Carter G. Woodson Award (1974-2006)

The National Council for Social Studies established the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for children that depict ethnicity in the United States. The Award hopes to encourage the writing and reading of outstanding books that depict ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.

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The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Carter G. Woodson Award.

Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven (2006)

Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Barbara Cruz (2006)

No Easy Answers: Baynard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2006)

Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchach (2005)

Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2005)

Rights Act of 1964 Edited by Rober H. Mayer (2005)

Sacagawea by Lise Erdrich (2004)

In America's Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu (2004)

Early Black Reformers edited by James Tackach (2004)

Cesar Chevez: The Struggle for Justice by Richard Griswold del Castillo (2003)

Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (2003)

The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside (2003)

Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitter by Nanette Mellage (2002)

Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkle (2002)

Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity by Barbara C. Cruz (2002)

The Sound that Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (2001)

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2001)

Tatan'ka Iyota'ke: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (2001)

Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (2000)

Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea (2000)

Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (1999)

Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (1999)

Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)

Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (1998)

Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (1997)

The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins (1997)

Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave by Monty Roessel (1996)

A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II by Ellen Levine (1996)

What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson by Jeri Ferris (1995)

Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Zak Mettger (1995)

Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter by Mary Lyons (1994)

The March on Washington by James Haskins (1994)

Madam C.J. Walker by Patricia and Frederick McKissack (1993)

Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1993)

The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'lolani of Hawai'i by Fay Stanley (1992)

Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris (1992)

Shirley Chisolm by Catherine Scheader (1991)

Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neal Hurston by Mary Lyons (1991)

In Two Worlds: A Yup'ik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness and Alice Rivers (1990)

Paul Robeson by Rebecca Larsen (1990)

Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris (1989)

Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (1989)

Black Music in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins (1988)

Happy May I Walk by Arlene Hirschfelder (1987)

Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent Ashabranner (1986)

To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent Ashabranner (1985)

Mexico and the United States by E.B. Fincher (1984)

Morning Star, Black Sun by Brent Ashabranner (1983)

Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Carver and Paula McGuire (1982)

The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (1981)

War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute by Nancy Wood (1980)

Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations edited by Peter Nabokov (1979)

The Biography of Daniel Inouye by Jan Goodsell (1978)

The Trouble They Seen edited by Dorothy Sterling (1977)

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1976)

Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers by Jesse Jackson (1975)

Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (1974)