Modern Black American Authors
The author wrote the Make Way for Dymonde Daniel Series, Garvey's Choice and Words with Wings.
Nikki Grimes
He was the first black president of the United States.
Barack Obama
This author wrote Bluish, M.C. Higgins the Great, Zeeley and The People Could Fly. This author won the National Book Award for Children's Books, The Coretta Scott King Award and The John Newberry Medal. There is now a book award named in honor of her.
Virginia Hamilton
This civil rights leader graduated college at age 15.
Martin Luther King.
This author received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for novel Beloved. She wrote many books including, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Jazz and Song of Solomon.
Toni Morrison
This abolitionist leader led 13 missions freeing approximately 70 enslaved people via the Underground Railroad. In addition, this leader served as a spy and a scout for the Union army during the American Civil War.
Harriet Tubman
This novelist won one Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Underground Railroad and another in 2020 for The Nichol Boys. He is one of only four authors to win the Pulitzer prize twice.
Colson Whitehead
This leader connected the notion of civil rights of African Americans in the United States to the human rights of all people in the world.
Malcom X
This novelist writes for children and adults. She is the author of Feathers, Hush and Harbor Me. Her verse novel Brown Girl Dreaming and her children's book, The Day You Begin, are banned in some school districts in Florida and Texas.
Jacqueline Woodson
This abolitionist leader wrote, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.
Federick Douglass