2019 International
AAHGS Book Award Winners
Children: Educational
Forced American Heroes: Coloring and Activity Book Volume 2
Janelle McDowell
(CreateSpace Independent Publisher)
Historical-Fiction: Historical Event/Era
Fate & Freedom: Book III – On Troubled Waters
K. I. Knight
(First Freedom Publishing LLC)
Non-Fiction: Biography
Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams the Power of the Ballot
by Dr. Ida E. Jones
(History Press)
Non-Fiction: Autobiography
Chance or Circumstance?: A Memoir and Journey
Through the Struggle for Civil Rights
by James R. Mapp
(iUniverse)
Non-Fiction: Current Events/
Social Change Event/Era
If I Survive: Fredrick Douglas and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor
(Edinburgh University Press)
Non-Fiction: Education/ Academic
In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift
Among New Negroes 1915-1935
by Shantella Y. Sherman
(Create Space Independent Publishers)
Non-Fiction: Genealogy
The Thompson Family: Untold Stories from the Past (1830-1960)
by Dr. Walter B. Curry, Jr.
(Amazon Digital Services)
Non-Fiction: Military
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN:
First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier
by Ric Murphy
(McFarland & Company Publishers)
Non-Fiction: Regional/History Genealogy
Finding Otho: The Search for our Enslaved Williams Ancestors
by Kathy Lynne Marshall
(Kanika Art and Books Publishing)
Non-Fiction: Religion/Philosophy
by Teraleen R. Campbell
(Pen Legacy Publisher)
Non-Fiction: Short Stories
Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery and the Legacy of Margaret Garner
by Delores M. Walters and Mary E. Frederickson
(University of Illinois Press)