For Parents and Educators
- Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
- Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
- Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools from ProPublica
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For Teens and Tweens
- Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
- Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell and Shadra Strickland
- She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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For Younger Children
- Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World by L. A. Amber
- Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome
- Black Pioneers of Science and Invention by Louis Haber
- Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids by Kimberly Brown Pellum
- Have You Thanked an Inventor Today? by Patrice McLaurin , Dian Wang ,
- June Peters, You Will Change The World One Day by Alika Turner and Naafi Rohma
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
- Jambo Book Club
Resources for Educators
- History Class and the Fictions About Race in America
- Pulitzer Center 1619 Project Curriculum –
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
- Segregated by Design
- Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians
- History Books that don’t tell the Real Story (See Color of Law by Richard Rothstein)
- The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century by Holt McDougal
- Pearson’s, United States History: Reconstruction to the Present
- This Black History Month’s Lesson: Joy
[Find more resources for Black History Month from Parenting for the Future here]
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