Black History Month: Teen Nonfiction

Updated February 3, 2026
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A few red drops The Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
Hartfield, Claire.
Ebook
This mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the...
Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
Edwards, Sue Bradford
Ebook
Hidden Human Computers discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential...
Loving vs. virginia A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case.
Powell, Patricia Hruby
Ebook
Brown v. Board of Education : a fight for simple justice
Rubin, Susan Goldman
Paper Book
An award-winning author chronicles the story behind the landmark Supreme Court decision in this fascinating account for young readers. In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. The...
Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon
Paper Book
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book KirkusBest Books of 2015 BooklistEditors' Choice 2015 BCCBBlue Ribbon 2015 As the youngest...
Courage has no color The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers.
Stone, Tanya Lee.
Ebook
They became America's first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the...
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Douglass, Frederick
Paper Book
This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United...
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Ebook
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American...

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