Middle School, High School, and College Reading/Audio/Visual Lists
Please note: Age levels have been assembled from multiple sources and may not be completely accurate; they should be verified.
Fiction
Bennett, Brit. The Mothers: A Novel. Riverhead Books. Sexual content. Set in California, the novel describes two star-crossed lovers, resulting pregnancy and abortion, the impact on their family relationships, friendships, and decisions into maturity.
Bennett, Brit. The Vanishing Half: A Novel. Riverhead Books. Teens, sexual content. Two sisters live in an imaginary small town outside of New Orleans where everyone is capable of passing, but all the White people know that they are Black. The sisters make different choices that affect the town, their relationship with each other, and their children.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer: A Novel. One World. A young Black slave inherits a mysterious water gift that enables him to free slaves. The book centers on his discovery, mastery of his gift, and interaction with both Black and white abolitionists.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. Laurel Leaf. In 1963, a Black family living in Flint, Michigan journeys to Birmingham, Alabama primarily because of the antics of one of their three children, Byron. The two other children are Kenny (smart) and his sister Joetta (sensitive). The story takes place in Flint where they meet the children of a poor Black southerner before their trip to Montgomery to visit their grandmother. The book centers on the growing relationship among the siblings and the impact of the church bombings on their lives.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel. Booker Prize Winner. Grove Press. A novel about 12 Black British women of different classes, ages, and sexual orientations intersecting each other lives.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Vintage Books. Other categories: Black Experience. Sexual content. Published in 1952, the book tells the story of a young Black man trying to find his identity while grappling with his racial identity, communism, and Black philosophy in a terrain where he remains largely invisible.
Farley, C.J.. Around Harvard Square. Black Sheep. A smart student/athlete along with other colorful characters faces racial and class barriers while trying to get on the staff of Harvard’s competitive and prestigious humor magazine.
Flake, Sharon G.. Pinned. Scholastic Press. A book about a teen female wrestler, Autumn, who reads substantially below her grade level, and a nerdy boy, Adonis, who is born without legs. Autumn, cut from the team because of grades, encounters and becomes smitten, while Adonis tries to avoid her. How they come together with their individual disabilities to achieve their destinies is at the heart of this book.
Naylor, Gloria, ed.. Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967-1997. Little, Brown and Company
In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes – the classic compendium of African American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Vintage Books. Sexual content. The story of a young girl, Pecola, and her journey to madness as she wishes for and then believes she has been granted blue eyes. The book contrasts two families, the Breedloves and MacTeers, their children, classmates, and the upbringing of their parents. This is Toni Morrison’s first book involving Blacks living in the South during the 1940s and is considered semi-autobiographical.
Reynolds, Jason. The Boy in the Black Suit. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. Due to a variety of circumstances, Matt Miller ends up working in a funeral home. He has lost his mother to breast cancer and an alcoholic father fallen back on the bottle does not help with his grief until he meets Love. Having a front row seat to death from natural and unnatural causes, Matt tries to find a way to grieve and find peace. His good friend Chris tries to help him while other classmates avoid him. A simple choice and a simple gift provide the answer.
Tamani, Liara. Calling My Name. Greenwallow Books. Other categories: Black Experience. A young Black girl from Houston, Texas comes of age on a path to self-discovery.
Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. Balzer + Bray. A teenage Back girl witnesses the shooting of her Black male companion by a white officer. Her decision to testify and the ultimate outcome reflect recent events involving white-cop-on-Black-victim crime. This book is now a movie.
Wilkinson, Lauren. American Spy: A Novel. Random House. A young, single Black woman, trying to follow in the footsteps of a deceased sister and please a retired Army father is working in an unfulfilling position for the FBI. Recruited by CIA Black Ops, she finds herself in Africa questioning her loyalty to her assignment and having feelings for her target.
Grace Wisher American flag https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2014/05/the-african-american-girl-who-helped-make-the-star-spangled-banner.html by Helen Yuen and Asantewa Boakyewa, May 30, 2014
Two hundred years ago, an African American girl made history—literally. She was an indentured servant named Grace Wisher in the household of Mary Pickersgill. Helen Yuen and Ms. Asantewa Boakyewa of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum share her story.
Mary Pickersgill is often credited with sewing the Star-Spangled Banner which flew over Fort McHenry in Maryland and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. Less known is that Grace Wisher, an African American girl at just 13 years old, also helped make the flag. It’s another testament to the deeply rooted, yet oft unmentioned, contributions of African Americans to the very core of this country.
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. (Balzer + Bray, $19.99.) This Y.A. novel, a prequel to the popular “The Hate U Give,” follows its 17-year-old hero as he learns he’s going to become a father, considers leaving his gang and envisions his family legacy. Despite these challenges, a “familiar hum of collective care is woven throughout ‘Concrete Rose’ and showcases the full humanity of Black folks — and Black boys in particular,” Martha Tesema writes in her review.
The Journey of Little Charlie (National Book Award Finalist)
After losing his father in s freak accident, an overseer from a nearby plantation forces Little Charlie to accompany him on a job. On the journey, Little Charlie is confronted with his own feelings about slavery and humanity. Little Charlie is a gentle giant; a memorable character with a heart of gold whose voice rings true to the story.
Science Fiction
Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone. Henry Holt Publishers. Teens, Sexual content. The first book of a trilogy of mystical science fiction about warring tribes in a mysterious and magical country in Africa A movie is to follow
Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Henry Holt Publishers. Teens, Sexual content. The second book of a trilogy of mystical science fiction about warring tribes in a mysterious and magical country in Africa A movie is to follow
Farley, C.J.. Game World. Black Sheep. Part science fiction and fantasy, a young teenage boy in an unstable home environment joins with friends and his sister to enter a game that can change his life. Unfortunately, the game (called “Xamaica,” a play on “Jamaica”) is too real, and our hero must face real live monsters and a game challenge to save his friends and family.
Kindred by Octavia Butler. Dana (Edana) wakes in the hospital with her left arm amputated. Her husband, Kevin, comes in, and the couple hopes that the police won’t investigate the incident any further. The trouble began on June 9th, 1976 as Dana and Kevin are moving to a new house in Los Angeles, California. Dana feels dizzy and blacks out, then finds herself at a river where a young boy is drowning. Dana saves the child and gives him CPR, despite the protests of the boy’s mother. The boy’s father comes and points a rifle at Dana, but Dana is transported back to her home before the man can shoot. Kevin crouches over Dana, explaining that she was only gone a few seconds, though Dana is sure she spent minutes saving the boy. Kevin isn’t sure if he believes Dana about where she went, but knows that something very strange is happening.
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James. Black Leopard Red Wolf is a lush epic fantasy set in an enchanted and mythical Africa, filled with quests and magical beasts and vicious battles to the death. But it’s also a much weirder, twistier book than the Game of Thrones parallels would suggest.
Autobiography
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Ballantine. Teens, Sexual content, also considered Autobiographical Fiction
An autobiography from age 3-16 involving rape and racism
Arceneaux, Michael. I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé. Atria Books. Teens, Sexual content. A journalist, Michael Arcenaux, recounts his journey through homosexuality, love, trials, and tribulations in searching for a partner, relating family issues and why Beyonce has always been his savior
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. Vintage. Other categories: Black Experience, Coming of Age. Semi-autographical in nature, the book tells the story of a young Black teenager growing up in Harlem in the 1930s and the hypocrisy and inspiration of religion.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir. One World. A book about the author’s life, his parents, and siblings.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. independently published. Born a mixed-race slave in the 1817 South, Douglass serves under several masters with varying degrees of both brutish behavior and kindness. Despite the threat of punishment, Douglas becomes a teacher and master of the English language and eventually escapes slavery to become a prominent abolitionist.
Lythcott-Haims, Julie. Real American: A Memoir. Henry Holt Publishers. Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color.
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. One World Books. An autobiography that spans Trevor Noah’s illegal birth in South Africa to his success as a late-night TV talk-show host.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Broadway Books. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. One World Publishers. The autobiography of a DE hero who becomes a major Southern Black lawyer fighting for Black men on death row with some success. He later forms the Equal Justice Initiative and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama. This book is now a movie.
Truth, Sojourner and Gilbert, Olive. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Chump Change Books. The true story of a northern freed slave who was both an abolitionist and feminist and became an orator to speak out against slavery.
Wells, Ida B.. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. University of Chicago Press. Ida B. Wells, born a slave, was a Black journalist, abolitionist, and feminist who fought against lynching.
Biography
Bascomb, Neal. Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Teens. Other categories: History. A tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Amistad. Zora Neale Hurston chronicles the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last slave ship survivor, from his capture in Africa to his life as a slave and a free man.
McGinty, Brian. The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave. Liveright Publishing Corporation. Violence. Other categories: Black Experience. This book tells the story of a free Black man, Tilman, who in 1861 was hired as a cook on a sea vessel, the Waring. The ship was overtaken by Confederate pirates who planned to seize its cargo and return to the South, enslaving Tilman. Considered harmless, with a skeleton Confederate crew, Tilman successfully engineered a mutiny to retake the ship and sailed to New York harbor and to freedom.
Meadows, Michelle. illustrated by Glenn Ebony. Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins. Henry Holt. Other categories: Contributions by Black Americans. The story of one of the first African American ballerinas.
Elizabeth Keckley https://www.whitehousehistory.org/from-slavery-to-the-white-house-the-extraordinary-life-of-elizabeth-keckly
In 1868, Elizabeth (Lizzy) Hobbs Keckly (also spelled Keckley) published her memoir Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. This revealing narrative reflected on Elizabeth’s fascinating story, detailing her life experiences from slavery to her successful career as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker. At the time of its publication, the book was controversial. It soured her close relationship with Mrs. Lincoln and destroyed the reputation of both women. Although the American public was not prepared to read the story of a free Black woman assuming control of her own life narrative at the time of publication, her recollections have been used by many historians to reconstruct the Lincoln White House and better understand one of the nation’s most fascinating and misunderstood first ladies. Her story is integral to White House history and understanding the experiences of enslaved and free Black women.
History
Alexander, Kwame, and Nelson, Kadir. The Undefeated. Versify. Caldecott Medal Book. Other categories: Poetry. The story of African American survival in the United States from the capture to present day.
Caldwell, Robert Graham. Red Hannah: Delaware’s Whipping Post. University of Pennsylvania Press. A history of a post painted red that was used to publicly punish Whites but mostly Blacks, including women. Delaware State legislature mandated the removal, and the last whipping post in Delaware was removed in Georgetown, Delaware, in 2020.
Cooper, Arshay. A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team. Flatiron Books. Teens. The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago’s West Side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio.
Johnson, Hannibal B.. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District. Eakin Press.
In 1921, a white mob set fire to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street (also known as the Greenwood District), a prosperous Black community. The event was precipitated by a rumor about an encounter in an elevator between Dick Rowland, a Black man, and Sarah Page, a white woman. Jim Crow, jealousy, and the escalating rumors led to the destruction of Black residential and commercial properties and the death and incarceration of Black residents.
McKissack, Patricia and McKissack, Fredrick. The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa. Henry Holt and Co. A historical review of three African countries that accumulated wealth through slaves, gold, and salt—and their effort to reclaim their past.
Kendi, Ibram X.. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. National Book Award Winner. Nation Books. Other categories: Black Experience. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
Lynch, Willie. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave. African Tree Press. A brief, 28-page book by a British West Indian slave owner, who was invited by Virginia slave owners to instruct them on how to control slaves.
Ward, Larry. America’s Racial Karma. Parrallax. Other categories: Black Experience. A condensed primer from the Buddhist perspective, this book places race problems in historical context by recalling the genocide of Native Americans at the founding of the U.S. and the ensuing institutionalization of slavery.
Caste, The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, also author of the Pulitzer prize winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns. In Caste, Isabel Wilkerson argues that the current social and political landscapes in America derive from the infrastructure of human hierarchy developed 400 years ago when Europeans first came to this land. This hierarchy placing whites at the top and black people at the bottom is the American caste system, and although no one alive today is responsible for starting it, we have inherited it and perpetuated it for generations. Wilkerson examines the different caste systems around the world and how they damage the lives of everyone involved, even those at the top. She believes that to understand how to move forward, we must examine the past and the racial structures that keep progress as a nation at bay.
The History and Heritage of African-American Churches: A Way Out of NO Way by L.H. Whelchel, Jr. Whelchel demonstrates the struggles of Africans in the United States to build and maintain their own churches before showing how those churches and their ministers were often at the center of seminal events in the history of America.
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp by Daniel O. Sayers. In the first thorough archaeological examination of this unique region, Daniel Sayers exposes and unravels the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery.
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grisson. Kathleen Grissom’s The Kitchen House is a coming-of-age tale about Lavinia McCarter, an Irish immigrant who, at a young age, is brought to a Virginian tobacco plantation called Tall Oaks to work as a servant. The year is 1791. Lavinia is indentured to Captain James Pyke, the owner of the plantation, after her parents die aboard his ship. Once at the plantation, she is sent to the kitchen house, where she is to be cared for by Belle, an African American servant who is the illegitimate daughter of Mr. Pyke. Belle and the other slaves—Mama Mae, Papa George, their son Ben, and their two young daughters, Fanny and Beattie—grow to care for Lavinia very deeply, and Lavinia, in turn, sees them as her real family.
Jubilee by Margaret Walker. Jubilee (1966) is a historical novel written by Margaret Walker, which focuses on the story of a biracial slave during the American Civil War. It is set in Georgia and later in various parts of Alabama in the mid-19th century before, during, and after the Civil War.
Essays
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Penguin. Sexual content. Other categories: Black Experience
Essays regarding religion and racism in American and a roadmap to reconciliation.
Bernard, Emily. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. Vintage Books. Teens. Can also be included in: Autobiography, Black Experience, Coming of Age, Interracial Discussion. Personal essays describing growing up dealing with racial issues and pressures, including a random attack by a White person, growing up in the North, interracial marriage, African adoptions, and teaching at a White college.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, and Gene Andrew Jarrett, and Thomas Lewis Morgan (editors). The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ohio University Press. Born to free slaves in 1872, Paul Dunbar is one of the first prolific Black poets and essayists who wrote in both dialect and standard English, describing Black life at the turn of the century. Other categories: Black Experience
Black Experience
Rankine, Claudia. Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press. Other categories: Interracial Discussion, Poetry, Essays
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me, Text Publishing Co.. Other categories: Essays
Written as a love letter to his son, a father describes what it means to be a Black boy in America and how to survive.
Edim, Glory. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves. Ballantine. Other categories: Essays
The subjects of each essay remind us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. As she has done with her book club–turned–online community Well-Read Black Girl, in this anthology Glory Edim has created a space in which black women’s writing and knowledge and life experiences are lifted up, to be shared with all readers who value the power of a story to help us understand the world and ourselves.
Glaude Jr., Eddie S.. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Crown Books. Other categories: Essays. Examining an unfathomable Trump presidency through the eyes of James Baldwin by the Director of African American Studies at Princeton. Glaude recounts extensive research on Baldwin’s life and blends in details from his own, including his trip to The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, AL.
Horace, Matthew and Harris, Ron. The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement. Hachette.
Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider’s examination of archaic police tactics. He dissects some of the nation’s most highly publicized police shootings and communities to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, revealing the mistakes that have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence.
Jealous, Ben. Shorters, Trabian. and Simmons, Russell, eds. Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding. Atria Books. In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country.
Lebron, Christopher J.. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Oxford University Press.
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not. the plea and demand that “Black Lives Matter” comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity — and not just equal rights — of Black people.
Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press. A trauma therapist explains white body supremacy, its origins, and its internalized mechanisms in today’s society.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House. Other categories: History. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Vintage. Other categories: History
This book tells the story of the two great migrations of African Americans out of the South to the North, Northeast, and Midwest from 1915 to 1970.
Zoboi, Ibi. Baptiste, Tracey. Booth, Coe. Clayton, Dhonielle. Colbert, Brandy, et al.. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Balzer + Bray Publishers. Sexual Content. Other categories: Fiction
Being Black as seen through many different experiences involving relationships, the environment, and sexuality among the young.
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis, US Congressman and Civil Rights Leader. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society.
The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South by Katherine van Wormer, David W. Jackson III and Charletta Sudduth. The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress.
Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South. This is a collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the 20th century to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. It is based on interviews with 42 women of both races from the Deep South.
Interracial Discussion
DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Hamilton, Jason and Alex Reynolds. How to Be Anti-Racist: A Simple and Practical Guide to Learn How to Treat Each Race with Dignity, Eliminate Racial Prejudice, and Stop Discrimination. independently published. This practical and enlightening guide explores the topic of race and racism in a way that anybody can understand. With simple explanations, along with examples of the damaging nature of discrimination and prejudice, this book makes for an ideal tool to educate yourself about the state of racism in the US and how you can begin to defeat it.
Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand |Ages: 11 years and up. How to Be an Antiracist is a combination academic treatise and memoir in which the author, Ibram X. Kendi, considers the different forms of racism in society and how we can best eliminate them, while also sharing his personal experiences with racism.
Poetry
Rankine, Claudia. Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press. As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.
Smith, Tracy K.. Wade in the Water: Poems. Graywolf Press. Other categories: Black Experience. A collection of poems and historical pieces describing the Black experience in America by a US Poet-Laureate.
Contributions by Black Americans
Haber, Louis. Black Pioneers of Science and Invention. HMH Books for Young Readers. Other categories: Biography
A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history.
Kemp, Kristin. Amazing Americans: Thurgood Marshall. Teacher Created Materials. Other categories: Biography
Students will learn about Thurgood Marshall and how his fight for civil rights for African Americans helped change unfair laws.
Talley, André Leon. The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir. Ballantine. Sexual content. Other categories: Autobiography. One of the few Black gay men to arrive at the pinnacle of the fashion world at Vogue magazine, André rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, including well known designers, but he faces doubt due to his sexuality and weight.
