Elementary and Middle School | Young Adult and Adult Nonfiction | Fiction & Poetry

Below are books Teaching for Change recommends on Washington, D.C. Our offices are located in D.C., where we work locally with schools to better engage families and bring go-go into the classroom.

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Brick by Brick

By Charles R. Smith, Jr., Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)

Capital Days: Michael Shiner's Journal and the Growth of Our Nation's Capital

By Tonya Bolden

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir

By Eloise Greenfield, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator), Lessie Jones Little

Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery

By Winifred Conkling

1919, the Year of Racial Violence

By David F. Krugler

Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970

By James Borchert

An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C.

By Kate Masur

The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.

By Kip Lornell, Charles C. Stephenson Jr

Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its

By Kathleen M. Lesko, Samuel Harvey (Foreword by), Valerie Babb (With)

The Black History of the White House

By Clarence Lusane

Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C

By Jesse J. Holland

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

By Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

By Treva B. Lindsey

City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Washington, District of Columbia

Melder, Keith E.; Stuart, Melinda Young; Stuart, Melinda Young [Editor]

DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC

By Maurice Jackson (Editor), Blair A. Ruble (Editor)

Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad

By Mary Kay Ricks

First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

By Alison Stewart, Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by)

Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

By Natalie Hopkinson

Greater U Street

By Paul K. Williams

Growing Up in Washington, D.C.:: An Oral History

By Historical Society of Washington D. C., Edited By Jill Connors

The Guide to Black Washington, Revised Illustrated Edition

By Sandra Fitzpatrick, Maria R. Goodwin, Adele Logan Alexander (Introduction by)

In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital

By Paul Finkelman (Editor), Donald R. Kennon (Editor)

Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle

By Ida E. Jones, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis (Foreword by)

The Nats and the Grays: How Baseball in the Nation's Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever

By David E. Hubler, Joshua H. Drazen

On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

By Charles E. Cobb Jr

Snow-Storm in August: The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835

By Jefferson Morley

Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth

By the Latino Youth Leadership Council of LAYC

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

By Edward P. Jones

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

By Dinaw Mengestu

Cane

By Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd (Afterword by), Henry Louis Gates (Afterword by)

DC Noir (Akashic Noir)

Edited by George Pelecanos

Flying Home: Seven Stories of the Secret City

By David Nicholson

Hard Revolution

By Pelecanos

King Suckerman

By George Pelecanos

Long Distance Life

By Marita Golden

Lost in the City - 20th Anniversary Edition: Stories

By Edward P. Jones

The Maverick Room: Poems

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

River, Cross My Heart

By Breena Clarke

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