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