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Also provided are links to resources from museums, archives, libraries and colleges who have digitized parts of their collections for the history-loving individuals to view online. Feel free to share the recommended resources to discuss with other members of your family and friends to add to the conversation of our history. Pre-School to 2nd Grade More than Anything Else by Marie Bradby White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman Rosa by Nikki Giovanni Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard One Million Men and Me by Kelly S. Lyons Black Cowboy, Wild Horses by Julius Lester Change Has Come by Kadir Nelson Satchel Paige by Lesa Cline-Ransome Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom by Tim Tingle The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights by Carole B. Weatherford Grades 3 to 5th Through my Eyes by Ruby Bridges Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz...by Stephanie Stein Crease One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Baraka Obama Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Pinkney When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heros in the Old West by Lilian Schlissel Ben and the Emmancipation Proclamation by Pat Sherman Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr. Grades 6 to 8th They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Marichta: A Nineteenth Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden Black Canary by Jane Louis Curry The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis A Wish After Midnight by Zeta Elliott Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Black Hands, White Sails by Patricia and Fred McKissack I, Dred Scott by Sheila Moses 47 by Walter Mosley Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Noose Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children...by Elisabeth Partridge All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Pinkney Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith Lest We Forget:...by Velma Maia Thomas Grades 9 to 12th The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation..by M.T. Anderson Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery...by Marc Aronson The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Cause: Reconstruction America 1863-1877 by Tonya Bolden Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis Cooper Sun by Sharon M. Draper A Walk Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones Property by Valerie Martin Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam by Tony Medina The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore A Mercy by Toni Morrison Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers A Wreath For Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of Slave Potter Dave by Leonard Todd Digitzed Archives & Collections African American Mosiac from the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) AfriClassical: African Heritage in Classical Music [American] Revolution's Black Soliders Amistad Digital Resource from Columbia University (NY) Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century from the New York Public Library (NYPL) Forever Free from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (Washington D.C.) Malcolm X Project from Columbia University (NY) Say it Plain, Say it Loud from American Radioworks (MN) The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database from Emory University (GA) Of Interest: The Green Book--a pre World War II Travel Guide for African American Lodging. |
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