“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
Here are a few of my favorite books featuring African American characters and/or heroes:
The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
Mister and Lady Day: Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her
by Amy Novesky
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile
by Marcia Wells
Princess Truly and the Hungry Bunny Problem
by Kelly Greenawalt
President of the Whole Fifth Grade (President Series)
by Sherri Winston
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Meet Addy: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection)
by Connie Porter
Ninth Ward
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
by Barack Obama
I am Jackie Robinson (Ordinary People Change the World)
by Brad Meltzer
My Rows and Piles of Coins
by Tololwa M. Mollel
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
by Kadir Nelson
This Little Light of Mine
by Public Domain
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Levinson
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Ann Cameron
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
by Vashti Harrison
Dancing in the Wings
by Debbie Allen
The Story of Rosa Parks
by Patricia A. Pingry
I am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World)
by Brad Meltzer
Oh Me, Oh My, Who Am I?
by Dr. Taneshia Knight Shelton
Princess Truly in I Am Truly
by Kelly Greenawalt
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 2: The Ladek Invasion (Volume 2)
by Marti Dumas
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
by Deloris Jordan
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in” -Eliezer Yudkowsky
