| Black hands white sails : the story of African-American whalers | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 1999 | 639.2 MCK |
| A history of African-American whalers between 1730 and 1880, describing their contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement. |
| Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 1994 | 796.357 MCK |
| Traces the history of baseball in the Negro Leagues and its great heroes. |
| Young black and determined : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 1998 | 92 HAN |
| Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman? | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 1992 | 92 TRU |
| A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. |
| Days of Jubilee : the end of slavery in the United States | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 2003 | 973.7 MCK |
| Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States. |
| Color me dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love the great migration north | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 2000 | FIC MCK |
| Nellie Lee records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind. |
| Look to the hills : the diary of Lozette Moreau a French slave girl | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 2004 | FIC MCK |
| Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World. |
| Nzingha : warrior Queen of Matamba | McKissack, Patricia, 1944- | 2000 | FIC MCK |
| Presents the diaries of Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess. |