Twice Towards Justice. Never Caught, the Story of Ona JUDGE: George and Martha Washington's Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia GILMORE Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away. Sustained the .

Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim KEY The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Taught the World About Kindness. Audrey Faye HENDRICKS, a Young Civil Rights Activist. A Spy Called James: The True Story of James LAFAYETTE, Revolutionary War Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song. Double Agent. (KING) Hammering for Freedom: William LEWIS Coretta Scott. (KING) Story. in the Lead: A Story of the Civil The Amazing Age of John Roy LYNCH. Rights Movement. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Someday is Now: Clara LUPER and the Girl. (LYONS) 1958 Sit-ins. Searching for Sarah RECTOR: The Richest The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Black Girl in America. Ground-breaking Journalist Ethel L. PAYNE. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Yes, We Can: A Biography of Barack Life of Bass REEVES, Deputy U.S. Marshall. OBAMA. Sojourner TRUTH's Step-Stomp Stride. Michelle. (OBAMA) Moses: When Harriet TUBMAN Led Her : My Story. People to Freedom. Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963. Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. (ROBINSON) WASHINGTON. SCHOMBURG: The Man Who Built a Library. Phillis's Big Test. (WHEATLEY) Howard THURMAN's Great Hope. Carter Reads the Newspaper. (WOODSON) The Oldest Student: How Mary WALKER Learned to Read. Ida B. WELLS: Let the Truth be Told.

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