Apply to Receive Anti-Racist Children’s Books for your Classroom

Our Anti-Racist Children’s Book Program provides children around the country access to books and resources that support important conversations about race, racism, and resilience. These books affirm students from Black and Brown communities, while also empowering youth from all backgrounds to take action against racism.

Although over 50% of students in public school are students of color, curriculum remains Eurocentric and often lacks equitable and diverse representation of Black and Brown experiences. Moreover, white students are not given models for how to disrupt racial inequity and demonstrate solidarity with Black and Brown communities. There is considerable research showing that empowering representation, paired with content that specifically names and addresses race and racism, have positive academic and social outcomes for students of all races.

This program has been able to provide thousands of public elementary schools across the country with free anti-racist children’s books. If you are an educator, administrator, school counselor, or librarian at a Title I elementary school, you are eligible to apply to receive a set of these books for free.

The list of titles can be accessed here. Special thanks to critical Indigenous scholar Dr. Debbie Reese of American Indians in Children’s Literature for curating titles by Indigenous authors for the list.

Anti-Racist Children’s Book Application Form: CLOSED (for now)

Within 8 hours of launching this application, over 3,000 educators in all 50 states applied to receive anti-racist children’s books for their schools. We will be sending books to all of them. This shows the massive demand for anti-racist books and resources in education and the phenomenal commitment of educators across the country to engage with issues of race with their students. We will keep everyone updated on when we are able to open this form back up again and serve additional schools. Thanks to everyone for your incredible support of this work.