People & Places - United States - African American & Black
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So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe celebrated author of Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Nell Plants a Tree and a Caldecott Honor artist come together for a poetic picture book introduction to Juneteenth and its origin.
Oh, how you woul
- Author: Wynter, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063081148
- Language: English
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Inventions to Count On: A Celebration of Black Inventors: A Picture Book
$18.99 Add to cartFrom forgotten innovators like Anna M. Mangin to well-known inventors like James West, this picture book is a celebration of Black history and inventors with a unique counting rhyme
One heater keeps- Author: Miroballi, Dana Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1419769960
- Language: English
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Who Was Booker T. Washington?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn how a slave became one of the leading influential African American intellectuals of the late 19th century.
African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United Sta- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0448488515
- Language: English
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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
$20.95 Read moreThe killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These chil
- Author: Mayer, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384373
- Language: English
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Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)
$18.99 Add to cartA poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of Brown: The Many Shades of Love
What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She- Author: James, Nancy Johnson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1951836537
- Language: English
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Black Joy: Love Yourself, Love Your Culture
$18.99 Add to cartFollow a day in the life of a young Black child and learn the different ways we experience love every day with this striking, illustrated children’s book.
Created in 1993, Black Love Day is celebrated- Author: Gordon, Charnaie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0760394393
- Language: English
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What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice
$19.99 Add to cart“Lorraine Hansberry has had a direct influence on who we are, the stories we tell, and how we move in the world today. We are beyond delighted to share Jay’s beautiful words and Loveis’s stunning work
- Author: Leslie, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1638930694
- Language: English
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El Proyecto 1619: Nacieron Sobre El Agua
$18.99 Add to cartCuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un ?rbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atr?s, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 a?os, en 1… [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593625048
- Language: Spanish
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Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!
$19.99 Add to cartCivil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hoose–author of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice–to tell her gr
- Author: Colvin, Claudette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 037438973X
- Language: English
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Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
$18.99 Read morePublished in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discover over fifty remarkable African American women whose unique skills and contributions pav… [more below]
- Author: Hudson, Cheryl Willis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525645810
- Language: English
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
$8.99 Add to cartIn this Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chap… [more below]
- Author: Shelton, Paula Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0385376065
- Language: English
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Hey Black Child
$18.99 Read moreSix-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins.
Hey black child,- Author: Perkins, Useni Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0316360309
- Language: English
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Freedom in Congo Square
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: Nonfiction
Starred reviews from School Library Journa- Author: Boston Weatherford, Carole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 1499801033
- Language: English
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Swinging Into History: Toni Stone: Big-League Baseball’s First Woman Player
$18.99 Add to cartYoung readers will root for Toni “Tomboy” Stone, the first woman (and the first Black woman) to break into professional baseball–taking over Hank Aaron’s roster spot–in this nonfiction picture book … [more below]
- Author: Swanson, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1635928133
- Language: English
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
$19.99 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America’s past and our nation’s attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War’s conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.
T… [more below]
- Author: Gates Jr, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1338262041
- Language: English
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Vision of Beauty: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
$5.99 Add to cart“This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
An inspiring biograp- Series: Candlewick Biographies
- Author: Lasky, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0763660922
- Language: English
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To Be a Slave
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book
What was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United State- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Lester, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0141310014
- Language: English
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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
$18.99 Read more“Beals’ recollection of white oppression and her rise above it will haunt readers. A must-read for teens.” –School Library Journal
From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-co
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1328882128
- Language: English
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Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
$12.99 Read morePublished in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discover over 50 remarkable Black women whose unique skills and contributions paved the way for… [more below]
- Author: Hudson, Cheryl Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0525645845
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny
$18.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: the New York Times bestselling book of inspirational advice and wisdom for young women from the powerhouse public speaker, star of CSI: NY, and bestselling author of Letters to a You… [more below]
- Author: Harper, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404596
- Language: English
