Book Awards & Distinctions
for Carole Boston Weatherford

3 Lifetime Achievement Awards 171 Total Book Awards

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre is on 19 State Lists

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement is on 2 State Lists

How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee is on 7 State Lists

Freedom in Congo Square
Freedom in Congo Square is on 3 State Lists

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library is on 2 State Lists

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom is on 1 State List

Standing in the Need of Prayer
Standing in the Need of Prayer is on 1 State List

Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope is on 1 State List

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom is on 2 State Lists

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul is on 7 State Lists

The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop is on 4 State Lists

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane is on 5 State Lists

A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington is on 2 State Lists

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen is on 1 State List

Birmingham, 1963
Birmingham, 1963 is on 3 State Lists

Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect

Dear Mr. Rosenwald

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America is on 1 State List

In Your Hands

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson is on 1 State List

By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison

Crowning Glory
Crowning Glory is on 1 State List

The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom is on 1 State List

Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show

Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson's Imagination

Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday is on 4 State Lists

Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples

Bros
Bros is on 1 State List

The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice

Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's

How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace is on 1 State List

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Me and the Family Tree

A Negro League Scrapbook

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People

Schomburg: El Hombre Que Creó Una Biblioteca

The Sound That Jazz Makes

Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood is on 1 State List