Books to Help You Talk About Racism

Books are some of the best ways to have conversations about difficult topics with our children. These are books to help you talk with your kids about racism.

Also check out this list of our favorite books featuring diverse characters doing everyday life.

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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
Bud, Not Buddy
A Poem for Peter
The Red Pencil
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Award – Author Winner Title(s))
Elijah of Buxton
Pink and Say
The The Madman of Piney Woods
Stella by Starlight
Show Way
The Watcher
Piecing Me Together
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Sixteen Years In Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books)
Carter Reads the Newspaper
The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5): An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
Martin’s Big Words
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
Free As A Bird: The Story of Malala
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963
Brown Girl Dreaming
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