| Year | Call # | Author | Title |
| 2010 | J Bio Reeves | Nelson | Bad News for Outlaws |
| 2009 | J 796.357 | Nelson | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball |
| 2008 | J Fic | Curtis | Elijah of Buxton |
| 2007 | YA Fic | Draper | Copper Sun |
| 2006 | J Fic | Lester | Day of Tears: a novel in dialogue |
| 2005 | J 379.263 | Morrison | Remember: The Journey to School Integration |
| 2004 | YA Fic | Johnson | The First Part Last |
| 2003 | YA Fic | Grimes | Bronx Masquerade |
| 2002 | YA Fic | Taylor | The Land |
| 2001 | YA Fic | Woodson | Miracle’s Boys |
| 2000 | YA Fic | Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy |
| 1999 | YA Fic | Johnson | Heaven: A Novel |
| 1998 | YA Fic | Draper | Forged by Fire |
| 1997 | YA Fic | Myers | Slam! |
| 1996 | J 398.208996 | Hamilton | Her Stories |
| 1995 | J 394.2663 (Holiday) | McKissack | Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters |
| 1994 | J Fic | Johnson | Toning the Sweep |
| 1993 | J Fic | McKissack | The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural |
| 1992 | J 973 | Myers | Now is Your Time!: African-American Struggle for Freedom |
| 1991 | YA Fic | Taylor | The Road to Memphis |
| 1990 | J 331.88 | McKissack | A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter |
| 1989 | YA Fic | Myers | Fallen Angels |
| 1988 | J Fic | Taylor | The Friendship |
| 1987 | J Fic | Walter | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World |
| 1986 | J 398.208996 | Hamilton | The People could Fly: American Black Folktales |
| 1985 | do not have | Myers | Motown and Didi |
| 1984 | E | Clifton | Everett Anderson’s Goodbye |
| 1983 | YA Fic | Hamilton | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
| 1982 | J Fic | Taylor | Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
| 1981 | do not have | Poitier | This Life |
| 1980 | YA Fic | Myers | The Young Landlords |
| 1979 | J 812.54 | Davis | Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass |
| 1978 | E | Greenfield | Africa Dream |
| 1977 | do not have | Haskins | The Story of Stevie Wonder |
| 1976 | do not have | Bailey | Duey’s Tale |
| 1975 | do not have | Robinson | The Legend of Africania |
| 1974 | J B Charles | Mathis | Ray Charles |
| 1973 | B Robinson | Robinson | I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson |
| 1972 | do not have | Fax | Seventeen Black Artists |
| 1971 | do not have | Rollins | Black Troubador: Langston Hughes |
| 1970 | J B King | Patterson | Martin Luther King Jr: Man of Peace |
| Year | Call # | Illustrator | Title |
| 2010 | E Hughes | Smith | My People |
| 2009 | J 811.54 Thomas | Cooper | The Blacker the Berry |
| 2008 | J 782.253 Bryan | Bryan | Let it Shine |
| 2007 | E Weatherford | Nelson | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
| 2006 | E Giovanni | Collier | Rosa |
| 2005 | E Shange | Nelson | Ellington Was Not a Street |
| 2004 | J 398.2096 Bryan | Bryan | Beautiful Blackbird |
| 2003 | E Grimes | Lewis | Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
| 2002 | E McKissack | Pinkney | Goin’ Someplace Special |
| 2001 | E Collier | Collier | Uptown |
| 2000 | E Siegelson | Pinkney | In the Time of the Drums |
| 1999 | J 780.8996 Igus | Wood | I See the Rhythm |
| 1998 | J 811.008 In | Steptoe | In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall |
| 1997 | J B Tubman | Pinkney | Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
| 1996 | 759.13 Feelings | Feelings | The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo |
| 1995 | J 213 Creation | Ransome | The Creation |
| 1994 | J 811 Soul | Feelings | The Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
| 1993 | J 398.2096 Anderson | Wilson | The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth |
| 1992 | E Ringgold | Ringgold | Tar Beach |
| 1991 | J 782.1 Price | Dillon | Aida |
| 1990 | J 811.54 Greenfield | Gilchrist | Nathaniel Talking |
| 1989 | E McKissack | Pinkney | Mirandy and Brother Wind |
| 1988 | J 398.2096 Steptoe | Steptoe | Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters |
| 1987 | do not have | Pinkney | Half a Moon and One Whole Star |
| 1986 | E Flournoy | Pinkney | The Patchwork Quilt |
| 1985 | No award given | | |
| 1984 | do not have | Cummings | My Mama Needs Me |
| 1983 | do not have | Magubane | Black Child |
| 1982 | J 398.20966 Diop | Steptoe | Mother Crocodile = Maman-Caiman |
| 1981 | J 398.20966 Bryan | Bryan | Beat the Story Drum,Pum-Pum |
| 1980 | E Yarbrough | Byard | Cornrows |
| 1979 | J 811.54 Feelings | Feelings | Something on my Mind |
| 1978 | E Greenfield | Byard | Africa Dream |
| 1977 | No award given | | |
| 1976 | No award given | | |
| 1975 | No award given | | |
| 1974 | J B Charles | Ford | Ray Charles |
