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Across African American, People & Places, United States, and Juvenile Nonfiction — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange.

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Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song — Andrea Davis Pinkney

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Day of Tears — Julius Lester

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Malcolm X A Fire Burning Brightly — Walter Dean Myers

Malcolm X A Fire Burning Brightly

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! — Jonah Winter

You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Freedom Song The Story of Henry “Box” Brown — Sally M. Walker

Freedom Song The Story of Henry “Box” Brown

Sally M. Walker

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Harlem’s Little Blackbird — Renee Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird — Renee Watson

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Muhammad Ali A Champion Is Born — Gene Barretta

Muhammad Ali A Champion Is Born

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

When Harriet Met Sojourner — Catherine Clinton

When Harriet Met Sojourner

Catherine Clinton

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Michael Jordan A Life Above the Rim — Robert Lipsyte

Michael Jordan A Life Above the Rim

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Bad Boy A Memoir — Walter Dean Myers

Bad Boy A Memoir

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Hold the Flag High — Catherine Clinton

Hold the Flag High

Catherine Clinton

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — Martin Luther King, III

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, III

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 — Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Who Was Rosa Parks? — Yona Zeldis McDonough

Who Was Rosa Parks?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Trombone Shorty — Troy Andrews

Trombone Shorty

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Who was Jackie Robinson? — Gail Herman

Who was Jackie Robinson?

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Don’t Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr. — Kenneth C. Davis

Don’t Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr.

Kenneth C. Davis

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Building a New Land African Americans in Colonial America — James Haskins

Building a New Land African Americans in Colonial America

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

RESPECT Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul — Carole Boston Weatherford

RESPECT Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Carole Boston Weatherford

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Nobody Owns the Sky The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman — Reeve Lindbergh

Nobody Owns the Sky The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman

Reeve Lindbergh

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Freedom’s Children Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories — Ellen Levine

Freedom’s Children Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Shades of Black A Celebration of Our Children — Sandra L. Pinkney

Shades of Black A Celebration of Our Children

Sandra L. Pinkney

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

Bronzeville Boys and Girls — Gwendolyn Brooks

Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Gwendolyn Brooks

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

I Have a Dream — Martin Luther King (Jr.)

Martin Luther King (Jr.)

Themes: African American • People & Places • United States

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of African American, People & Places, United States — the same threads that run through Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange. Among the authors featured: Andrea Davis Pinkney, Julius Lester, Walter Dean Myers, Jonah Winter, and others.

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