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General winners (1974–1988) |
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- Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (1974)
- Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers by Jesse Jackson (1975)
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1976)
- The Trouble They Seen by Dorothy Sterling (1977)
- The Biography of Daniel Inouye by Jan Goodsell (1978)
- Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations edited by Peter Nabokov (1979)
- War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute by Nancy Wood (1980)
- The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (1981)
- Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Carver and Paula McGuire (1982)
- Morning Star, Black Sun by Brent Ashabranner (1983)
- Mexico and the United States by E.B. Fincher (1984)
- To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent Ashabranner (1985)
- Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent Ashabranner (1986)
- Happily May I Walk by Arlene Hirschfelder (1987)
- Black Music in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins (1988)
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Secondary level winners (grades 7–12, 1989–2019) |
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- Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (1989)
- Paul Robeson by Rebecca Larsen (1990)
- Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neal Hurston by Mary E. Lyons (1991)
- Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris (1992)
- Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1993)
- The March on Washington by James Haskins (1994)
- Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Zak Mettger (1995)
- A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II by Ellen Levine (1996)
- The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins (1997)
- Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (1998)
- Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (1999)
- Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea (2000)
- Tatan’ka Iyota’ke: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (2001)
- Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity by Barbara C. Cruz (2002)
- The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside (2003)
- Early Black Reformers by James Tackach (2004)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 edited by Robert H. Mayer (2005)
- No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2006)
- Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim (2007)
- Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach (2008)
- Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez (2009)
- Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (2010)
- An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine M. Alphin (2011)
- Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connors by Larry Dane Brimner (2012)
- Stolen into Slavery the True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man by Judith Fradin and Dennis Fradin (2013)
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- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (2015)
- Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery by Winifred Conkling (2016)
- March (Trilogy) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2017)
- Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner (2018)
- A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield (2019)
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Middle level winners (grades 5–8, 2001–2019) |
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- Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2001)
- Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkel (2002)
- Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (2003)
- In America’s Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu (2004)
- The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2005)
- César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Bárbara Cruz (2006)
- Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (2007)
- Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman (2008)
- Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow by James Haskins and Kathleen Benson with Virginia Schomp (2009)
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (2010)
- (none in 2011)
- Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (2012)
- Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum (2013)
- Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (2014)
- The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield (2015)
- (none in 2016)
- (none in 2017)
- Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (2018)
- America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience From A to Z by Wendy Ewald (2019)
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Middle/Secondary level winners (grades 5–12, since 2020) |
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- Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (2020)
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Elementary level winners (grades K–6, since 1989) |
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- Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris (1989)
- In Two Worlds: A Yup’ik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness and Alice Rivers (1990)
- Shirley Chisolm by Catherine Scheader (1991)
- The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i by Fay Stanley (1992)
- Madam C.J. Walker by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (1993)
- Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter by Mary E. Lyons (1994)
- What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson by Jeri Ferris (1995)
- Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave by Monty Roessel (1996)
- Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (1997)
- Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)
- Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (1999)
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (2000)
- The Sound that Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (2001)
- Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter by Nanette Mellage (2002)
- Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia by Richard Griswold del Castillo (2003)
- Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich (2004)
- Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac (2005)
- Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven (2006)
- John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson (2007)
- Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise (2008)
- Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni (2009)
- Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo (2010)
- Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2011)
- Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist adapted by Gina Capaldi and Q. L. Pearce (2012)
- Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim (2013)
- Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne Rockwell (2014)
- Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (2015)
- Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (2016)
- Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel (2017)
- The Youngest Marcher—The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson (2018)
- The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal (2019)
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (2000)
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