Picture Book. By Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Frank Morrison. 2023. 40 pages.
The story of eighth grader MacNolia Cox, the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee, and the racism she faced during her journey to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
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Picture Book. By Tameka Fryer Brown. Illustrated by Nikkolas Smith. 2023. 40 pages.
Learn about the history of the Confederate flag, the myths and the reality, through the story of two young girls.
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Picture book. By Mark Melnicove and Margy Burns Knight, and illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien. 2022. 48 pages.
Updated to include new information and illustrations, this book counters stereotypes and celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the African continent.
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Picture book. Written by Traci Huahn and illustrated by Michelle Jing Chan. 2024. 40 pages.
This picture book tells the true story of a fight for access to public education by an 8-year-old Chinese-American girl, Mamie Tape, and her parents.
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Picture book. By María Dolores Águila and illustrated by Magdalena Mora. 2024. 40 pages.
The true story of how community members organized a massive protest in 1970, forcing the city council to change its plans.
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Picture book. By Shana Keller and illustrated by Laura Freeman. 2024. 40 pages.
Helps introduce young readers to the history of African American family members desperately trying to find their children, spouses, siblings, parents, and other loved ones during Reconstruction.
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Picture book. By Traci Sorell, and illustrated by Frane Lessac. 2021. 40 pages.
Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life.
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Picture book. By Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome. 2024. 40 pages.
Shows how one enslaved man, secretly named Teach, helps others learn to read and write wherever he can.
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Picture book. By Don Brown. 2004. 32 pages.
The story of the 1899 strike by the children who sold newspapers on the street for grades K-4.
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Picture book. By Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta. Illustrated by Andre Sibayan. 2018.
The first nonfiction illustrated Filipino-American history book for children tells the story of labor activist Larry Itliong, who organized farmworkers on the West Coast in the mid-20th century.
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Picture book. By Diana Cohn and illustrated by Francisco Delgado. 2008. 31 pages.
A children's book based on the true story of the Justice for Janitors strike.
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Picture book. By Calvin Alexander Ramsey with Gwen Strauss. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. 2010. 32 pages.
Story for young readers about an African American family travelling during the Jim Crow era and the networks of support and services listed in The Green Book.
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Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez. 2017. 48 pages.
This picture book is a tribute to Arturo Schomburg, the Afro Puerto Rican historian collector and activist who chronicled the Black history of the Diaspora.
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Picture book. By Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin. Illustrated by Eric Velasquez. 2013.
Story of John Price's escape to freedom with the help of the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue.
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Picture book. By Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli , and illustrated by Isabel Roxas. 2021. 38 pages.
This read-aloud board book on race offers the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.
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Picture book. By Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell, and illustrated by David Wilkerson. 2026. 40 pages.
A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience.
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Book — Historical non-fiction. By Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Y. Green, and illustrated by Kim Holt. 2025. 36 pages.
The story of Samuel Wilbert Tucker, who organized a sit-in and subsequent court cases to challenge the exclusion of African Americans from public libraries.
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Book — Historical non-fiction. By Christy Mihaly, with illustrations by Mariona Cabassa. 2026. 56 pages.
An inspiring picture book biography of a UN Peace Medal recipient who used his songs — and his silence — to fight fascism, oppression, and violence.
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Picture book. By Jonah Winter, with illustrations by Nancy Carpenter.2020. 40 pages.
The story of Mary “Mother” Jones and the 100 children who marched from Philadelphia to New York in a fiery protest against child labor.
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Picture book. By Michelle Duster, with illustrations by Laura Freeman. 2022. 40 pages.
An inspiring picture book biography of the groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.
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Picture book. By Patrice Lawrence. Illustrated by Camilla Sucre. 2025. 40 pp.
The book's young protagonist learns from her beloved grandmother about the Windrush generation in England.
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Picture Book. By Selene Castrovilla, illustrated by Erin K. Robinson. 2026. 80 pages.
The story of Henrietta Wood, who was enslaved twice — but who demanded justice and was awarded the largest reparations ever granted for enslavement.
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Picture book. By Kesha L. Grant, with illustrations by Anastasia Magloire Williams. 2026. 48 pages.
Tells the story of James Forten, who served in the American Revolution and then dedicated his life to fighting for the ideals set forth by the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.”
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Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 2022. 40 pages.
The story of Mary Hamilton, whose 1964 Supreme Court case led to the ruling that all people in court should be referred to with honorifics.
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Picture book. By Livia Blackburne, with illustrations by Nicole Xu. 2025. 40 pages.
Tells the story of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre in which nearly 20 Chinese men were killed, their dreams turned to ashes.
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