October 2010
Booklists · America, I Am: The African-American Imprint
Africa - Culture and Trade
Africa is not a country
Grades 1-4
Look what came from Africa
Grades 4-8
Africa
Grades 3-6
Kings, gods & spirits from African mythology
Grades 3-6
The village that vanished
Grades 2-6
Traditional Africa
Grades 6-1-
Enslavement
Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba McKissack
Grades 5-8
The captive
Grades 5-8
The slave trade
Grades 3-4
Life on an African slave ship
Grades 5 & up
Good fortune
Grades 3-6
The Amistad mutiny: fighting for freedom
Grades 3-6
Pre Civil War
Slavery and resistance
Grades 5-8
Slavery: the struggle for freedom
Grades 3-6
I want to be free
Grades K-4
Night running: how James escaped with the help of his faithful dog ; based on a true story
Grades 2-4
Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride
Grades K-3
The listeners Whelan, Gloria, gr. 2-4
Grades 2-4
Henry's freedom box
Grades 2-5
Freedom ship Rappaport
Grades K-6
Alec's primerWalter, Mildred Pitts
Grades 1-4
Civil War
Alec's primer
Grades 1-4
Li'l Dan, the drummer boy: a Civil War story
Grades K-4
Numbering all the bones
Grades 7-10
Silent thunder: a Civil War story
Grades 5-9
Abraham's battle: a novel of Gettysburg
Grades 4-7
Friend on freedom river
Grades 3-5
Post Civil War
Horace King: bridges to freedom
Grades 5-8
The land
Grades 7-10
Virgie goes to school with us boys
Grades 1-4
The heart calls home
Grades 6-10
The blue and the gray
Grades 1-5
Juneteenth
Grades K-1
Pappy's handkerchief
Grades 2-4
Papa's mark
Grades 1-5
Jim Crow Era
Finding Lincoln
Grades 1-3
Ida B. Wells: let the truth be told
Grades 3-6
Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Grades 8-12
Making their mark
Grades 3-6
Back of the bus
Grades 2-4
Grandmama's pride
Grades K-4
Just like Josh Gibson
Ages 5-8
The Negro speaks of rivers
Grades 3-6
My people
Ages 4-8
When Louis Armstrong taught me scat
Grades K-4
Bessie Smith and the night riders
Grades 2-5
Jazzy Miz Mozetta
Ages 4-8
Sweet music in Harlem
Grades 1-3
Spirituality/Religion
Hush harbor: praying in secret Evans
Grades 2-4
The hat that wore Clara B
Grades K-3
Stitchin' and pullin': a Gee's Bend quilt
Grades 1-5
The Beatitudes: from slavery to civil rights
Grades 1-6
Who will I be, Lord?
Ages 4-8
Rock of ages: a tribute to the Black church
Grades 2-6
Lift every voice and sing
Ages 4-9
Military
The Tuskegee airmen
Grades 3-6
The Black soldier: 1492 to the present
Grades 6-10
The buffalo soldier
Grades 3-6
Hold the flag high
Grades 3-6
Black and white airmen : their true history
Grades 6 and up
The Tuskegee Airmen story
Grades K-3
Civil Rights
Howard Thurman's great hope
Grades 2-5
We troubled the waters: poems
Grades 3-6
Birmingham Sunday
Grades 3-6
A thousand never evers
Grades 5-8
Freedom on the menu: the Greensboro sit-ins
Grades K-4
Breaking the Barrier
100 African Americans: who changed American history
Grades 6 and up
The hallelujah flight Bildner
Grades K-3
The little piano girl
Grades 1-5
Joe Louis, my champion
Grades K-4
Sweet land of liberty
Grades K-4
Willie and the All-Stars
Grades 1-4
Contemporary Achievements
Long shot: never too small to dream big
Grades 1-4
Oprah : the little speaker Weatherford
Grades 4-8
Words to my life's song
Grades 4-8
Muhammad Ali: the people's champion
Grades 2-4
One million men and me
Grades K-2
A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
Grades 3-5
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