Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
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
Sponsored by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
![Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/list_image/1109.gif)
- 2,597 Resources including
- 195 Videos
- 98 Book Readings
- 153 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 230 book results
![Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73500_hi.jpg)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
(Winner, 2022)
68 Resources22 Awards
![Dragon Hoops](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/68413_hi.jpg)
![Undefeated, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/62315_hi.jpg)
![Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419710540.jpg)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Winner, 2015)
47 Resources16 Awards
![March Book Three](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1603094024.jpg)
![Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0152014373.jpg)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales
(Honor, 2004)
41 Resources9 Awards
![I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031642692X.jpg)
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
by Martha Brockenbrough, Grace Lin, and Julia Kuo
(Winner, 2022)
41 Resources8 Awards
![Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/076368046X.jpg)
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez
(Honor, 2018)
40 Resources12 Awards
![Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0374313229.jpg)
![Port Chicago 50, The: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1596437960.jpg)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
(Winner, 2015)
32 Resources13 Awards
![Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1561458252.jpg)
![How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/87921_hi.jpg)
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison
(Honor, 2024)
32 Resources15 Awards
![William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1561459356.jpg)
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
by Don Tate
(Winner, 2021)
31 Resources5 Awards
![Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031610731X.jpg)
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill and Bryan Collier
(Honor, 2011)
29 Resources7 Awards
![Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/080285379X.jpg)
![Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/67286_hi.jpg)
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
by Ashley Bryan
(Winner, 2020)
29 Resources12 Awards
![Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0593406478.jpg)
Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
by Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr
(Winner, 2024)
29 Resources7 Awards
![Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0375869735.jpg)
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by Renée Watson and Christian Robinson
(Honor, 2013)
28 Resources2 Awards
![Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0316070165.jpg)
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
(Winner, 2011)
27 Resources4 Awards
![Youngest Marcher, The: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1481400703.jpg)
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
(Winner, 2018)
27 Resources4 Awards
![Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1620149559.jpg)
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
by Kelly Starling Lyons and Laura Freeman
(Honor, 2021)
27 Resources5 Awards
![This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1681198525.jpg)
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
(Honor, 2020)
26 Resources9 Awards
![My Powerful Hair](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1419759434.jpg)
![Nation's Hope, A: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0803731671.jpg)
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
by Matt de la Peña and Kadir Nelson
(Honor, 2012)
24 Resources5 Awards
![Fred Korematsu Speaks Up](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1597143685.jpg)
![Carter Reads the Newspaper](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1561459348.jpg)
![Because of You, John Lewis](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1338759086.jpg)
Because of You, John Lewis
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Keith Henry Brown
(Honor, 2023)
24 Resources6 Awards
![Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0451481542.jpg)
![Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/87998_hi.jpg)
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
(Winner, 2024)
23 Resources11 Awards
![Vast Wonder of the World, The: Biologist Ernest Everett Just](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1512483753.jpg)
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
by Mélina Mangal and Luisa Uribe
(Winner, 2019)
22 Resources4 Awards
![Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1620141485.jpg)
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter
(Honor, 2017)
21 Resources4 Awards
![So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1626728720.jpg)
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
by Gary D. Schmidt and Daniel Minter
(Honor, 2019)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1101996293.jpg)
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
by Heidi Tyline King and Ekua Holmes
(Honor, 2022)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Through My Eyes](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0590189239.jpg)
![Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0823420310.jpg)
![Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0822567644.jpg)
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
(Honor, 2010)
20 Resources7 Awards
![Dear Benjamin Banneker](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0152004173.jpg)
![Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0316086576.jpg)
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
by Jabari Asim and Bryan Collier
(Winner, 2013)
20 Resources3 Awards
![Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1629798169.jpg)
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men
by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
(Winner, 2022)
20 Resources6 Awards
![Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0064461203.jpg)
![First Step, The: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0802737390.jpg)
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman and E.B. Lewis
(Honor, 2017)
19 Resources7 Awards
![Few Red Drops, A: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544785134.jpg)
![Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0374306125.jpg)
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
(Honor, 2019)
19 Resources5 Awards
![Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/015201005X.jpg)
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn
(Winner, 2001)
18 Resources4 Awards
![Jim Thorpe's Bright Path](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/158430166X.jpg)
![Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0394828739.jpg)
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
by Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon
(Honor, 1994)
18 Resources2 Awards
![Sound That Jazz Makes, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0802787207.jpg)
The Sound That Jazz Makes
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez
(Winner, 2001)
18 Resources1 Awards
![Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419703900.jpg)
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
by Tonya Bolden
(Winner, 2014)
18 Resources7 Awards