By Joan Carbone – Youth Services Library Assistant, Lynnfield Public Library
February is Black History Month and the library has lots of wonderful titles to help you learn more about this important part of history! Scroll down for some great Children’s, Young Adult, and Adult books.
Children’s
Malcolm Little : the boy who grew up to become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
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When we say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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28 Days : Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
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Going Places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book by Tonya Bolden
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Black Ballerinas : my journey to our legacy by Misty Copeland
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
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Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
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King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza
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Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
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The 1619 Project : Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan
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The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
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The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
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Timelines from Black History : leaders, legends, legacies by Mireille Harper
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More than just a game : the Black Origins of Basketball by Madison Moore
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Stitch by Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom by Connie Schofield-Morrison
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What is the Civil Rights Movement? by Sherri L. Smith
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also What was Reconstruction?, What was the Harlem Renaissance?, and Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Young Adult
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
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Black Birds in the Sky : the story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
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We are not broken by George M. Johnson
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Unequal : a story of America by Michael Eric Dyson
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A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Stolen Justice : the struggle for African-American voting rights by Lawrence Goldstone
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Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
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Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party’s promise to the people by Kekla Magoon.
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Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds
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They better call me Sugar : my journey from the hood to the hardwood by Sugar Rodgers
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Star Child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
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Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
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Also, The Hate U Give and On the Come Up
