African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- Who is Muhammad Ali?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi
- Lizzo, breakout artist, Lakita Wilson
- Von Miller, Jon M. Fishman
- A picture book of Jesse Owens, David Adler ; illustrated by Robert Casilla
- Ida Wells, journalist and activist, by Duchess Harris, JD, PHD ; with Samantha S. Bell
- Baseball's leading lady, Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues, Andrea Williams
- A song for the unsung, Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington, by Carole Boston Wetherford & Rob Sanders ; illustrated by Byron McCray
- Oprah Winfrey, a twentieth-century life, by Ilene Cooper
- Spike Lee, by Joyce Markovics and Alrick A. Brown
- Paul Robeson, no one can silence me, Martin Duberman ; foreword by Jason Reynolds
- Martin's Big words, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Brian Collier
- Matthew Henson & Robert Peary, the race for the North Pole
- A quantum life, my unlikely journey from the street to the stars, Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
- Dorothy Height, written by Kelly Starling Lyons ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Robert Casilla
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr., Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- Flying high, the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles, Michelle Meadows ; illustrated by Ebony Glenn
- Shirley Chisholm dared, the story of the first black woman in congress, written by Alicia D. Williams ; illustrated by April Harrison
- Julius Erving, Norman L. Macht
- Frederick Douglass, by William S. McFeely
- Crispus Attucks, Black leader of colonial patriots, by Dharathula H. Millender ; illustrated by Gray Morrow
- Who is Shaquille O'Neal?, by Ellen Labrecque ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Fairclough
- Jackie Robinson, young sports trailblazer, by Herb Dunn ; illustrated by Meryl Henderson
- Don't let them bury my story, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre in her own words, Viola Ford Fletcher
- Katherine Dunham, Black dancer, by Carol Greene
- Satchel Paige, Lesa Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Ruby Bridges, written by Kekla Magoon ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Born to swing, Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz, Mara Rockliff ; illustrated by Michele Wood
- Escape North!, the story of Harriet Tubman, by Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Teresa Flavin
- The stone thrower, Jael Ealey Richardson ; pictures by Matt James
- Jackie Robinson, strong inside and out, by the editors of Time for Kids and Denise Lewis Patrick
- Harriet Tubman, M.W. Taylor ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Hidden figures, the true story of four black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Wilma Rudolph, the greatest woman sprinter in history, Anne Schraff
- Who is Michelle Obama?, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- How do you spell unfair?, MacNolia Cox and the national spelling bee, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Ray Charles, young musician, by Susan Sloate ; [illustrated by Meryl Henderson]
- Saving American Beach, the biography of African American environmentalist MaVynee Betsch, written by Heidi Tyline King ; illustrated by Caldecott honoree Ekua Holmes
- The dragons, the giant, the women, a memoir, WayƩtu Moore
- Rosa Parks, my story, by Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins
- Claudette Colvin, twice toward justice, by Phillip Hoose
- Civil rights leaders, edited by Rick Rennert
- On my own at 107, reflections on life without Bessie, Sarah L. Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
- Harriet Tubman, by Wil Mara
- Toni Morrison, a biography of a nobel prize-winning writer, by Barbara Kramer
- Barbara Jordan, Lucia Raatma
- Singled out, the true story of Glenn Burke, Andrew Maraniss
- Jackie Robinson, baseball's first Black major leaguer, by Carol Greene
- Malcolm X, by Theresa Crushshon
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