Summer Reading 2026: Black History at 6th to 8th Grade Level

Here are nine eBooks on African American History written at the 6th- to 8th-grade level. These free ebooks have not been banned from classrooms. Rather, they are not available because many administrators do not believe that the volume of reading matters to high school students.

Each link provides a button to download the ebook and a short description of the content. The titles are:

The Long Black Schooner by Emma Gelders Sterne: The Voyage of the Amistad

Revolts, Resistance and Emancipation by Dorothy Sterling: How Slaves and Society Resisted Slavery

The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves by Benjamin Drew: Fleeing to Safety in Canada

Three Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass: How He Led the Abolitionist Struggle against Slavery

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson: His Travels in the North and South

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay: Life in Harlem in the 1920s

Fire in the Flint by Walter E. White: A Doctor Returns to the Jim Crow South

W. E. B. Du Bois by Emma Gelders Sterne: A Founder of the N.A.A.C.P

Mary McLeod Bethune by Emma Gelders Sterne: She Defended the Right to Vote and Built a College

This epub has links to all of the ebooks above
The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon.

Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here.