RIYL African American Heritage

February is African American History Month

See Also:

• Diverse Books

• Martin Luther King Jr. Blackout Poetry

African American Authors:

Tomi Adeyemi

Kwame Alexander

Maya Angelou

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Jerry Craft

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bryan Collier

Christopher Paul Curtis

Sharon M. Draper

Sharon G. Flake

Nikki Grimes

Virginia Hamilton

Langston Hughes

John Lewis

Christopher Myers

Walter Dean Myers

Toni Morrison

Kadir Nelson

Jason Reynolds

Faith Ringgold

Christian Robinson

Sharon Robinson

Rachel Renee Russell

Earl Sewell

Tupac Shakur

Octavia Spencer

Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Ronald L. Smith

Nic Stone

Amar’e Stoudemire

Angie Thomas 

Renee Watson

Rita Williams-Garcia

Stanley Tookie Williams

Alice Walker

Jacqueline Woodson

Malcolm X

Nonfiction:

92 Biography

Mohammad Ali

Maya Angelou

Crispus Atticus

Mary McLeod Bethune

Ruby Bridges

Gwendolyn Brooks

Kobe Bryant

George Washington Carver

Misty Copeland

Michaela DePrince

Ella Fitzgerald

Langston Hughes

Lebron James

Michael Jordan

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coretta Scott King

Elijah Muhammad

Toni Morrison

Barak Obama

Michelle Obama

Rosa Parks

Jackie Robinson

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Oprah Winfrey

Malcolm X

Dewey Numbers to include:

081 Quotations

306 Slavery

323 Civil Rights Movement

326 Abolitionists

379 Integration of Schools

741.5 Graphic Novels

• March by John Lewis Volumes 1-3

• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

• New Kid by Jerry Craft

811 African American Poets

920 Collected Biography

940.544 The Tuskegee Airmen

Don't forget to look at your Picture Book Section as Well!

Resources:

• African American Heritage on TeachingBooks.net

• African American History Month.GOV

• African American History from Free Library of Philadelphia

• The Undefeated 44 most influential African Americans

• Black History Month Lessons from NEA

• The Problem of Black History Month from The Advocate

• African American Biography Project from Hugh B. Bain Middle School