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This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
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Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
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John Henry
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If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
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I am Rosa Parks
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I, Too, Am America
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The Other Side
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
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Freedom Summer
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
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White Socks Only
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A Sweet Smell of Roses
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I Have a Dream
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We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
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Remember: The Journey to School Integration
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My Name Is James Madison Hemings
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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
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Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
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Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children
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The Seeds of America Trilogy: Chains / Forge / Ashes
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Stella by Starlight
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
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Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1)
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100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
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Black Pioneers of Science and Invention: Fourteen Innovators Who Saved Lives and Altered American History
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
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One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
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The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship between a Boy and a Baseball Legend
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
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Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
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Book of Black Heroes From A to Z
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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title
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Which Way Freedom?
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Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
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Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
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March: The Trilogy (March, #1-3)
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
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All American Boys
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A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
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Monster
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How I Discovered Poetry
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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How It Went Down
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I Never Had It Made
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Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground
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Unbought And Unbossed
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Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
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