The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander

2010 ★ 4.1

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

2016 ★ 3.9

Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945 ★ 4.1

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

2017 ★ 4.6

Leon's Story (Sunburst Books)

Leon Walter Tillage

2000 ★ 4.3

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

1992

Nigger

Dick Gregory

1990

Home

Toni Morrison

2012 ★ 4.0

Where do we go from here

Martin Luther King Jr.

1967

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice

Phillip M. Hoose

2009

Stella by starlight

Sharon M. Draper

2015

Golem

David Wisniewski

1996 ★ 4.3

Sundown Towns

James W. Loewen

2005

The strange career of Jim Crow

C. Vann Woodward

1966

Letter from the Birmingham jail

Martin Luther King Jr., Dion Graham

1963 ★ 4.5

No Easy Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela, Barry Denenberg

1965

I am Rosa Parks

Wil Clay, James Haskins, Rosa Parks

1997

Stride toward freedom

Martin Luther King Jr.

1958

Sit-in

Andrea Davis Pinkney

2010

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander

2019

White socks only

Evelyn Coleman, Tyrone Geter

1999

Freedom Walkers

Russell Freedman

2006

Richard Wright and the library card

R. Gregory Christie, William Miller, Illustrated by Gregory Christie

1997

Silver people

Margarita Engle

2014

Glory be

Augusta Scattergood

2012

The Big Sort

Bill Bishop

2008

The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues

Walter Dean Myers

2001

Hitler's American Model

James Q. Whitman

2017

The Man Who Cried I Am

John Alfred Williams

1967

Belle Teal

Ann M. Martin

2001