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- 12 years a slave
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 28 days : moments in black history that changed the world / [ compact disc and book set ]
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A day in the life of a colonial sailmaker
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Jackie Robinson
- A picture book of Jesse Owens
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Rosa Parks [sound recording]/
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African American healers
- African American lives
- African American lives, 2
- African American musicians
- African American religious leaders
- African American women scientists and inventors
- African-American social leaders and activists
- All aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- Amar'e Stoudemire
- American tapestry : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- American tapestry: : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- Amos Fortune, free man
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Arthur Ashe : athlete and activist
- As Good as Anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march towards freedom
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Ballerina dreams : from orphan to dancer
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : an American story
- Barbara Jordan : African American politician
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Before she was Harriet .[ compact disc and book set ]/
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Davis, Jr.
- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Bigmama's
- Black & white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
- Black abolitionists and freedom fighters
- Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
- Black history : a retrospective
- Black history : more than just a month
- Black stars in orbit : NASA's African-American astronauts
- Black stars of colonial and revolutionary times
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers: : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- By my brother's side
- Carter G. Woodson : Black history pioneer
- Carter G. Woodson : the father of Black history
- Carter reads the newspaper [Release date Feb. 1, 2019]
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Charles Chesnutt
- Chasing space
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Civil rights : the struggle for Black equality
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
- Colin Powell : general & statesman
- Compañeros de equipo
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Cornel West on Black prophetic fire
- Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Denmark Vesey
- Derrick Rose
- Discovering Black America : from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century
- Draw what you see : the life and art of Benny Andrews
- Dreams from my father
- Dreams from my father : [a story of race and inheritance]
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Duke Ellington
- El Día de Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Ella Baker : a leader behind the scenes
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Evander Holyfield : Campeon de los pesos pesados
- Extraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
- Extraordinary people of the civil rights movement
- Fannie Lou Hamer : from sharecropping to politics
- Find where the wind goes : moments from my life
- Five brave explorers
- Five brilliant scientists
- Frederick Douglass : a photo-illustrated biography
- Frederick Douglass : fighter against slavery
- Frederick's journey : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Gabby Douglas
- Gail Devers
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver : an innovative life
- George Washington Carver : nature's trailblazer
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George Washington Carver : the peanut scientist
- George Washington Carver : the peanut scientist
- George Washington Carver: : from slave to scientist
- Going back home : an artist returns to the South
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Great African American speeches : includes two bonus speeches by Nelson Mandela
- Great Black Americans : formerly titled Great American Negroes
- Growing up King : an intimate memoir
- Guion Bluford : a space biography
- Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
- Hank Aaron : brave in every way
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman and Black History Month
- Harriet Tubman and the freedom train
- Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves and free blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hoops with Swoopes
- Hurry freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California
- I have a dream : the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I've seen the promised land : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : a voice against violence
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : fighter for justice
- In search of our roots : [how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past]
- In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- In the Shadow of Liberty : the Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
- In the shadow of liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five Black lives
- In the shadow of liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee : super woman
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson : American hero
- Jackie Robinson : amazing athlete and activist
- Jackie Robinson : history's all-stars
- Jackie Robinson : strong inside and out
- Jackie Robinson : young sports trailblazer
- Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball
- Jackie Robinson plays ball
- Jackie's nine : Jackie Robinson's values to live by : courage, determination, teamwork, persistence, integrity, persistence [sic], commitment, excellence
- Jake makes a world : Jacob Lawrence, a young artist in Harlem
- Jesse Owens : "I always loved running"
- Jesse Owens : Olympic star
- Jesse Owens : fastest man alive
- Jesse Owens : legendary track star
- Jesse Owens : trailblazing sprinter
- Joe Louis : America's fighter
- Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber
- John Blair and the great Hinckley fire
- John Coltrane : a sound supreme
- John Coltrane : jazz revolutionary
- Josephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
- Jump back, Paul : the life and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Jump! : from the life of Michael Jordan
- Kickoff!
- King : a filmed record : Montgomery to Memphis
- Knockin' on wood : starring Peg Leg Bates
- Kobe Bryant : hard to the hoop
- Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes
- Lauryn Hill
- LeBron James
- LeBron James : NBA champion
- Lebron James : king on and off the court
- Lee sobre Martin Luther King, Jr. : Read about Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Lorraine Hansberry : playwright and voice of justice
- Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis Armstrong : king of jazz
- M.L.K. : journey of a King
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Madam C.J. Walker : inventor and millionaire
- Mae Jemison : out of this world
- Mahalia : a life in gospel music
- Mahalia Jackson : [gospel singer and civil rights champion]
- Major Taylor : champion cyclist
- Malcolm : the life of a man who changed Black America
- Malcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : another side of the movement
- Malcolm X : black rage
- Manchild in the promised land
- Manchild in the promised land
- March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world : -- and more stories about African American history
- Marian Anderson
- Marian Anderson : a great singer
- Marian Anderson : amazing opera singer
- Marion Jones : fast and fearless
- Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl
- Martin & Mahalia : his words, her song
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King Jr., on Leadership: : inspiration and wisdom for challenging times
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : a dream of hope
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : free at last
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : spirit-led prophet ; a biography
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Mary McLeod Bethune : a great teacher
- Mary McLeod Bethune : educator and activist
- Mary McLeod Bethune : woman of courage
- Matthew Henson
- Medgar Evers
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Jordan : a life above the rim
- Misty Copeland
- My Uncle Martin's big heart
- My brother Martin : a sister remembers : growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Nat Turner and the Virginia slave revolt
- Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson
- Nothing but trouble : the story of Althea Gibson
- On the court with-- Michael Jordan
- One more valley, one more hill : the story of Aunt Clara Brown
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth
- Our children can soar : a celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the pioneers of change
- Out of the blue
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson : a voice for change
- Paul Robeson, hero before his time
- Penny Hardaway
- Pierre Toussaint
- Portraits of African-American heroes
- Promises to keep : how Jackie Robinson changed America
- Proud : living my American dream
- Racing against the odds : the Story of Wendell Scott, stock car racing's African-American champion
- Ralph J. Bunche : peacemaker
- Randy Moss : first in flight
- Ray Charles
- Ray Charles
- Ray Charles and the birth of soul
- Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Romare Bearden : collage of memories
- Rookie : Tamika Whitmore's first year in the WNBA
- Roots : the 30th anniversary edition : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks : a photo-illustrated biography
- Rosa Parks : bus ride to freedom
- Rosa Parks : civil rights pioneer
- Rosa Parks : meet a civil rights hero
- Ruby Bridges
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Scientists, healers, and inventors : an introduction for young readers
- Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest Black girl in America
- Seven miles to freedom : the Robert Smalls story
- Shaquille O'Neal : gentle giant
- Shaquille O'Neal : giant on and off the court
- Shaquille O'Neal, center of attention
- Sisters : Venus and Serena Williams
- Slave narratives
- Sojourner Truth : a voice for freedom
- Sojourner Truth : path to glory
- Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride
- Sojourner truth : ain't I a woman?
- Song in a weary throat : memoir of an American pilgrimage
- Southern homecoming traditions : recipes and remembrances
- Spike Lee and the African American filmmakers : a choice of colors
- Stealing home : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Stevie Wonder
- Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
- Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup
- Streetcar to justice : how Elizabeth Jennings won the right to ride in New York
- Strong force : the story of physicist Shirley Ann Jackson
- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Take a picture of me, James Van Der Zee!
- Take a walk in their shoes
- Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman
- The Black Russian
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The March Against Fear : the last great walk of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Black power
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons and an unlikely road to manhood
- The butler : a witness to history
- The death and life of Malcolm X
- The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation
- The faith of Condoleezza Rice
- The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
- The girl with a mind for math : the story of Raye Montague. #3
- The groundbreaking, chance-taking life of George Washington Carver and science & invention in America
- The heart of a woman
- The legendary Miss Lena Horne
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
- The man from Essence : creating a magazine for black women
- The many faces of Josephine Baker : dancer, singer, activist, spy
- The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- The pact : three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream
- The pioneers : an introduction to African-American poets
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The story of Harriet Tubman
- The story of Muhammad Ali
- The story of Thurgood Marshall : justice for all
- The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire
- The trials of Muhammad Ali
- The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
- The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist
- There will be no miracles here
- There will be no miracles here : a memoir
- Thurgood Marshall : civil rights attorney and Supreme Court justice
- To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
- To the rescue! : Garrett Morgan underground
- Trailblazer : the story of ballerina Raven Wilkinson
- Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
- Un libro ilustrado sobre Martin Luther King, hijo
- Uncelebrated narratives from Black history
- Unchained memories : readings from the slave narratives
- Up from history : the life of Booker T. Washington
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery : an autobiography
- Up from slavery : authoritative text, contexts, and composition history, criticism
- Venus and Serena Williams
- Venus and Serena Williams : grand slam sisters
- Vision of beauty : the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
- Wake up our souls : a celebration of Black American artists
- Walking the road to freedom : a story about Sojourner Truth
- Walter White
- Warriors don't cry : the searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
- What it's like to be President Barack Obama
- What it's like to be Ryan Howard : Qué se siente al ser Ryan Howard
- When Marian sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson
- Who are Venus and Serena Williams?
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who is Michael Jordan?
- Who is Michelle Obama?
- Who is Muhammad Ali?
- Who was Booker T. Washington?
- Who was Jesse Owens?
- Who was Louis Armstrong?
- Who was Louis Armstrong?
- Who was Louis Armstrong?
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
- Whoopi Goldberg : from street to stardom
- Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions
- Will Smith : "I like blending a message with comedy"
- William Grant Still : African-American composer
- With a banjo on my knee : a musical journey from slavery to freedom
- With books and bricks : how Booker T. Washington built a school
- Words set me free : the story of young Frederick Douglass
- Yes we can : a biography of Barack Obama
- York's adventures with Lewis and Clark : an African-American's part in the great expedition
- You can be a woman basketball player
- Young Harriet Tubman : freedom fighter
- Yours for justice, Ida B. Wells : the daring life of a crusading journalist
- Zora Neale Hurston : a storyteller's life
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