Carter G. Woodson Book AwardSecondary Level

Given by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

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The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) established the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards for the most distinguished books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United show more States. First presented in 1974, this award is intended to “encourage the writing, publishing, and dissemination of outstanding social studies books for young readers that treat topics related to ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.” Books relating to ethnic minorities and the authors of such books rarely receive the recognition they merit from professional organizations. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (105), Honor Book (81), Outstanding Merit (39)
Categories:
All, Elementary Level (83), Middle Level (36), Middle/Secondary Level (3), Secondary Level (78), No Category (25)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (2), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (2), 2010 (2), 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (4), 1996 (2), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (3), 1989 (3)

Winner 34

WorkYear
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus) by Lawrence Goldstone2023
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace2022
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne2021
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield2019
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner2018
March: Books 1-3 by John Lewis2017
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery by Winifred Conkling2016
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin2015
Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man by Judith and Dennis Fradin2013
Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimner2012
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin2011
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum2010
Reaching Out by Francisco Jimenez2009
Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River by Vincent Collin Beach2008
Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim2007
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement (Civil Rights Leaders) by Calvin Craig Miller2006
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History) by Robert H. Mayer2005
History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers by James Tackach2004
The Mississippi Burning Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside2003
Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity: A Hot Issue (Hot Issues) by Barbara C. Cruz2002
Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin2001
Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit) by Sharon Linnéa2000
Children of the Tlingit (World's Children) by Frank J. Staub2000
Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Wolfe1999
Langston Hughes: Poet of the People by Milton Meltzer1998
Harlem Renaissance, The by Jim Haskins1997
A Fence Away From Freedom by Ellen S. Levine1996
Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader's Hist- Civil War) by Zak Mettger1995
The March on Washington by James Haskins1994
Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter1993
Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies) by Jeri Ferris1992
Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary E. Lyons1991
Paul Robeson, hero before his time by Rebecca Larsen1990
Marian Anderson (Impact Biographies) by Charles Patterson1989

Honor Book 29

WorkYear
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson2022
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang2021
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose2019
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery by Ray Anthony Shepard2018
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne2017
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle2017
Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History) by Michael Burgan2016
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People by S.D. Nelson2016
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin2015
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright2011
Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement) by Clifford W. Mills2010
When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime) by Robert H. Mayer2009
U.s. V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones) by Susan Dudley Gold2008
Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community by Gary Harwood2007
Uh Huh!: The Story of Ray Charles by John Duggleby2006
Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance by Barbara C. Cruz2005
Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (Carter G Woodson Honor Book (Awards)) by Martha E. Rhynes2004
Atlas of Asian-American History by Monique Avakian2003
Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song (Lerner Biographies) by Katherine E. Krohn2002
Issues in Racism (Contemporary Issues (Greenhaven)) by Mary E. Williams2001
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. Mckissack2000
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser2000
African Americans Who Made A Difference (Women Of Hope) by Joyce Hansen1999
The Way People Live - Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp by Diane Yancey1999
Slavery Time When I Was Chillun by Belinda Hurmence1998
The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Doreen Rappaport1998
The Tuskegee airmen : Black heroes of World War II by Jacqueline L. Harris1997
The Japanese American Family Album by Dorothy Hoobler1997
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom Diary by Michael O. Tunnell1997

Outstanding Merit 15

WorkYear
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by Patricia C. Mckissack1996
Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States by Roger C. Echo-Hawk1995
Harriet: The Life and World of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Norma Johnston1995
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton1994
Sequoyah's Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader by Janet Klausner1994
Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice by James Haskins1993
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Beatrice Siegel1993
Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim Haskins1992
Now is Your Time! : The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers1992
Breaking the Chains by William Loren Katz1991
W. E. B. Du Bois by Pat McKissack1991
New kids in town : oral histories of immigrant teens by Janet Bode1990
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Pat McKissack1990
Hispanic Voters: A Voice in American Politics by Judith Harlan1989
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby by Joseph Thomas Moore1989

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