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Come Juneteenth
by Ann Rinaldi
Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave. But the family is harboring a terrible secret. And when Union soldiers arrive on their Texas plantation to announce that slaves have been declared free for nearly two years, Sis Goose is horrified to learn that the people she called family have lied to her for so long. She runs away--but her newly found freedom has tragic consequences.
How could the state of Texas keep the news of the Emancipation Proclamation from reaching slaves? In this riveting Great Episodes historical drama, Ann Rinaldi sheds light on the events that led to the creation of Juneteenth, a celebration of freedom that continues today.
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Copper Sun
by Sharon M. Draper
Having watched her village torched, witnessed her family killed, and been kidnapped by slave traders, Amari arrives on Mr. Derby's Carolina plantation afraid and confused, yet with time and hard work, she learns the language, befriends another slave, and struggles to attain her one true goal: to be a free person once again.
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Angel of Greenwood
by Randi Pink
Angel and Isaiah share a hidden love for black literature, and now each other, when tragedy and triumph emerge during the Greenwood Massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
by Tonya Bolden
Freed from slavery, Mariah and her younger brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost
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Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds
A timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited.
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Dark Sky Rising : Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates
The National Humanities Medal recipient shares real-life accounts from the periods spanning the end of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow segregation, in a scholarly tribute to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal.
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Unequal : a story of America
by Michael Eric Dyson
This gripping account of the struggles that shaped America and the insidiousness of racism demonstrates how inequality still persists today and provides a framework for addressing racial injustice.
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Black Angels
by Linda Beatrice Brown
Fleeing his owners and trying to find the Union Army to sign up, eleven-year-old Luke comes upon a young slave girl lost in the woods and a young white boy whose plantation was burned to the ground, in a moving story about an unlikely friendship and the struggle to survive in the midst of war.
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Augusta Savage : The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
by Marilyn Nelson
A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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