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• Black History Is Your History

  Cassidy, Taylor,

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  TikTok creator Cassidy shares how 12 historical figures inspired her and can inspire the reader to embrace history and their own movement through it.

• Represent!

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  Young people navigate their interests and intergenerational concerns in these stories about a birdwatcher, a descendant of farmers, and an aspiring chef.

• Those Who Saw the Sun

  African American Oral Histories From the Jim Crow South

  Avery, Jaha Nailah,

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  "One of the most important things a culture can do is preserve history, truthfully. In Those Who Saw the Sun we have the special experience of hearing this history as it was experienced by those who were really there. "

• Ida, in Love and in Trouble

  Chambers, Veronica,

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  Historical novel about the trailblazing journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.

• Black History for Every Day of the Year

  Olusoga, David,

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  ""A 365-day guide to important figures, events, and media from Black history."

• Angel of Greenwood

  Pink, Randi,

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  Historical novel about teenage friends that takes place during the 1921 "Black Wall Street" massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

• The Double V Campaign

  African Americans Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad

  Lyon, Lea, 1945-

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  In 2026, the 250th anniversary of the United States, this book reminds us of the World War II era fight by African Americans for the country to realize its ideals.

• Poemhood, Our Black Revival

  History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology

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  "Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain"

• The Black Campus Movement

  a History of Black Student Activism

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  "In this second edition, with a new Preface and updates throughout the text, Dr. Kendi reminds us that the antiracist higher education that the students in these pages fought for has yet to be achieved."

• The Voting Booth

  Colbert, Brandy,

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  "The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place...Soon it's clear that there is more to their connection than a shared mission for democracy."

• Freedom!

  the Story of the Black Panther Party

  Martin, Jetta Grace,

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  "A comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party, told for younger readers."

• Champion

  a Graphic Novel

  Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-

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  A high school star basketball player is assigned to write about the activism of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His research and discoveries kindle his own interests in social justice.

• In the Name of Emmett Till

  How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

  Mayer, Robert H., 1950-

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  Stories of the young activists and organizers who risked their lives to spark change in the fight for civil rights.

• American Wings

  Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  "A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II."

• All You Have to Do

  Allen, Autumn,

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  The stories of two Black students, one living in 1968 and the other living in 1995, the challenges they face and aspirations they embrace.

• American Struggle

  Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence

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  A collection of teen reflections on the Struggle series by renowned African American painter Jacob Lawrence.

• Saving Savannah

  Bolden, Tonya,

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  Set in the early 1900s, a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C. becomes involved in the suffragist and social justice movements through new friends.

• Banned Together

  Our Fight for Readers' Rights

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  "A multi-genre, young adult anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators."