Books like Discovering Wes Moore

#1

Warriors Don’t Cry

Melba Beals

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Young Adult Nonfiction • Social Topics

#2

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Young Adult Nonfiction • Social Topics

#3

American Patriots The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm

Gail Lumet Buckley

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Social Topics • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#4

The Autobiography of an American Ghetto Boy The 1950’s and 1960’s from the Projects to NAACP Image Award Winner

Tony Rose

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Criminology

#5

Citizen Outlaw One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper

Charles Barber

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Criminology

#6

The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Young Adult Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#7

Dreaming In Color Living In Black And White Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America

Laurel Holliday

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Social Topics • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#8

Hellhound on His Trail The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Hampton Sides

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#9

Trust the Grind How World-Class Athletes Got to the Top

Jeremy Bhandari

Themes: Inspirational & Personal Growth • Boys & Men • Young Adult Nonfiction

#10

The Isaiah Fountain Case

Joseph Koper

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Criminology • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#11

I Am Troy Davis

Jen Marlowe

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Criminology

#12

Redbone Money, Malice, and Murder in Atlanta

Ron Stodghill

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Criminology

#13

Monster The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Sanyika Shakur

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Criminology

#14

Double Victory How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II

Cheryl Mullenbach

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Young Adult Nonfiction • Ethnic Studies

#15

Bad The Autobiography of James Carr

James Carr

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#16

Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson

George Jackson

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

Keep Your Airspeed Up The Story of a Tuskegee Airman

Harold H. Brown

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#18

African American Warrant Officers Preserving Their Legacy

Farrell J. Chiles

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#19

Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality

Elizabeth D. Leonard

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#20

Joe, the Slave who Became an Alamo Legend

Ron Jackson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#21

The Wounded World W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

Chad L. Williams

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#22

African American Warrant Officers…in Service to Our Country

Farrell J. Chiles

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#23

Mr. and Mrs. Prince How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend

Gretchen Gerzina

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#24

African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention

Ray Spangenburg

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies