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Adoff, Jaime		F Ado Jimi & Me. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun /Hyperion, c2005. After his father's tragic death, twelve-year-old Keith James moves from Brooklyn to a small midwestern town where his mixed race heritage is not accepted, but he finds comfort in the music of Jimi Hendrix and the friendship of a white classmate.

Angelou, Maya		811 Ang And Still I Rise. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1978. A collection of thirty-one poems written by Maya Angelou. 811 Ang A Brave and Startling Truth. New York : Random House, c1995. A poem of peace written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
		B ANG Gather Together In My Name. Bantam, 1974. Continues Angelou's autobiography. Part one is, "I know why the caged bird sings." As this book begins she is in her teens and has given birth to a son.

		B Ang I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York : Bantam, 1971, c1969.

		811 Ang I Shall Not Be Moved. New York : Bantam, 1991. A collection of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and tells of history and heartbreak and love.

		811 Ang Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'for I Die;. [1st ed.]. New York, : Random House, [1971]. They went home--The gamut --A Zorro man--To a man--(etc.).

		811 Ang Life Doesn't Frighten Me. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed in the U.S. by Workman Pub., 1993. Presents Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem on the theme of courage in everyday life.

		811 Ang Maya Angelou : Poems. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1986. Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I die--Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well--And still I rise --Shaker, why don't you sing?

		811 Ang Oh Pray My Wings Are gonna Fit Me Well. 1st ed. New York : Random House, [1975]. Pickin em up and layin em down--Here's to adhering-- On reaching forty--The telephone--(etc.).

		811 ANG On the Pulse of Morning. New York : Random House, c1993. "The inaugural poem"--Cover caption. "Read by the poet at the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 20 January 1993"--Prelim p.

		811 Ang Phenomenal Woman : Four Poems Celebrating Women. New York : Random House, c1994. Phenomenal woman -- Still I rise -- Weekend glory -- Our grandmothers. Set of four poems about women, their struggles and triumphs.

		811 Ang Poems. New York : Bantam Books, 1986. Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie -- Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well -- And still I rise -- Shaker, why don't you sing.

		811 Ang Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1983. A collection of poems by the author.

		B Ang A Song Flung Up To Heaven. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2002. An autobiography of civil rights worker and African American author Maya Angelou.

		814 Ang Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1993. The author shares her thoughts about spirituality and how it can move and shape our lives.

Baldwin, James		F BAL If Beale Street Could Talk. Laurel ed. New York : Dell, 1988, c1974. Two young black people are sustained by their love in their struggle against injustice and racial oppression. 812 Bal The Amen Corner. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1990, c1968.
		812 Bal Blues for Mister Charlie. New York, N.Y.: Dell, c1964.

		818.5409 BAL Conversations With James Baldwin. Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi, c1989. A collection of interviews covering the period 1961-1987 with the American author.

		305.896 BAL The Fire Next Time. New York : Vintage International Vintage Books, 1993. Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.

		F Bal Go Tell It On the Mountain. New ed. New York : Dell, 1985, c1953. A story of religious experience among Harlem blacks.

		SC Bal Going To Meet the Man. Dell, 1965. The rockpile.--The outing.--The man child.--Previous condition.--Sonny's blues.--This morning, this evening, so soon.--Come out the wilderness.--Going to meet the man.

		F Bal If Beale Street Could Talk. New York, : Dial Press, 1974.

		811 Bal Jimmy's Blues : Selected Poems. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1985. Staggerlee wonders--Song (for Skip)--Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)--The giver (for Berdis)--etc.

		814 Bal The Price of the Ticket : Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's/Marek, c1985. Contains three essays, The Fire Next Time; No Name in the Street; and, The Devil Finds Work, along with shorter pieces.

Billingsley, ReShonda Tate		F Bil With Friends Like These. Pocket Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Pocket Books, 2007. The close friendship of four girls is tested when they enter a competition to become the host of "Teen Talks." They find themselves lying about each other and risking their real dreams.

Bolden, Tonya		973.8 Bol Cause : Reconstruction America, 1863-1877. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2005. Describes reconstruction in the United States from 1863 to 1877. Focuses on attempts to reunite the country after the Civil War, the assassination of Lincoln and its impact, and the struggle to merge millions of freed slaves into the life of the nation. Discusses the passage of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments, and the emergence of women's rights.
		704.03 Bol Wake Up Our Souls : A Celebration of Black American Artists. New York : [Washington, D.C.] : Abrams ; Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2004. Explores the lives and creations of a select number of notable African-American men and women who have contributed to the American art scene.

Bontemps, Arna Wendell		301.45 Bon 100 Years of Negro Freedom. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980, c1961. Details Negro leadership in the United States from Frederick Douglas to Martin Luther King.

Brooks, Gwendolyn		811 Bro Children Coming Home. Chicago : The David Company, 1991. 811 Bro Aloneness. [1st ed.]. Detroit, : Broadside Press, [1971].
		811 Bro Beckonings : [poems]. 1st ed. Detroit : Broadside Press, c1975.

		811 Bro Blacks. Chicago : Third World Press, 1994, c1987. A street in Bronzeville -- Annie Allen -- Maud Martha -- The bean eaters -- 1963 -- In the Mecca -- To those of my sisters who kep their naturals -- Beckonings -- To disembark -- The near-Johannesburg boy.

		811 Bro Bronzeville Boys and Girls. New York,: Harper, [1956]. Simple poems that reflect the experiences and feelings of children living in big cities.

		811 Bro Family Pictures. [1st ed.]. Detroit,: Broadside Press, [1970].

		F Bro Maud Martha : a Novel. Chicago : Third World Press, 1993.

		811 Bro The Near-Johannesburg Boy : And Other Poems. Chicago : Third World Press, 1991, c1986. The near-Johannesburg boy -- Whitney Young -- Tornado at Talladega -- Telephone conversations -- To those of my sisters who kept their naturals -- In Nairobi -- The Chicago Picasso, 1986 -- Horses graze -- Building -- To a proper Black man -- Early Death : Of the Young Dead, To the young who want to die -- Shorthand possible -- The good man -- Infirm.

		811 Bro Primer for Blacks. Chicago : Third World Press, 1991, c1980. Three preachments : Primer for Blacks -- To those of my sisters who kept their naturals -- requiem before revival.

		B Bro Report From Part One. [1st ed.]. Detroit, : Broadside Press, [c1972].

		B Bro Report From Part Two. Chicago : Third World Press, 1996.

		811 Bro Selected Poems. [1st ed.]. New York,: Harper & Row, [1963]. Contains a selection of poems from three earlier books: "A Street in Bronzeville,""Annie Allen," and "The Bean Eaters" as well as some new selections.

		811 Bro To Disembark. Chicago : Third World Press, 1981. Riot -- family pictures -- to the diaspora -- beckonings.

		811 Bro Very Young Poets. Chicago, IL. (P.O. Box 19730, Chicago, IL 60619) : Third World Press, c1983, 1996. The author gives advice for writing poetry and presents several samples of her own work.

		811 Bro Winnie. Chicago : Third World Press, 1991, c1988.

Brown, Claude		B Bro Manchild in the Promised Land. New American Library, 1965. The autobiography of Claude Brown, describing his life and that of other black Americans in New York City's Harlem area.
Buckhanon, Kalisha		F Buc Upstate. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005. "Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen- year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York. Antonio and Natasha's world is turned upside down, and their young love is put to the test, when Antonio finds himself in jail, accused of a shocking crime. Antonio fights to stay alive on the inside, while on the outside, Natasha faces choices that will change her life. Over the course of a decade, they share a desperate correspondence. Often, they have only each other to turn to as life takes them down separate paths and leaves them wondering if they will ever find their way back together.

Butler, Octavia E		F But Parable of the Sower. 1st ed. New York : Four Walls Eight Windows : Warner, c1993. The odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. Set in the year 2025 in California.
Childress, Alice		F Chi A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich. New York, N.Y. : Avon, 1982, c1973. The life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem youth on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him. F CHI Rainbow Jordan. Avon, 1981. Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.

Cooper, Floyd		B HUG Coming Home : From the Life of Langston Hughes. New York : Philomel Books, c1994. Describes some of the boyhood experiences that influenced the development of the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

Curtis, Christopher Paul		F CUR Bucking the Sarge. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2004. Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. F Cur Bud, Not Buddy. New York : Delacorte Press, c1999. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

		F Cur The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 : a Novel. New York : Dell, 1997,c1995. The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Davidson, Dana		F Dav Played. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, c2005. Ian Striver's friend challenges him to have sex within three weeks with their plain, unpopular high-school classmate named Kylie Winship. Ian thinks it will be a breeze and that his success will make him a sure-thing among the popular kids. Kylie is suspicious of Ian, yet she is flattered that a hot guy is asking her out. When the relationship quickly gets heated, she must decide whether to follow her heart or use her head.

Dove, Rita		811 DOV Selected poems. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon, (1993). A selection of poems by the African American poet who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and was named Poet Laureate in 1993. 811 DOV Thomas and Beulah : poems. 1st ed. Pittsburgh : Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Press, 1986. A collection of poems, written by this winner of the 1987 Pulitzer prize for poetry, tells two sides of a story and is meant to be read in sequence.

Draper, Sharon M		F DRA The Battle of Jericho. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003. A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club. F Dra Copper Sun. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006. Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

		F Dra Forged By Fire. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997. Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

		F Dra Romiette and Julio. 1st ed. New York, NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

		F DRA Tears Of a Tiger. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994. The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence		811 Dun The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar,. New York : Dodd, 1929. 811 Dun Lyrics Of Lowly Life. 1st Carol Pub. ed. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub., 1991, c1984.

Ellison, Ralph		F ELL Invisible Man. Vintage ed. New York : Random House, 1989. Records a black American man's progression from youthful affirmation to a sense of total rejection. Includes a new introduction written by the author. F Ell Juneteenth : A Novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1999. A race-baiting senator from a New England state asks for a black minister on his deathbed and the two have a conversation that will change perceptions about identity and race.

Feelings, Tom		759.13 FEE The Middle Passage : White Ships/black Cargo. New York : Dial Books, 1995. A collection of narrative paintings, depicting the capture of African men and women and the horrible conditions they endured on their passage across the Atlantic to be sold into slavery.

Flake, Sharon		F Fla The Skin I'm In. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 1998. Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

		F Fla Who Am I Without Him? : Short Stories About Girls and the Boys In Their Lives. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2004. So I ain't no good girl -- The ugly one -- Wanted: a thug -- I know a stupid boy when I see one -- Mookie in love -- Don't be disrespecting me -- I like white boys -- Jacob's rules -- Hunting for boys -- A letter to my daughter. Presents ten short stories about teenage girls struggling with issues of self-worth.

Gaines, Ernest J		F Gai A Lesson Before Dying. New York : Knopf, 1993. The story of two young black men, one condemned to death for a murder and the other a teacher, who form a bond in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s.

		F GAI The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam, 1972, c1971. A 110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

		F Gai A Gathering of Old Men. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1992, c1983.

Giovanni, Nikki		811 Gio Blues : For All the Changes : New Poems. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1999. A collection of fifty-two new poems with themes that range from the environment to our reliance on manners, from sex and politics, to love among the people; there is a poem for every soul and every mood. 811 GIO Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day : Poems. 1st ed. New York : Quill/Morrow, c1978. Thirty-six poems by Nikki Giovanni, including "Introspection," "The Winter Storm,""Habits," "Choices," "Woman," "The Rose Bush," and "A Statement on Conservation.".
		811 Gio The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow and Co., c1996. A collection of poetry giving voice to the experience of Black people in America over the past twenty-five years. Arranged chronologically to reflect the changes the author has undergone in her life as a woman, lover, mother, teacher, and poet.

		811 Gio My House : Poems. New York : Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1981, c1972. Legacies--Mothers--A poem for Carol--A fishy poem--Winter poem--(etc.).

		814 Gio Sacred cows-- and other edibles. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c1988. A collection of autobiographical essays and articles by the Black poet, Nikki Giovanni.

		811 Gio Spin a Soft Black Song : Poems for Children. Rev. ed. {New York} : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987, c1985. A poetry collection which recounts the feelings of Black children about their neighborhoods, American society, and themselves.

		811 Gio Those Who Ride the Night Winds. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, 1983. Lorraine Hansberry--Hands : for Mother's Day--This is not for John Lennon--Mirrors--Linkage--Charles White --The Drum-- A Poem on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy--(etc.)

Guy, Rosa		F Guy The Disappearance. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1992, c1979. The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently come to live with them.

		F Guy Edith Jackson. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1992, c1978. A black teen-ager tries valiantly to keep her family together but sees her world collapse as her younger sisters reject her inept mothering.

		F Guy The Friends. New York : Bantam, 1974, c1973. Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.

		F Guy The Music of Summer. New York : Delacorte, 1992. The attractive, sophisticated young African-Americans gathered at Cape Cod have their own set of economic color prejudices; but Sarah begins to see more clearly the duties and hope of her ancestry.

		F Guy Ruby. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1992, c1976.

Grimes, Nikki		F Gri Bronx Masquerade. New York : Dial Books, c2002. While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

Haley, Alex		920 Hal Roots. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1977, c1976.

Hamilton, Virginia		398.2 HAM Her Stories : African American Folktales, Fairy tales, and True Tales. New York : Blue Sky Press, c1995. Little girl and Buh Rabby -- Lena and Big One Tiger -- Marie and Redfish -- Miz Hattie gets some company – Catskinella -- Good Blanche, Bad Rose, and talking eggs -- Mary Belle and the mermaid -- Mom Bett and her little ones a-glowing -- Who you! -- Macie and Boo Hag -- Lonna and Cat Woman -- Malindy and Little Devil -- Woman and man started even -- Luella and the tame parrot -- The mer-woman out of the sea -- Annie Christmas – Plantation times / Millie Evans – From way back Lettice Boyer – My family / Mary Lou Thornton. A collection of tales about the supernatural and animals, fairy tales, folk tales and legends, by and about African American women.

		F HAM The House of Dies Drear. New York : Macmillan, [1968]. An African-American family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

		291.2 Ham In the Beginning : Creation Stories From Around the World. San Diego : Harcourt, 1988. An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world.

		F Ham Justice and Her Brothers. 1st HBJ/Odyssey ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, {1989} c1978. An eleven-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.

		F Ham M.C. Higgins, the Great. 1st Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1987, c1974. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

		F Ham Plain City. New York, NY : Scholastic : Blue Sky, c1993. 12-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history.

		F HAM The Planet of Junior Brown. 1st Aladdin Books ed. New York : Macmillan, 1993. Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

		F Ham Second Cousins. New York : Scholastic, 1998. The friendship of twelve-year-old cousins Cammy and Elodie is threatened when the family reunion includes two other cousins near their age and Elodie is tempted to drop Cammy for a new companion.

		F Ham A White Romance. New York : Philomel Books, 1987. As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer.

		812 Han A Raisin in the Sun. New York : New American Library, 1961. A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a black middle-class family in Chicago.

Nemiroff, Robert		812 Nem To be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in her own words. New York, N.Y. : New American Library, 1970, c1969.

Hansen, Joyce		973.7 Han Between Two Fires : Black Soldiers in the Civil War. New York : Watts, c1993. Documents the recruitment, training, and struggles of African-American soldiers during the Civil War and examines the campaigns in which they participated. 305.5 HAN Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence : The Story of New York's African Burial Ground. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1998. Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of African-American people in Colonial times.

		973.8 HAN "Bury Me Not In a Land of Slaves" : African-Americans in the time of Reconstruction. New York, NY : F. Watts, c2000. An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

		F Han Which Way Freedom? New York : Walker, c1986. Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Haskins, James		973.7 HAS GetOn Board : The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York : Scholastic, c1993. Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom. B Jac I Am Somebody! : A Biography of Jesse Jackson. Hillside, New Jersey : Enslow, c1992. Presents the life, accomplishments, and goals of the civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson, from his childhood in South Carolina through his years in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

		973.7 HAS Black, Blue, & Gray : African Americans in the Civil War. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998. An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.

		792.8 Has Black Dance in America : a History Through Its People. 1st ed. New York : T.Y. Crowell, c1990. Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.

		381 Has The Consumer Movement. New York, : F. Watts, 1975. Describes the growing movement for consumer protection and stresses the importance of being an intelligent consumer.

		306 HAS From Afar to Zulu : A Dictionary of African Cultures. New York : Walker, 1995. Illustrations, maps, and photographs provide essential information on over 30 of Africa's most populous and well-known ethnic groups.

		973.8 HAS The Geography of Hope : Black Exodus From the South After Reconstruction. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c1999. Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.

		364.4 Has The Guardian Angels. Hillside, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, c1983. Traces the development of an organization of volunteers, dedicated to prevention of crime in the streets and on subways, founded by New Yorker Curtis Sliwa in 1979.

		700 HAS The Harlem Renaissance. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1996. Chronicles the early twentieth-century artistic and intellectual revolution in black America.

		B KIN I Have a Dream : The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1992. Presents the life of the noted civil rights worker, accompanied by extensive quotations from his speeches and writings.

		B Kin The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1977. A biography of a man who dedicated his life to the cause of civil rights, which also reexamines unanswered questions concerning his assassination.

		B FAR Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. New York : Walker and Co., 1996. A biography of the Afro-American who dreamed of a career as a violinist before joining the Nation of Islam and rising in its ranks, eventually becoming its leader.

		920 HAS One More River To Cross : the Stories of Twelve Black Americans. New York : Scholastic, 1992. Presents brief biographies of twelve African Americans who courageously fought against racism to become leaders in their fields, including Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X.

		352 Has A Piece of the Power; : Four Black Mayors. New York, : Dial Press, [1972]. Traces the life and careers of four black mayors: Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio; Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana; Charles Evers of Fayette, Mississippi; and Kenneth Gibson of Newark, New Jersey.

		362.4 Has The Quiet Revolution :The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Americans. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1979. Focuses on the human and civil rights the handicapped are campaigning for, and on the various methods they are using to bring change to society and make it more aware of the needs of the disabled.

		379.2 HAS Separate, But Not Equal : The Dream and the Struggle. New York : Scholastic, 1998. A history of African-American education, tracing the struggles of African-Americans for equal education rights from colonial times through the late twentieth century.

		B LEE Spike Lee : By Any Means Necessary. New York : Walker, 1997. Examines the life and works of the filmmaker who has chosen to explore the many dimensions of the African-American experience.

		B MOR Toni Morrison : Telling a Tale Untold. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2002. Introdution -- Superior people -- What it's like to be a grown-up -- Developing a canon of Black work -- Telling a tale untold -- America's storyteller -- Being there before the light arrives -- To write the book I'd like to read. Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Hughes, Langston		B Hug The Big Sea : An Autobiography. 2nd Hill and Wang ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 1993. 811 HUG The Block. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Viking, 1995. Theme for English B -- Projection -- Late last night -- As befits a man -- Juke box love song -- Testimonial -- Madam's calling cards -- Harlem night song -- To be somebody -- Corner meeting -- Note on the commercial theatre -- Stars. A collection of thirteen of Langston Hughes poems on African American themes.

		818 Hug The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. 16 vols. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2001.

		811 HUG The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. New York : Knopf, c1994. A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.

		814 Hug Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender : Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62. 261 p. : 22 cm.

		810.81 Hug The Langston Hughes Reader. [1st ed.]. New York, : G. Braziller, 1958.

Hurston, Zora Neale		B HUR Dust Ttracks On a Road. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York, N.Y. : HarperPerennial, 1991, c1942. 398.2 Hur Every Tongue Got To Confess : Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. A collection of African American folktales depicting life in the American South at the turn of the twentieth century. B HUR Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. New York : Library of America, c1995. Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles. Mules and men is the first book of African American folklore written by an African American. Tell my horse recounts the survival of African religions in Jamaican obeah and Haitian voodoo. Dust track on the road is Hurston's autobiography.

		398.208 Hur Go Gator and Muddy the Water : Writings. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1999. Presents a selection of writings by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leading authors of the Harlem Renaissance, and includes a biographical essay about Hurston.

		813 Hur I Love Myself When I Am Laughing--And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader. Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, c1979. Contains fourteen selections of Zora Neale Hurston's writing chosen for their literary quality and historical significance.

		F Hur Novels and Stories. New York : Library of America : Distributed by Penguin, 1995. Jonah's ggourd vine -- Their eyes were watching God --Moses, man of the mountain -- Seraph on the Suwanee --Selected stories. A companion to"Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, " this volume brings tomether nine short stories and four novels by the author.

		F Hur Their Eyes Were Watching God. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991. Janie Crawford, a proud and independent black woman, undertakes an extraordinary search for herself despite restrictive customs and values that don't serve freedom and love.

Kincaid, Jamaica		F Kin Annie John. New York : New American Library, 1986, c1985. A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance. F KIN Lucy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, c1990. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to work for Lewis & Mariah as an au pair for their four children. As Lucy is coming to terms with her employer's lives, she is unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. B KIN My Brother. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. A memoir in which the author recounts the death of her brother at the age of thirty-three from AIDS, and recalls incidents from his life, and the lives of other family members on the island of Antigua.

Johnson, James Weldon		782.42164 JOH Lift Every Voice and Sing. New York, NY : Walker, 1993. An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African-American national anthem.

Lester, Julius		398.2 Les Black Folktales. New York : Grove Press, 1992, c1969. Twelve tales of African and Afro-American origin include "How God Made the Butterflies," "The Girl With the Large Eyes," "Stagolee," and "People Who Could Fly."..

		F Les Day Of Tears : A Novel in Dialogue. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005. The Butler household is torn apart by differing beliefs regarding slavery. The mother and one daughter oppose slavery while the father, Pierce Butler, and another daughter believe in the Southern lifestyle. To pay off gambling debts, Pierce decides to host the largest slave auction in American history and breaks his word not to sell the family's slave Emma.

		F Les Do Lord Remember Me : A Novel. 1st ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985, c1984. As the Reverend Joshua Smith is dying, he begins to doubt--does God's hand truly direct our actions, our understanding, and our love?.

		306.3 LES From Slave Ship to Freedom Road. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1998. Presents the author's meditations on twenty paintings by artist Rod Brown, designed to encourage reflection on the hardships faced by African-American slaves until their emancipation.

		F LES Othello : A Novel. New York : Scholastic, c1995. A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

		973 Les Search For the New Land; : History As Subjective Experience. New York, : Dial Press, 1969.

		F Les Time's Memory. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation, where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.

		F Les When Dad Killed Mom. 1st ed. San Diego [Calif.] : Harcourt, Inc., c2001. After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps

McKissack, Pat		973.04 McK The Civil Rights Movement in America From 1865 To The Present. Chicago : Childrens Press, c1987. From the beginning of Reconstruction to the present, traces the struggle of blacks to gain their civil rights in America, with a brief comparison of their problems to those of other minorities.

		B Dou Frederick Douglass : The Black Lion. Chicago : Childrens Press, 1987. Describes the life and work of the man who escaped slavery to become an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the nineteenth century.

		B Jac Jesse Jackson : A Biography. New York : Scholastic, c1989. A biography of the Afro-American minister and civil rights worker who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

		306.3 Mck Rebels Against Slavery : American Slave Revolts. New York : Scholastic, c1996. Story of the men and women, slaves and free blacks, Northerners and Southerners, whites and Native Americans, who rebelled against the system of slavery, often giving up their lives in the process.

		940.54 Mck Red-tail Angels : The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. New York, NY : Walker and Co., 1995. A history of African American pilots with a focus on World War II.

		B Tru Sojourner Truth : Ain't I A Woman? New York : Scholastic, c1992. A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

		B Han Young, Black, and Determined : a Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, 1997. A biography of the black playwright who received great recognition for her work at an early age.

Marshall, Paule		F MAR Brown Girl, Brownstones. 1st Feminist Press ed. New York : Feminist Press, c1981. Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II. Selina, whose parents emigrated from Barbados, tries to overcome poverty and racism and make her new country home.

Morrison, Toni		F Mor Beloved : A Novel. New York : New American Library, 1988, c1987. Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past."She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.

		F Mor The Bluest Eye. New York : Knopf, 2000. An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.

		813.09 Mor Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1994. Collected interviews with Nobel prize winning author, Toni Morrison, revealing her feelings about her life and work as an African-American woman writer.

		815 MOR The Dancing Mind. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996. Contains the text of the acceptance speech made by Toni Morrison on the occasion of her being awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on November 6, 1996, in which she spoke of the pleasure, difficulties, and necessities of the reading/writing life.

		F Mor Jazz. New York : New American Library, 1993, c1992.

		F Mor Paradise. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There...where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose.".

		379.2 MOR Remember : The Journey to School Integration. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Presents a selection of archival photographs that document events surrounding the integration of U.S. schools following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and includes captions in which Toni Morrison imagines what the people in the pictures must have been thinking and feeling.

		F Mor Song of Solomon. New York : New American Library, 1987, c1977.

		F MOR Sula. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002, c1973. Traces the lives of two African-American heroines from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, to their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.

		F Mor Tar Baby. New York : New American Library, 1987, c1981.

Myers, Walter Dean		F Mye A Time To Love : Stories From The Old Testament. New York : Scholastic, 2003. A retelling of six stories from the Old Testament, which explore the complexity of love from the perspective of Ruth, Delilah, Reuben, Isaac, Aser, and Zillah. F Mye 145th Street : Short Stories. New York : Delacorte Press, c2000. Big Joe's funeral -- Baddest dog in Harlem -- Fighter -- Angela's eyes -- Streak -- Monkeyman -- Kitty and Mack: A love story -- Christmas story -- Story in three parts -- Block party-145th Street style. Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem. 326 Mye Amistad : A Long Road to Freedom. New York, NY : Dutton Children's Books, 1998. Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court. B Bon At Her Majesty's Request : An African Princess in Victorian England. 1st ed. New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 1999. Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. F MYE Autobiography Of My Dead Brother. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2005. Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend. B Mye Bad Boy : A Memoir. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2001. A memoir of the author's childhood in Harlem. F MYE The Beast. 1st ed. New York Scholastic, 2003. A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school. F Mye Darnell Rock Reporting. New York, NY : Delacorte Press : Dell, c1994. 13-year-old Darnell's twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he writes about a homeless man changes his attitude about school. F MYE Fallen Angels. New York : Scholastic Inc., c1988. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. F Mye Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff. New York : Puffin Books, 1988, c1975. New to 116th Street in New York, a young boy soon makes friends and begins a year of unusual experiences. F MYE The Glory Field. New York : Scholastic, c1994. Follows a family's two-hundred-fifty-year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants. B Ali The Greatest : Muhammad Ali. 1st ed. New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2001. A biography of the champion boxer and political activist, Muhammad Ali. Details the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, including his rise to athletic fame, the hazards of his sport which permanently affected him, and his battle with Parkinson's disease. F MYE Handbook For Boys : A Novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2002. Sixteen-year-old Jimmy, on probation for assault, talks about life with three old men in a Harlem barbershop and hears about the tools he can use to get what he wants. 811 MYE Harlem : A Poem. New York : Scholastic Press, c1997. A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem. 811 Mye Here in Harlem : Poems In Many Voices. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c2004. Presents fifty-four poems by Walter Dean Myers, written in the voices of people living and working in Harlem, the author's beloved hometown. F MYE Hoops. New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1983, c1981. A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake. B KIN I've Seen The Promised Land : The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2004. Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. F MYE The Journal of Joshua Loper : a Black Cowboy. New York, NY : Scholastic, 1999. In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss. B X Malcolm X : A Fire Burning Brightly. 1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins, c2000. Text and pictures describe the life and ideas of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X. F Mye Monster. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999. While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. F MYE Motown and Didi : A Love Story. Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1987, c1984. Motown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other.her. F Mye The Mouse Rap. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1990. During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. F Mye The Nicholas Factor : A Novel. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1983. College freshman Gerald McQuillen is recruited by a government agent to infiltrate an elitist international student society suspected of right-wing extremist tendencies. 973 MYE Now Is Your Time! : The African-American Struggle For Freedom. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1991. A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times. 973 MYE One More River To Cross : an African American Photograph Album. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1995. Photographic history of the lives of black Americans over the last 150 years, depicting the many roles they have taken and the victories they have achieved. F MYE The Outside Shot. Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1987. Recruited by a small Midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports. F Mye The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. Fifteen-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1882, to avenge the murder of his uncle. F MYE Scorpions. 1st HarperTrophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1990, c1988. After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. F MYE Shadow Of The Red Moon. New York : Scholastic, 1995. As the Fens attack his home in Crystal City, fifteen-year-old Jon is sent into the Wilderness with other young Okalians to search for the Ancient City, but what he finds is something very different. F Mye Shooter. 1st ed. New York : Harper Tempest, c2004. Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting. F MYE Slam! New York : Scholastic Inc., 1996. Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. F MYE Somewhere In The Darkness. New York : Scholastic, c1992. A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of, often painful, discovery for them both. F Mye Street Love. 1st ed. New York : Amistad / HarperTempest, c2006. This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.

Naylor, Gloria		F Nay The Women of Brewster Place. New York : Penguin Press, 1982. Dawn -- Mattie Michael -- Etta Mae Johnson -- Kiswana Browne -- Lucielia Louise Turner -- Cora Lee – The two -- The block party -- Dusk. A series of vignettes focusing on seven black women who are residents of Brewster Place. Shows how they react to certain situations is affected by their background, age, dreams, and problems.

Nelson, Marilyn		811 Nel Fortune's Bones : The Manumission Requiem. 1st ed. Asheville, NC : Front Street, c2004. Presents a short requiem poem in honor of an early African-American slave, Fortune. A biographical sketch accompanies the poem which offers images of the body and bones of Fortune. 811 Nel A Wreath for Emmett Till. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. A poem in memory of a boy whose death helped sparked the civil rights movement. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Louis Till was an African American lynched in 1955 for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Till's fate captured media attention when the men tried for his murder were acquitted.

Parks, Rosa		B Par Rosa Parks : My Story. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, 1992.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis		920 Pin Let It Shine : Stories of Black women Freedom Fighters. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, c2000. Sojourner Truth -- Biddy Mason -- Harriet Tubman -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Ella Josephine Baker -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Rosa Parks -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Shirley Chisholm. The ten freedom fighters featured in this book let their lights shine on the darkness of discrimination. The lives these women led are part of one incredible story. It's a story about courage in the face of nequality, oppression, prejudice, and fear. It's a story about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights. And it's a story about speaking out for what you believe. F Pin Raven In A Dove House. San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace, 1998. While twelve-year-old Nell and her fourteen-year-old cousin struggle with the loss of parents and other hardships, both African American youths learn to rely on themselves.

Porter, Connie Rose		F POR Imani All Mine. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Tasha, a fifteen-year-old mother, is proud of her baby girl and is determined to be a good parent to her child, but she must draw upon her newfound faith to go on when tragedy strikes.

Ringgold, Faith		F RIN Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad In The Sky. 1st ed. New York : Crown, 1993. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad. . B RIN We Flew Over the Bridge : The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1995. A memoir detailing Faith Ringgold's personal journey as an African American woman, artist and author.

Sapphire		F SAP Push : A Novel. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.New York : Vintage Books, 1997, 1996. Tells the story of Precious Jones, an African-American girl abused by her mother and raped by her father for years, who is put into an alternative school after her father impregnates her for the second time.

Taylor, Mildred D		F Tay The Land. New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, c2001. After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between two worlds as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. F Tay Let The Circle Be Unbroken. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1991, c1981. Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. F Tay The Road to Memphis. New York : Dial, 1990. A black youth severly injures another boy with a tire iron and then enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. F Tay Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1991, c1976. A Black family struggles to maintain their dignity and independence against prejudice and discrimination in Depression-era Mississippi. F Tay Song Of The Trees. New York : Bantam, 1979, c1975. Every morning Cassie would open her window to the trees that would greet her, but her mother had been forced to sell.

Thomas, Joyce Carol		F Tho Bright Shadow. New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1983. Abyssinia Jackson must learn to cope with tragedy when peace is shattered in her Oklahoma countryside and her boyfriend Carl Lee disappears. 811 THO A Mother's Heart, A Daughter's Love : Poems For Us to Share. 1st ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2001. A collection of poems written from the perspective of both daughter and mother. F Tho Water Girl. Avon, 1986.
Walker, Alice		F Wal The Color Purple. New York : Pocket Books, 1985, c1982. Sparing no details, Walker's novel vividly etches into the reader's experience what it means to be poor, to be abused, to be challenged, and to find self-worth. 811 WAL Her Blue Body Everything We Know : Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1991. A collection of Walker's new and unpublished poems with all her earlier poems, offering a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues of the last three decades. F Wal In Love & Yrouble : Stories Of Black Women. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1973. A collection of stories about African-American women living in the South and their struggles for dignity and love. 818 Wal In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983. Collects the nonfiction writings of the author of "The Color Purple.". F Wal Meridian. : Pocket Books, 1977, c1976. As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity and that of her people. 811 Wal Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harcourt Brace Hovanovich, [1973]. B WAL The Same River Twice : Honoring the Difficult : A meditation on life, spirit, art, and the making of the film, The color purple, ten years later. New York : Scribner, c1996. Reflections by the author on the period of time in her life when she went from being a reclusive writer to a public figure due to the filming of her book, The Color Purple. F WAL The Temple Of My Familiar. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1989. Three couples, two in crisis, talk about themselves and reconstruct the missing pieces of the past and in the end, they deeply affect one another. F WAL The Third Life Of Grange Copeland. New York : Pocket, 1988, c1970. A black tenant farmer flees Georgia for the North. Years later, he returns home to face his wife's death, his son's imprisonment, and a last chance at personal salvation. F Wal You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down : Stories. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1981. Nineteen Fifty-five--How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy--Elethia--The Lover--Petunias--Coming Apart--Fame--The Abortion--Porn--Advancing Luna-and Ida B. Wells--Laurel--A Letter of the Times, or Should This Sado-Masochism Be Saved?--A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring. Fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author about strong women--their struggles and joys.

Walter, Mildred Pitts		305.896 WAL Mississippi Challenge. 1st ed. New York : Bradbury, c1992. Describes the struggle for civil rights for the blacks in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965
Williams-Garcia, Rita		F WIL Blue Tights. New York : Bantam, 1989, c1988. Growing up in a city neighborhood, fifteen-year-old Joyce, unsure of herself and not quite comfortable with her maturing body, tries to find a place to belong. . F Wil Every Time a Rainbow Dies. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death. F WIL Fast Talk On a Slow Track. 1st ed. Dutton, 1991. Black honors student Denzel Watson spends his last summer before college selling candy door-to-door in New York, competing on many levels with the charismatic Mello, and discovering how to motivate and apply himself. F WIL Like Sisters on the Homefront. 1st ed. New York : Lodestar Books, c1995. Troubled fourteen-year-old Gayle is sent down South to live with her uncle and aunt, where her life begins to change as she experiences the healing power of the family. F Wil No Laughter Here. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004. In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.

Williams, Lori Aurelia.		F Wil Broken China. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2005. China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed Uncle Simon for support, takes on tremendous personal debt in hopes of a beautiful funeral after her daughter dies. F Wil When Kambia Elaine Flew In from Neptune. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000. Young Shayla Dubois's world has turned upside down. Her mother kicked her older sister out of the house, and the new girl on the street is always telling strange stories, which Shayla soon realizes is this girl's way of dealing with the horrible abuse at home.

Woodson, Jacqueline		F Woo Behind You. New York : Putnam's, c2004. After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them. F WOO From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. New York : Blue Sky Press, 1995. Thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. F WOO The House You Pass On the Way. New York : Delacorte Press, c1997. When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self. F WOO Hush. New York : Putnam's, 2002. Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program. F WOO I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This. New York, NY : Delacorte : Laurel Leaf Books, c1994. Marie, the only black girl in the 8th grade willing to befriend white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. F WOO If You Come Softly. New York : G.P. Putnam's, [1998]. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions. F WOO Locomotion. New York : Putnam, 2003. In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school. F Woo Miracle's Boys. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2000. Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
Wright, Richard		B Wri Black Boy : a Record of Childhood and Youth. New York : Harper & Row, c1966. 811 WRI Haiku : This Other World. New York : Arcade Pub., 1998. A collection of 817 haiku written by African-American author Richard Wright during the last eighteen months of his life, in which he focuses on man's relationship to nature and the natural world. F Wri Native Son and How "Bigger" Was Born. New York : HarperCollins, c1993. The text of Native Son as restored by The Library of America was published in 1991 in a volume entitled Richard Wright: Early Works. Portions of Wright's essay, How "Bigger" Was Born, first appeared in 1940 in The Saturday Review of Literature; the essay was printed in its entirety by Harper & Brothers as a pamphlet later in 1940. F Wri Rite Of Passage. New York : HarperCollins, c1994. When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging.

X, Malcolm		B X The Autobiography Of Malcolm X. New York : Ballantine Books, 1965. This hardcover edition of the modern classic, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just as his experience and his intelligence continue to speak to millions on the greatest issue of our day: the ongoing African-American struggle for social and economic equality.