The African-American Experience

Book List created by the Schaumburg Township District Library

FICTION

FICTION BATTLE-LAVERT, G. Papa’s Mark by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert.
FICTION BRADBY, M. Some Friend by Marie Bradby.
FICTION CONLY, J. In the Night, on Lanvale Street by Jane Leslie Conly.
FICTION COPAGE, E. Between Father and Son: an African-American Fable by Eric Copage.
FICTION CURTIS, C. Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis.
FICTION FLOOD, P. Secret Holes by Pansie H. Flood.
FICTION HARRINGTON, J. Going North by Janice Harrington.
FICTION Hopkinson, D. From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story by Deborah Hopkinson.
FICTION JOHNSON, A. Bird by Angela Johnson.
FICTION JR HI GOING, K. The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going.
FICTION LESTER, J. The Old African by Julius Lester.
FICTION LESTER, J. Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester.
FICTION JR HI MOSLEY, W. 47 by Walter Mosley.
FICTION JR HI MYERS, W. The Dream Bearer by Walter Dean Myers.
FICTION NELSON, V. Almost to Freedom by Vaunda M. Nelson
FICTION QUATTLEBAUM, M. Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop by Mary Quattlebaum.
FICTION ROBINET, H. Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses by Harriette G. Robinet.
FICTION JR HI SIEGELSON, K. Trembling Earth by Kim Siegelson.
FICTION STEPTOE, J. The Jones Family Express by Javaka Steptoe.
FICTION WEATHERFORD, C. Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Weatherford.
FICTION JR HI WALVOORD, L. Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me! by Linda Walvoord.
FICTION WOODSON, J. Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson.
FICTION ZEE, R. Mississippi Morning by Ruth Vander Zee.
A Sampling of Nonfiction Material
759.13 GREENBERG Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories by Jan Greenberg.
796.4209 RUDOLPH Wilma Rudolph: the Greatest Woman Sprinter in History by Anne Schraff.
920 WEATHERFORD Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford.
921 BALDWIN James Baldwin: African-American Writer and Activist by Deborah Cannarella.
921 GARVEY Marcus Garvey: Controversial Champion of Black Pride by Anne Schraff.
921 JEMISON Mae Jemison by Thomas Streissguth.
921 TERRELL Mary Church Terrell: Speaking Out for Civil Rights by Cookie Lommel.
921 WALKER Alice Walker: African-American Author and Activist by Lucia Raatma.
940.54 DECAPUA, S. The Tuskegee Airmen: African-American Pilots of World War II by Sarah E. DeCapua.