BLACK HISTORY - Biographies

BIOGRAPHIES TO CELEBRATE, LEARN, HONOR BLACK HISTORY, BLACK AUTHORS, BLACK LIVES!!

Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks By Suzanne Slade, Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Suzanne Slade, Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781419734113
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Published: Abrams Books for Young Readers - April 7th, 2020

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) By Patricia Hruby Powell, Christian Robinson (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781452103143
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Published: Chronicle Books - January 14th, 2014

Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations By Kelly Starling Lyons, Keith Mallett (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525516095
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 6th, 2019

100 African Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series) By Chrisanne Beckner, Briana Arrington-Dengoue (Illustrator) Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9780912517186
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Published: Sourcebooks Explore - November 1st, 1995

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement By Willie Mae Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374390235
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - January 3rd, 2023

Colin Powell: It Can Be Done! By Mike Strong Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780736895293
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Published: Red Bricklearning - January 1st, 2002

Who Was Jackie Robinson? (Who Was?) By Gail Herman, Who HQ, John O'Brien (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Gail Herman, Who HQ, John O'Brien (Illustrator)
$6.99
ISBN: 9780448455570
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Published: Penguin Workshop - December 23rd, 2010

The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy By Kekla Magoon, Laura Freeman (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kekla Magoon, Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780062912510
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Published: Quill Tree Books - January 5th, 2021

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir By Nikki Grimes Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781635925623
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Published: Wordsong - March 1st, 2022

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice By Nikki Grimes, Laura Freeman (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Nikki Grimes, Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9781534462670
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - August 25th, 2020

Who Was Bob Marley? (Who Was?) By Katie Ellison, Who HQ, Gregory Copeland (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780448489193
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Published: Penguin Workshop - June 6th, 2017

Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson? (Who Was?) By Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ, Manuel Gutierrez (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780399544361
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Published: Penguin Workshop - June 1st, 2021

Who Is RuPaul? (Who Was?) By Nico Medina, Who HQ, Andrew Thomson (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Nico Medina, Who HQ, Andrew Thomson (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780593222690
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Published: Penguin Workshop - May 11th, 2021

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? (Who Was?) By Bonnie Bader, Who HQ, Elizabeth Wolf (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Bonnie Bader, Who HQ, Elizabeth Wolf (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780448447230
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Published: Penguin Workshop - December 27th, 2007

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl By Tonya Bolden Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781419716263
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Published: Abrams Books for Young Readers - March 17th, 2015

The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World By The Staff of The Undefeated, Robert Ball (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780358668053
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Published: Clarion Books - December 21st, 2021

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace By Ashley Bryan, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Ashley Bryan, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9781534404908
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Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 15th, 2019

Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs By Mary E. Lyons Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780689878688
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - January 6th, 2009

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice By Bryan Stevenson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525580065
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Published: Ember - September 10th, 2019

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition) By Kamala Harris Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593113172
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Published: Penguin Books - October 13th, 2020

We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success By Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525474074
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Published: Dutton Children's Books - April 21st, 2005

The Frederick Douglass You Never Knew By James Lincoln Collier Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780516258379
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Published: Children's Press(CT) - March 1st, 2004

Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock By Melba Pattillo Beals Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780671866396
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Published: Washington Square Press - February 1st, 1995

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) By Andrea Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Andrea Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781423142577
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 23rd, 2012

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780761361695
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Published: Carolrhoda Lab (TM) - January 1st, 2012

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother By James McBride Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781594481925
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 7th, 2006

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition By Margot Lee Shetterly Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780062662378
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Published: HarperCollins - November 29th, 2016

Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur By Michael Eric Dyson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780465017287
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Published: Civitas Books - September 5th, 2006

Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

Black Boy By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
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ISBN: 9780061130243
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - March 27th, 2007

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir By Ursula Burns Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062879295
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Published: Amistad - June 15th, 2021

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake By Tiya Miles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781984855015
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 1st, 2022