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Black History Month 2025: Books for Teens

Celebrate Black History Month 2025 with these books for teens that highlight this year's theme: The Shoulders We Stand On: The Impact of African American Contributions to Labor, Past and Present.

Chicago Public Library

15 items

  • American Wings

    Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

    Smith, Sherri L.,
    Book, 2024New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2024] — TL539.S633 2024
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — FICTION
  • Book, 2024New York : Dial Books, 2024. — FIC MARQUIS
  • A Quantum Life

    My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars

    Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata),
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023] — QB460.72.O48A3 2023
  • Represent

    the Unfinished Fight for the Vote

    Dyson, Michael Eric,
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2024] — JK1726.D97 2024
  • Shift Happens

    the History of Labor in the United States

    Mann, J. Albert,
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — HD8066.M35 2024
  • The Spirit of Freedom

    Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    Gitlin, Marty,
    Book, 2024Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024] — E185.61.G47 2024
  • Book, 2023Toronto [Ontario] : Annick Press Ltd., [2023] — FIC AMEYAW