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- Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Kliment ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scot King
- Harriet Tubman, a photo-illustrated biography, by Margo McLoone
- Artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Wendy Hart Beckman
- Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer supreme, Carolyn Wyman
- Talkin' about Bessie, the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis
- Follow in their footsteps, Glennette Tilley Turner
- W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and activist, Mark Stafford ; with additional text by John Davenport
- Barack Obama, Presidente de Estados Unidos, Roberta Edwards ; ilustraciones de Ken Call
- Toni Morrison, Douglas Century
- Fight on!, Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration, Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin
- The highest tribute, Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy, written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Two tickets to freedom, the true story of Ellen and William Craft, fugitive slaves, Florence B. Freedman ; illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
- From slave to Civil War hero, the life and times of Robert Smalls, by Michael L. Cooper
- Booker T. Washington, educator and racial spokesman, Alan Schroeder ; with additional text written by Anne Beier
- Paul Robeson, actor, singer, political activist, David K. Wright ; series consultant: Russell L. Adams
- Martin Luther King, Jr., the dream of peaceful revolution, by Della Rowland ; with an introduction by Andrew Young
- Paul Robeson, Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by George Ford
- Booker T. Washington, civil rights leader and education advocate, Avery Elizabeth Hurt
- Little leaders, bold women in black history, Vashti Harrison
- Martin Luther King Jr., "we shall overcome", Anne Schraff
- The ABCs of Black history, words by Rio Cortez ; pictures by Lauren Semmer
- Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who changed things, by Carol Greene
- A spy called James, the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent, Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Proudly Red and Black, stories of African and Native Americans, William Loren Katz and Paula A. Franklin
- Harriet Tubman, M.W. Taylor ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and American hero, by Hugh Roome
- Marian Wright Edelman, the making of a crusader, Beatrice Siegel
- Midnight teacher, Lilly Ann Granderson and her secret school, by Janet Halfmann ; illustrated by London Ladd
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Jennifer Fandel
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist, Lisa Renee Rhodes ; with additional text written by Dale Evva Gelfand
- Good night Martin Luther King Jr., written by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper ; illustrated by Julissa Mora
- I have a dream, Karen Price Hossell
- Great Negroes, past and present, by Russell L. Adams ; illustrated by Eugene Winslow ; edited by David P. Ross, Jr
- Ella Fitzgerald, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Booker T. Washington, by Riley Flynn
- What are you figuring now?, a story about Benjamin Banneker, by Jeri Ferris ; illustrations by Amy Johnson
- Alice Walker, Tony Gentry
- Martin Luther King Day, by Linda Lowery ; illustrated by Hetty Mitchell
- Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Gentry ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Voices from slavery's past, yearning to be heard, Suzanne Cloud Tapper
- Martin's big words, the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Bryan Collier
- Coretta Scott King, Lisa Renee Rhodes
- Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and politican, Robert Jakoubek ; with additional text written by Gloria Blakely
- Grandpa stops a war, a Paul Robeson story, Susan Robeson ; illustrated by Rod Brown
- Marcus Garvey, Mary Lawler ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Coretta, the autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King, by Coretta Scott King with the Reverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes
- Martin's dream, by Jane Kurtz ; illustrated by Amy June Bates
- Malcolm X in his own words, by Sarah Machajewski
- Harriet Tubman, journey to freedom, Sandra A. Agard
- Free at last!, written by Angela Bull