ANTIRACISM AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ​ ​ ​ *ACD also available B = Biography G = Graphic Novel KIDS JP (picture book) FIC The Big Umbrella Amy June Bates (2018) ​ Lil’ Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story by Romare Bearden (2003) Whoever You Are by Mem Fox (1997) ​ When Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes (2007) Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton (1995) I Just Want to Say Good Night by Rachel Isadora (2017) Quit Calling Me a Monster! by Jory John and Bob Shea (2016) ​ Hi Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats (1999) ​ ​ Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats (2001) Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats (1998) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962) ​ John Henry by Julius Lester (1994) Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine (2007) Daisy and the Doll by Michael Madearis (2000) Rhyme Time Valentine by Nancy Poydar (2003) D Is For Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet by Nancy I. Sanders (2007) Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stephens (1995) The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (2018) ​ JP (picture book) NONFICTION The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (2018) ​ Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton (2016) B She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton (2017) Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Adama Denise (2019) B George Washington Carver by Vicky Franchino (2002) B Superheroes are Everywhere by Kamala Harris (2019) B Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham (2018) ​ The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard (2020) B Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (2005) ​ I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Walter Dean Myers (2004) B Hands Around the World: 365 Creative Ways to build Cultural Awareness and Global Respect by Susan Milord ​ (1992) Jackie Robinson by Lucia Raatma (2001) B Harriet Tubman by Dana Meacham Rau (2001) B A Place to Land by Barry Wittenstein (2019) J FIC The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (2014) ​ Chains: Seeds of America #1 by Laurie Halse Anderson (2008) Forge: Seeds of America #2 by Laurie Halse Anderson (2010) Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden (2019) So Done by Paula Chase (2018) New Kid by Jerry Craft (2019) G ​ Francie by Karen English (1999) ​ Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (2020) The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues by Walter Dean Myers (2001) Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen (2003) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (1997) Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2018) ​ P.S. Be Eleven by Robin Williams-Garcia (2013) ​ Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (2020) J & YA NONFICTION A Child’s Introduction to African American History by Jabari Asim (2018) ​ They Had a Dream: the Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X by Jules Archer (1993) Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (2015) G Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (2006) The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2004) Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad by Joyce Hansen (2003) Sojourner Truth by Elizabeth Dana Jaffe (2001) This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell (2020) ​ Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough (2010) Heart and Soul: the Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (2011) ​ Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (2001) B The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and The Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheridan (2014) Courage Has No Color: the True Story of the Triple Nickels: America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone (2013) Astrophysics for Young People in A Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (2019) Voice of Freedom: Fanny Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford (2015) B Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014) B ​ YA Lunch Box Dream by Tony Abbott (2011) The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018) ​ Color Me In by Natasha Diaz (2019) ​ Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper (2001) Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi (2020) ​ I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones (2019) ​ Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2013) Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks (2019) G The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) ​ On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (2019) ​ Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson (2018) ​ Feathers by Jaqueline Woodson (2007)* ​ Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson (2018) ​ If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (1998) ​ ADULT - NONFICTION Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1963) ​ Famous Black Quotations edited by Janet Cheatham Bell (1995) A Slave No More by David Blight (2009) United by Cory Booker (2016) Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley (2000) B At Caanan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968 by Taylor Branch (1988)*ACD ONLY Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1963-1965 by Taylor Branch (1988) Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (2015) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) B* ​ We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017) B* ​ The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis (2014) White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018) ​ Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass B ​ Reconstruction by Eric Foner (1988) ​ The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High Performing Teams by Pamala Fuller & Mark Murphy with Anne Chow (FranklinCovey) (2020) ​ The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2008) The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris (2019) Remembering Malcom by Benjamin Kareem (1992) How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi (2019) ​ March: Book One by John Lewis (2015) B G ​ March: Book Two by John Lewis (2015) B G ​ March: Book Three by John Lewis (2016) B G ​ Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall B Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995) B* ​ The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (2007) B A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020) B Becoming by Michelle Obama (2019) B* ​ Making All Black Lives Matter by Barbara Ransby (2018) ​ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010) Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2014) ​ Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle For Black Equality in America by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (2012) Jazz: A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns (2000) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (2010) A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1980) ​ ADULT - FICTION Maya Angelou Black Buck (2020) by Mateo Askaripour ​ ​ ​ ​ James Baldwin Amiri Baraka Cynthia Bond The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019) ​ ​ ​ Ralph Ellison Zora Neal Hurston A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (2016) ​ ​ ​ Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (2019) ​ ​ Edward P. Jones Tayari Jones Ayana Mathis Dinaw Mengestu Deacon King Kong by James McBride (2020) ​ ​ ​ The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (2013) ​ ​ ​ Toni Morrison Walter Mosley The Kid by Sapphire (2011) ​ ​ ​ Push by Sapphire (1996) ​ ​ ​ Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2011) ​ ​ ​ Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2019) ​ ​ ​ Dorothy West The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) ​ ​ ​ Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (2009) ​ ​ ​ The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) ​ ​ ​ Richard Wright AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS Kwame Alexander, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Cynthia Bond, Cory Booker, ​ ​ ​ ​ Mare Bradby, Paula Chase, Ben Carson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Helene Cooper, Bill Cosby, Jerry Craft, Frederick ​ ​ Douglass, Sharon M. Draper, Karen English, Ralph Ellison, Richard Thompson Ford, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nikki ​ ​ Grimes, Virginia Hamilton, Joyce Hansen, Kamala Harris, Zora Neal Hurston, Marlon James, Katherine Johnson, ​ ​ Edward P. Jones, Kimberly Jones, Tayari Jones, Ibrahim Kendi, Julius Lester, John Lewis, Ayana Mathis, Dinaw ​ ​ ​ ​ Mengestu, James McBride, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Walter Dean Myers, Jerdine Nolen, Barack Obama, ​ Michelle Obama, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Sapphire, Bryan Stevenson, Angie Thomas, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Jesmyn ​ ​ ​ Ward, Renee Watson, Dorothy West, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Richard Wright ​ ​ ​ ​ DVDS Ali (2002), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1973) BlackKKlansman (2018), Do the Right Thing (1989), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Fences (2017), Freedomland (2006), Get Out (2017), Glory Road (2006), Green Book (2018), Guess Who’s ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Coming to Dinner (1967), Harriet (2020), The Hate U Give (2018), I am Not Your Negro (2017), If Beale Street ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Could Talk (2019), Just Mercy (2020), The Long Walk Home (2003), Loving (2017), Moonlight (2016), Race ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (2016), Ruby Bridges (2004), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Selma (2015), 12 Years a Slave (2013) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ .