Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2025
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1974 -- honoring sensitive and accurate depictions of ethnicity and race relations in the United States
- 2,482 Resources including
- 190 Videos
- 105 Book Readings
- 162 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 235 book results
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
(Winner, 2022)
70+ Resources22 Awards
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Winner, 2015)
50+ Resources16 Awards
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales
(Honor, 2004)
40+ Resources9 Awards
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez
(Honor, 2018)
40+ Resources12 Awards
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
by Martha Brockenbrough, Grace Lin, and Julia Kuo
(Winner, 2022)
35+ Resources8 Awards
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison
(Honor, 2024)
35+ Resources14 Awards
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
(Winner, 2015)
35+ Resources13 Awards
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill and Bryan Collier
(Honor, 2011)
30+ Resources7 Awards
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
by Don Tate
(Winner, 2021)
30+ Resources5 Awards
Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
by Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr
(Winner, 2024)
30+ Resources7 Awards
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
(Winner, 2011)
30+ Resources4 Awards
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
by Ashley Bryan
(Winner, 2020)
30+ Resources12 Awards
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by Renée Watson and Christian Robinson
(Honor, 2013)
30+ Resources2 Awards
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
by Kelly Starling Lyons and Laura Freeman
(Honor, 2021)
30+ Resources5 Awards
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
(Winner, 2024)
25+ Resources11 Awards
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
by Matt de la Peña and Kadir Nelson
(Honor, 2012)
25+ Resources5 Awards
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
(Winner, 2018)
25+ Resources4 Awards
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
(Honor, 2020)
25+ Resources9 Awards
Because of You, John Lewis
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Keith Henry Brown
(Honor, 2023)
25+ Resources6 Awards
The Doll Test: Choosing Equality
by Carole Boston Weatherford and David Elmo Cooper
(Middle Winner, 2025)
25+ Resources4 Awards
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
(Honor, 2010)
25+ Resources7 Awards
Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools
(Secondary Winner, 2025)
25+ Resources10 Awards
Dear Benjamin Banneker
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
(Honor, 1996)
20+ Resources2 Awards
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
by Jabari Asim and Bryan Collier
(Winner, 2013)
20+ Resources3 Awards
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter
(Honor, 2017)
20+ Resources4 Awards
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
by Mélina Mangal and Luisa Uribe
(Winner, 2019)
20+ Resources4 Awards
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
by Heidi Tyline King and Ekua Holmes
(Honor, 2022)
20+ Resources4 Awards
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
by Tonya Bolden
(Winner, 2014)
20+ Resources7 Awards
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
(Honor, 2019)
20+ Resources5 Awards
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
by Gary D. Schmidt and Daniel Minter
(Honor, 2019)
20+ Resources4 Awards
The Rock in My Throat
by Kao Kalia Yang and Jiemei Lin
(Elementary Winner, 2025)
20+ Resources5 Awards
We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
by Mia Wenjen and Victor Bizar Gómez
(Middle Honor, 2025)
20+ Resources6 Awards
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn
(Winner, 2001)
20+ Resources4 Awards
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman and E.B. Lewis
(Honor, 2017)
20+ Resources7 Awards
