African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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African American women
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- Jump at the sun, the true life tale of unstoppable storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston, Alicia D. Williams ; illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
- Women in Black history, stories of courage, faith, and resilience, Tricia Williams Jackson
- Harriet Tubman, George Sullivan
- Little Rosetta and the talking guitar, the musical story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll, written and illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
- Patricia's vision, the doctor who saved sight, by Michelle Lord ; illustrated by Alleanna Harris
- Runaway, the daring escape of Ona Judge, written by Ray Anthony Shepard ; illustrated by Keith Mallett
- Harriet Tubman, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Who was Coretta Scott King?, by Gail Herman ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Charlotta Bass, by J.P. Miller ; illustrated by Amanda Quartey
- My name is Truth, the life of Sojourner Truth, by Ann Turner ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Moses, when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Black women who dared, Naomi M. Moyer
- Althea Gibson, the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl, written by Megan Reid ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Florence Griffith Joyner, written by Rita Williams-Garcia ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Michelle Obama, Sarah Machajewski
- Ready to fly, how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina, story told by Lea Lyon and A. LaFaye ; foreword by Sylvia Townsend ; illustrated by Jessica Gibson
- The girl with a mind for math, the story of Raye Montague, written by Julia Finley Mosca ; illustrated by Daniel Rieley
- Hidden figures, the true story of four Black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Before she was Harriet, Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James E. Ransome
- Harriet Tubman, secret agent, how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War, written by Thomas B. Allen ; with illustrations by Carla Bauer
- Harriet Tubman, hero of the Underground Railroad, by Lori Mortensen ; illustrated by Frances Moore
- Condoleezza Rice, by Kevin Cunningham
- Hidden human computers, the black women of NASA, by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD
- Hidden figures, the true story of four black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Who was Harriet Tubman?, by Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Nancy Harrison
- So tall within, Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom, Gary D. Schmidt ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
- To boldly go, how Nichelle Nichols and Star trek helped advance civil rights, written by Angela Dalton ; illustrated by Lauren Semmer
- The life of Harriet Tubman, by Elizabeth Raum
- A history of me, Adrea Theodore ; illustrated by Erin K. Robinson
- Speak up, speak out!, the extraordinary life of "fighting Shirley Chisholm", Tonya Bolden ; with a foreword by Stacey Abrams
- Black ballerinas, my journey to our legacy, Misty Copeland ; illustrated by Salena Barnes
- Harriet Tubman, written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Pili Aguado
- Little leaders, bold women in black history, Vashti Harrison
- Counting the stars, Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by Raúl Colón
- When Harriet met Sojourner, by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, David A. Adler
- Harriet Tubman, [by] Robin S. Doak
- Who was Sojourner Truth?, by Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Jim Eldridge
- Baseball's leading lady, Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues, Andrea Williams
- Never caught, the story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
- Stitch by stitch, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom, by Connie Schofield-Morrison ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
- Ida B. Wells, voice of truth, educator, feminist, and anti-lynching civil rights leader, written by Michelle Duster ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Michelle Obama, an American story, by David Colbert
- Pies from nowhere, how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott, by Dee Romito ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Shirley Chisholm is a verb!, written by Veronica Chambers ; Illustrated by Rachelle Baker
- Reaching for the Moon, the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Katherine Johnson
- I am Harriet Tubman, Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- Wilma Rudolph, fastest woman on Earth, by Jeri Cipriano ; illustrated by Scott R. Brooks
- Ablaze with color, a story of painter Alma Thomas, written by Jeanne Walker Harvey ; illustrated by Loveis Wise
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