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Black History Month: Continuing the Celebration

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans. The books on this list recognize their central role in U.S. history and culture.

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Showing 1-48 of 122 book results from the CRL "Black History Month: Continuing the Celebration".

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Undefeated, The

The Undefeated

by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson

50+ Resources22 Awards

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

50+ Resources16 Awards

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Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

40+ Resources7 Awards

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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

by Javaka Steptoe

40+ Resources13 Awards

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez

40+ Resources12 Awards

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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

by Kadir Nelson

40+ Resources14 Awards

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Rosa

Rosa

by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier

35+ Resources6 Awards

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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

by Kadir Nelson

35+ Resources11 Awards

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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie

35+ Resources7 Awards

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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

30+ Resources4 Awards

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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

30+ Resources2 Awards

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Splash of Red, A: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet

30+ Resources9 Awards

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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrison

30+ Resources7 Awards

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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

30+ Resources11 Awards

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson

25+ Resources5 Awards

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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick

25+ Resources7 Awards

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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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Nation's Hope, A: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

by Matt de la Peña and Kadir Nelson

25+ Resources5 Awards

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Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers

Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers

by Tanya Lee Stone

25+ Resources10 Awards

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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford

25+ Resources4 Awards

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Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

by Nikki Grimes and Bryan Collier

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I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kadir Nelson

25+ Resources5 Awards

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Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

25+ Resources6 Awards

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My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

25+ Resources6 Awards

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Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride

Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

25+ Resources2 Awards

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Voices from the March on Washington

Voices from the March on Washington

by J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon

25+ Resources3 Awards

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Youngest Marcher, The: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton

25+ Resources4 Awards

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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz

25+ Resources3 Awards

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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie

25+ Resources7 Awards

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Dear Benjamin Banneker

Dear Benjamin Banneker

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

25+ Resources2 Awards

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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

by Jabari Asim and Bryan Collier

25+ Resources3 Awards

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Firebird

Firebird

by Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers

25+ Resources7 Awards

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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Russell Freedman

20+ Resources10 Awards

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Henry Aaron's Dream

Henry Aaron's Dream

by Matt Tavares

20+ Resources2 Awards

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Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy

Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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I, Too, Am America

I, Too, Am America

by Langston Hughes and Bryan Collier

20+ Resources3 Awards

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Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

by Charles R. Smith, Jr. and Bryan Collier

20+ Resources2 Awards

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Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation

Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

20+ Resources

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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jamey Christoph

20+ Resources3 Awards

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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom

by Gary D. Schmidt and Daniel Minter

20+ Resources4 Awards

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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn

20+ Resources4 Awards

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Negro Speaks of Rivers, The

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

by Langston Hughes and E.B. Lewis

20+ Resources2 Awards

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Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

20+ Resources2 Awards

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Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

20+ Resources1 Awards

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Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America

Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America

by Russell Freedman

20+ Resources7 Awards

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Harlem Hellfighters

Harlem Hellfighters

by J. Patrick Lewis and Gary Kelley

20+ Resources6 Awards

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Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Raúl Colón

20+ Resources1 Awards

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Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune

by Eloise Greenfield and Jerry Pinkney

20+ Resources1 Awards

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