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Celebrate Black History Month with Nonfiction Books

Learn about real-life Black American heroes with these nonfiction titles! January 2025

Arapahoe Libraries

20 items

  • Ketanji

    Justice Jackson's Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court

    Magoon, Kekla,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — EB JACKSON
  • Book, 2023New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — EB WILLIAMS
  • Coretta

    the Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

    King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006,
    Book, 2024New York : Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — EB KING
  • Book, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — JB ABRAMS
  • Finding Rebecca

    the Forgotten Life of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America's First Black Female Doctor

    King, Shani Mahiri,
    Book, 2024Ann Arbor, MI : Tilbury House Publishers, [2024] — JB CRUMPLER
  • Unstoppable

    How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington

    Long, Michael G.,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Little Bee Books, [2023] — EB RUSTIN
  • Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!

    Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll

    Bolden, Tonya,
    Book, 2023New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — EB THARPE
  • Jackie Ormes Draws the Future

    the Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist

    Montague, Liz,
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Studio, [2023] — EB ORMES
  • Not Done Yet

    Shirley Chisholm's Fight for Change

    Brown, Tameka Fryer,
    Book, 2022Minneapolis, MN : Millbrook Press, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., [2022] — EB CHISHOLM
  • Book, 2022New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., [2022] — EB BRIDGES
  • This Promise of Change

    One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

    Boyce, Jo Ann Allen,
    Book, 2019New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019. — J 379.263097 BOYCE
  • Mighty Justice

    the Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

    Asim, Jabari, 1962-
    Book, 2020New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — JB ROUNDTREE
  • Book, 2023New York : Rocky Pond Books, 2023. — EB LEWIS
  • The Oldest Student

    How Mary Walker Learned to Read

    Hubbard, Rita L,
    Book, 2020New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020] — EB WALKER
  • Going Places

    Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book

    Bolden, Tonya,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — E 305.896 BOLDEN
  • Hidden Figures

    the True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

    Shetterly, Margot Lee,
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — E SHETTERLY
  • Curve & Flow

    the Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams

    Loney, Andrea J.,
    Book, 2022New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] — EB WILLIAMS
  • A Mighty Long Way

    My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

    LaNier, Carlotta Walls,
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — JB LANIER