Brassy, smokey, melodious. There's nothing like the saxophone. This incredible work from the awar...

Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free or cost them every...

Freedom to Read

In the 1890s, Ida B. Wells documented the horrific lynchings of African-Americans and revealed th...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWhen...

This picture-book biography profiles the first African American to pitch in a major league world ...

'The young man known as Teach secretly learned to read, write, and use numbers growing up alongsi...

'The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the...

A boy discovers his passion for dance and becomes a modern hero in this inspiring picture book bi...

'John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights [when] he was only a...

Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman broke the color barrier in entertainment when they formed the Benn...

Ruth Ellen's odyssey on the New York Bound Silver Meteor is the start of a new life up North that...

Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.

Thefinal novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from CorettaScott King Author Honore...

How did a poor boy named Edson-who kicked rocks down roads and dribbled balls made from rags-go o...

This powerful and inspiring collection features 21 female trailblazers in their sport, perfect fo...

From the acclaimed husband-and-wife team who created 'Satchel Paige' comes this biography of a tr...

From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the...

The inspiring story of Ethel Payne, a groundbreaking African American journalist known as the Fir...

Who was Harriet Tubman before she was Harriet?We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lif...

A companion novel to Finding Langston, recipient of a Coretta Scott King Writing Honor and winner...

A companion novel to Finding Langston, recipient of a Coretta Scott King Writing Honor and winner...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWhen...

'A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New ...

'An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful hist...

The final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Lesa Cline-Ransome.

Some say Leroy Paige was born with his right fist curled around a baseball. By the age of ten he ...

He was born 'black, poor, and lucky.' The glowing story of 'Satchmo'-the great jazz musician, Lou...

'An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful hist...

An evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Corett...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boige...

'The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beg...

Venus and Serena Williams are two of the greatest tennis players of all time. Before they were wo...

'Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman...

He was born 'Black, poor, and lucky.' The glowing story of 'Satchmo'—the great jazz musician, Lou...

This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent...

An enslaved mother and daughter learn to read in spite of great danger in this beautiful testamen...

From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the...

A Newbery Honor Book Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them fr...

With a spare, moving first-person narration told in an era-appropriate dialect, complemented by s...

When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his f...