Our theme for Black History Month 2025 was Black History Is American History.
Selected Bibliography
Please encourage your students to browse and borrow!
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy: Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker By Emmanuel Acho
The Undefeated By Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver By Aliki
Chains, Forge, and Ashes (The Seeds of America Trilogy)
By Laurie Halse Anderson
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
By Chris Barton and Don Tate
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me By Maya Angelou and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Through My Eyes By Ruby Bridges
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball
By Jen Bryant and Frank Morrison
Martin Luther King Jr. (10 Days) By David Colbert
The ABCs of Black History By Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
By Evette Dionne
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge By Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship By Russell Freedman
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights By Russell Freedman
The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale
Dear Dr. King: Letters from Today's Children to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Ann McMillan Harms, Jan Colbert, Ann M. Harms
Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight (Volume 7 of People Who Shaped Our World) By Michelle Lord and Alleanna Harris
March (Books One, Two, and Three) By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary By Walter Dean Myers
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary By Elizabeth Partridge
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
By Susan Goldman Rubin
Harriet Tubman By Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson