African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- The house on Childress Street, a memoir, Kenji Jasper
- Bearing the cross, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow
- Rising above color,, edited by Philip Henry Lotz
- A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
- There will be no miracles here, Casey Gerald
- Becoming Kareem, growing up on and off the court, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
- 12 years a slave, narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana, Solomon Northup
- Kelly Miller, 1895-1939:, portrait of an African American intellectual, by Sylvie Coulibaly
- Tattoos on my soul, from the ghetto to the top of the world, a sizzling story of grit, glitz and personal growth, Burrel Lee Wilks
- God, Harlem U.S.A., the Father Divine story, Jill Watts
- In my place, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- Paul Robeson, by Martin Bauml Duberman
- The slaves' war, the Civil War in the words of former slaves, Andrew Ward
- Tuskegee University Cemetery stories, the lives that built a great American educational institution, Lanice P. Middleton ; foreword by Gregory S. Gray
- Ralph David Abernathy, by Catherine Reef
- In search of our roots, how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- They better call me Sugar, my journey from the hood to the hardwood, by Sugar Rodgers
- King, pilgrimage to the mountaintop, Harvard Sitkoff
- Negroes in our history, Eugene Winslow, editor-illustrator
- Black magic, what black leaders learned from trauma and triumph, Chad Sanders
- The first book of Negroes., Pictures by Ursula Koering
- Night flyer, Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people, Tiya Miles
- Dictionary of American Negro biography, edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston
- The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives, edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Slave narratives
- Recorder of the Black experience, a biography of Monroe Nathan Work, Linda O. McMurry
- Frederick Douglass, narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave ; My bondage and my freedom ; Life and times of Frederick Douglass
- Hurricanes, a memoir, Rick Ross with Neil Martinez-Belkin
- Echoes from a well-spent life, a biography of John Alvin Bacoats and eight addresses, by Inez Bacoats ; first foreword, Maxie S. Gordon, Sr., second foreword, T. J. Hanberry
- Growing up King, an intimate memoir, Dexter Scott King with Ralph Wiley
- Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Rout
- Step by step, a memoir of hope, friendship, perseverance, and living the American dream, Bertie Bowman
- Malcolm X, another side of the movement, by Mark Davies ; with an introduction by Andrew Young
- Holt Collier, his life, his Roosevelt hunts, and the origin of the teddy bear, Minor Ferris Buchanan
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Marshall Frady
- Having our say, the Delany sisters' first 100 years, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth
- The man from Essence, creating a magazine for Black women, Edward Lewis ; with Audrey Edwards ; foreword by Camille O. Cosby
- Gather together in my name
- Slave and citizen, the life of Frederick Douglass, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; edited by Oscar Handlin
- King of ragtime, Scott Joplin and his era, Edward A. Berlin
- Up from history, the life of Booker T. Washington, Robert J. Norrell
- The Black Russian, Vladimir Alexandrov
- On my own at 107, reflections on life without Bessie, Sarah L. Delany with Amy Hill Hearth ; illustrations by Brian M. Kotzky
- The girl from the tar paper school, Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement, Teri Kanefield
- Work with what you got, Zion Clark and James S. Hirsch
- Wounds of passion, a writing life, Bell Hooks
- Anyplace but here, Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy
- Black leaders of the twentieth century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier
- The autobiography of a runaway slave., Edited by Miguel Barnet. Translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Innes
- Damn near white, an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success, Carolyn Marie Wilkins
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