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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
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4.49 avg rating — 16,741 ratings
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.33 avg rating — 12,886 ratings
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 6,015 ratings
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 5,578 ratings
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Rosa
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4.35 avg rating — 6,881 ratings
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Through My Eyes
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4.47 avg rating — 6,143 ratings
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If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
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4.01 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist
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4.24 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Ron's Big Mission
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4.40 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
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4.05 avg rating — 3,538 ratings
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Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
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4.26 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
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4.20 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
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4.31 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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3.87 avg rating — 4,550 ratings
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
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4.34 avg rating — 4,226 ratings
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When Harriet Met Sojourner: A Powerful Picture Book About Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth for Children (Ages 4-8)
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3.96 avg rating — 141 ratings
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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
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3.89 avg rating — 5,333 ratings
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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
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4.27 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
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4.12 avg rating — 561 ratings
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
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4.44 avg rating — 13,001 ratings
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Alvin Ailey
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3.99 avg rating — 158 ratings
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As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
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4.41 avg rating — 380 ratings
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I Have a Dream
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4.50 avg rating — 3,748 ratings
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
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4.18 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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George Washington Carver
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4.18 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Dizzy
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4.05 avg rating — 349 ratings
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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4.44 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
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4.50 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
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4.26 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
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4.16 avg rating — 3,444 ratings
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Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
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4.34 avg rating — 632 ratings
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I am Rosa Parks
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4.51 avg rating — 1,754 ratings
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Coretta Scott
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4.21 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
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4.07 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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In the Garden with Dr. Carver
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4.20 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
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4.24 avg rating — 2,289 ratings
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
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4.01 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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Before She was Harriet
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4.49 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
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4.16 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
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4.19 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
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4.14 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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Trombone Shorty
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4.29 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
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3.72 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
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4.60 avg rating — 3,727 ratings
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Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
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4.38 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
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3.93 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman
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4.16 avg rating — 151 ratings
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It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
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4.08 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Show Way
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4.26 avg rating — 3,500 ratings
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A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
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4.10 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
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4.29 avg rating — 291 ratings
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A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream
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4.16 avg rating — 974 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History: A Powerful Picture Book Biography About Slavery and Freedom for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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4.33 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
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4.49 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
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4.37 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
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Twelve Rounds to Glory (12 Rounds to Glory): The Story of Muhammad Ali
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4.26 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter
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3.98 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
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4.24 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Jazz Age Josephine
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3.76 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
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4.29 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
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4.26 avg rating — 106 ratings
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My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth – An Illustrated Biography of an Iconic Abolitionist and Orator for Children (Ages 6-10)
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3.97 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
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4.27 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
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4.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
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4.03 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Bessie Smith and the Night Riders
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4.02 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
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4.06 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way – An Inspiring Story About a Legendary Ballplayer for Kids (Ages 4-7)
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3.94 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Pink and Say
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4.49 avg rating — 11,693 ratings
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Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game
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4.01 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Thurgood Marshall: First Black Supreme Court Justice (Rookies Biographies Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
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4.14 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
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4.18 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
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4.06 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
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4.49 avg rating — 87 ratings
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.31 avg rating — 2,043 ratings
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Before She Was Harriet
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4.49 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Great Black Performers, 3)
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4.01 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy is Enlightening
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3.97 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
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4.23 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
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3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane's Musical Journey
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3.98 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Barack
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3.89 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Nelson Mandela
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4.27 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s American Heroes: Robert Smalls, the Boat Thief
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4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
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4.35 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Oprah: The Little Speaker
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3.78 avg rating — 116 ratings
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God Bless the Child
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3.94 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
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4.27 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
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4.17 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
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4.26 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
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4.14 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly – A Picture Book Biography of the Civil Rights Leader for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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4.07 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom
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3.86 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
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4.29 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
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4.09 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Ray Charles
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4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
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4.24 avg rating — 513 ratings
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