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