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Black History Nonfiction Picture Books

These powerful picture books embrace the past and the present of Black history.

Arapahoe Libraries

36 items

  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — E ALEXANDER
  • BookNew York : Versify, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — E GIOVANNI
  • Sing, Aretha, Sing!

    Aretha Franklin, "Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement

    Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — E 782.421644 ABDURRAQIB
  • KitSolon, OH : Findaway ; Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2022]. — KIT J 976.686004 WEATHERFORD MP3
  • The Oldest Student

    How Mary Walker Learned to Read

    Hubbard, Rita L,
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020] — EB WALKER
  • There's a world out there just waiting for you and your talents.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — E PERKINS
  • This book of poetry honors the lengths Black Americans went to be heard.
    BookBoston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — E 811.6 ALEXANDER
  • Be a King

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    Act on Dr. King's words on inspiration to make the world a better place.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2018. — EB KING
  • Experience the march from Selma to Montgomery through the eyes of a child.
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, ©2010. — J 323.119607 SHELTON
  • Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town

    Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement

    LaFaye, A,
    Kansas is the land of opportunity for this sharecropping family.
    BookChicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman and Company, [2019] — E LAFAYE
  • Even if your dreams seem too big, follow them. You never know where you'll end up!
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2015. — EB ANDREWS
  • Lillian's Right to Vote

    a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Winter, Jonah, 1962-
    She fought hard for the right to vote and isn't going to let anyone stop her!
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2015] — E WINTER
  • Pies From Nowhere

    How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Romito, Dee,
    Civil rights workers get hungry, and someone needs to feed them.
    BookNew York, NY : little bee books, [2018] — EB GILMORE