Book Connections | Black History for Elementary Students

Before She Was Harriet

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker

by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson

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Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

by Ashley Bryan

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Rosa

by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier

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This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

by Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransome

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Blues Journey

by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers

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Finding Langston

by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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Going Down Home with Daddy

by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez

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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills

by Renée Watson and Christian Robinson

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Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

by Don Tate

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Henry's Freedom Box

by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson

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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

by Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransome

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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A Sweet Smell of Roses

by Angela Johnson and Eric Velasquez

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Ellen's Broom

by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter

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Tea Cakes for Tosh

by Kelly Starling Lyons and E.B. Lewis

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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrison

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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls

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My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

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Carter Reads the Newspaper

by Deborah Hopkinson and Don Tate

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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

by Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor, III

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Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon

by Kelly Starling Lyons and Laura Freeman

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Shabazz Larkin

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Book Itch, The: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie

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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

by Deborah Hopkinson and James Ransome

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Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World

by Marilyn Nelson and Jerry Pinkney

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Clemente!

by Willie Perdomo and Bryan Collier

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Me and Momma and Big John

by Mara Rockliff and William Low

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Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations

by Kelly Starling Lyons and Keith Mallett

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Thurgood

by Jonah Winter and Bryan Collier

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Great Migration, The: Journey to the North

The Great Migration: Journey to the North

by Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist

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New Shoes

by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez

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Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

by Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins

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Pink and Say

by Patricia Polacco

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Ruth and the Green Book

by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Floyd Cooper

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Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box

by Michael S. Bandy, Eric Stein, and James Ransome

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Bayou Magic

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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Dayshaun's Gift

by Zetta Elliott and Alex Portal

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Ellington Was Not a Street

by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson

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Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

by Tonya Bolden

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Black & White: The Confrontation of Reverence Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene

by Larry Dane Brimner

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Under the Freedom Tree

by Susan VanHecke and London Ladd

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Freedom's School

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

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Steamboat School

by Deborah Hopkinson and Ron Husband

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Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space

by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

by Janet Halfmann and London Ladd

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