Books for the Black Lives Matter Week of Action
Thanks to the generosity of the publishers below, educators received free books for use in their classrooms at several events leading up to the 2020 Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, including the Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair.
For additional titles and booklists, please see our lists for early childhood/elementary and middle/high school.
Annick Press
El Abuelo by Debbie Bailey
I Love My Purse by Belle DeMont
Bloomsbury
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson
Candlewick Press
B is for Baby by Atinuke
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff,William Low
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
City Lights Books
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long
Dial Books
Mamas Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat and Leslie Staub
Faber and Faber
My Hair by Hannah Lee, Allen Fatimaharan
Groundwood Books
Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings by Francie LaTour
Haymarket Books
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
A Beautiful Ghetto by Devin Allen
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Missing Daddy by Mariame Kaba
Palante by Young Lords Party
The Black Power Mixtape edited by Göran Olsson
Lerner Publishing Group
Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight
The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R Gregory Christie
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey
Macmillan Publishing Group
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renee Watson
The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan
Mama Africa: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song by Kathryn Erskine
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary Schmidt
Penguin Randomhouse
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons
Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hair Love by Vashti Harrison and Michael Cherry
Islandborn/ Lola by Junot Díaz
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story about a Simple Act of Kindness by Kerascoët
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
PET by awaeke emezi
Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
This is the Rope, A Story of the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
Scholastic Press
My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney
Simon and Schuster
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop by Carole Boston Weatherford, Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales
St. Martin's Press
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele