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Black History Month - 2023 - Kids NF

It's February and time to celebrate Black History Month.  This list contains nonfiction titles about prominent individuals through history and how they helped shape our world today and books about the history of the black community.  The books vary in reading and interest level, but they all contain amazing stories of the past which have created our present.


NOTE: This list was updated January 2023


Timelines from Black history : leaders, legends, legacies

by Mireille Harper


Little leaders : bold women in black history

by Vashti Harrison


The Greensboro lunch counter : what an artifact can tell us about the Civil Rights Movement

by Shawn Pryor


Race against time

by Sandra Neil Wallace


More than just a game : the Black origins of basketball

by Madison Moore


What is Black Lives Matter?

by Lakita Wilson


The teachers march! : how Selma's teachers changed history

by Sandra Neil Wallace


The Compton cowboys : and the fight to save their horse ranch

by Walter Thompson-Hernandez


Never caught, the story of Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar


March forward, girl

by Melba Beals


The undefeated

by Kwame Alexander


A child's introduction to African American history

by Jabari Asim


Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present

by Jamia Wilson


Civil rights movement

by Nancy Ohlin




Black artists shaping the world

by Sharna Jackson


She was the first! : the trailblazing life of Shirley Chisholm

by Katheryn Russell-Brown


Unspeakable

by Carole Boston Weatherford




Hidden Figures

by Shetterly, Margot Lee




Radiant Child

by Steptoe, Javaka


Streetcar to Justice

by Hearth, Amy Hill


Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson


The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage

by Selina Alko


Ice Breaker: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating

by Vina, Rose


Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

by Duncan, Alice Faye


The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

by Hubbard, Rita L.


Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls

by Bolden, Tonya


A Place to Land

by Wittenstein, Barry


An American Story

by Kwame Alexander




Justice Rising

by Katheryn Russell-Brown




Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin

by Tracey Baptiste