- March Forward, Girl from Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Patillo Beals
- The Tuskegee Airmen, Freedom Flyers of World War II by Brynn Baker
- The Port Chicago Fifty, Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
- Slavery and the Underground Railroad by Carin T. Ford
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- When Harriet met Sojourner by Catherine Clinton
- Freedom Summer, the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin
- Lincoln and Douglas, An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni
- The Teacher’s March! How Selma’s Teachers Changed History by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
- Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlen Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill