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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra...

K - 4th
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13

Written by Helaine Becker and Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during...

K - 3rd
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Carter Reads the Newspaper

Written by Deborah Hopkinson and Illustrated by Don Tate
“Carter G. Woodson didn’t just read history. He changed it.” As the father of Black History Month...
1st - 5th
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Madam C.J. Walker (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers)

Written by Catherine Nichols

Facts and photographs about the inspiring journeys of these history-making men and women are...

1st - 3rd
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Young Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighter (First-Start Biography)

Written by Andrew Woods
A biography of the escaped slave who became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist...
1st - 4th
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Lead Us to Freedom, Harriet Tubman (Before I Made History)

Written by Connie & Peter Roop
This book shows what Harriet Tubman’s life was like when she was enslaved and follows her brave journey to freedom. Harriet, often called the “Moses of Her Race,” didn’t stop once she escaped. She returned again and again to lead more than three hundred enslaved people to new, free lives as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
2nd - 5th
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A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver

Written and Illustrated by Aliki
Brief text and pictures present the life of a man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted...
Pre-K - 3rd

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