African American biographies

Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Bryan Collier

Little leaders : bold women in black history / Vashti Harrison

Before she was Harriet : the story of Harriet Tubman / by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome

Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? : by Bonnie Bader ; illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf

Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama

African American biography

Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes

The butler : a witness to history / Wil Haygood

Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography / by Walter Dean Myers

The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Little legends : exceptional men in black history / Vashti Harrison ; with Kwesi Johnson

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / Jeff Hobbs

Malcolm X : a life of reinvention / Manning Marable

Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman

A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr. / David A. Adler ; illustrated by Robert Casilla

The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed