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- 1,000 successful Blacks.
- 100 years of Negro freedom
- 12 years a slave : illustrated : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation in Avoyelles Parish, in the Mississippi Valley of Louisiana
- 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
- 13 against the odds
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A love supreme : real-life stories of Black love
- A man called White : the autobiography of Walter White
- A place and a name : the Dan Jenkins story | a fourth generation memoir about the love that founded the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina
- A salute to Black scientists and inventors
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- Ace of spades : a memoir
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American lives
- African American women : a biographical dictionary
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- African-American odyssey : the Stewarts, 1853-1963
- Afro-bets book of Black heroes from A to Z : an introduction to important Black achievers for young readers
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- America's Black congressmen
- An original man : the life and times of Elijah Muhammad
- Anyplace but here
- Archibald Grimké : portrait of a Black independent
- Back in the day : my life and times with Tupac Shakur
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Benjamin Banneker
- Bessie Coleman : first Black woman pilot
- Bill Cosby : actor and comedian
- Black chameleon : memory, womanhood, and myth
- Black heroes of the American Revolution
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black magic : what black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black pioneers of science and invention
- Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
- Black prophetic fire
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Booker T. Washington : "character is power"
- Booker T. Washington : Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow
- Born to rebel; : an autobiography,
- Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King
- Cathy Williams : from slave to female Buffalo soldier
- Commanders of the dining room : biographic sketches and portraits of successful head waiters
- Contemporary Black leaders
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King : civil rights activist
- Damn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success
- Dancing spirit : an autobiography
- Dictionary of American Negro biography
- Discovering Black America : from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century
- Distinguished African American political and governmental leaders
- Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Don't explain : a song of Billie Holiday
- Dream makers, dream breakers : the world of Justice Thurgood Marshall
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Duke Ellington
- Echoes from a well-spent life : a biography of John Alvin Bacoats and eight addresses
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Ella Baker : a leader behind the scenes
- Erma
- Extraordinary Black Americans : from colonial to contemporary times
- Fifty years in chains : life of an American slave : fascinating true story of a fugitive slave who lived in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, served under various masters, and was one year in the navy during the War of 1812
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : "truth is of no color"
- Frederick Douglass : for the great family of man
- Frederick Douglass : narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave ; My bondage and my freedom ; Life and times of Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies
- Freedom facts and firsts : 400 years of the African American civil rights experience
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- Gather together in my name
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- Gerri Major's Black society
- Get that nigger off the field : an oral history of black ballplayers from the Negro leagues to the present
- God, Harlem U.S.A. : the Father Divine story
- Great American Negroes
- Great negroes, past and present
- Growing up King : an intimate memoir
- Gullah statesman : Robert Smalls from slavery to Congress, 1839-1915
- Guts : legendary black rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett : a biography
- Gwendolyn Brooks : "poetry is life distilled"
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman and the freedom train
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heroes of black history : biographies of four great Americans
- Holt Collier : his life, his Roosevelt hunts, and the origin of the teddy bear
- Horace King : bridges to freedom
- Huey : spirit of the panther
- Hurricanes : a memoir
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives
- I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : woman of courage
- If the creek don't rise : my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War
- Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen
- In my place
- In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- In the garden of our dreams : memoirs of a marriage
- In the shadow of Liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives
- Inside a thug's heart : with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur
- Interesting people : Black American history makers
- International library of Afro-American life and history
- It is well with my soul : the extraordinary life of a 106-year-old woman
- James Baldwin
- Jesse : the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Jackson & the politics of race
- Jesse Jackson : civil rights activist
- John Mercer Langston and the fight for Black freedom, 1829-65
- John Washington's Civil War : a slave narrative
- Julius Erving
- Jump! : from the life of Michael Jordan
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kelly Miller, 1895-1939: : portrait of an African American intellectual
- King : a biography
- King : pilgrimage to the mountaintop
- King of ragtime : Scott Joplin and his era
- Kinship : a family's journey in Africa and America
- Knocking down barriers : my fight for Black America
- Kobe Bryant
- Langston Hughes : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Lena
- Let the trumpet sound : a life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Life and public services of Martin R. Delany
- Life out of context : which includes a proposal for the non-violent takeover of the House of Representatives
- Long time gone
- Looking for Farrakhan
- Louis Armstrong
- Love, liberation, and escaping slavery : William and Ellen Craft in cultural memory
- M.L.K. : journey of a King
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Make believe : a true story
- Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America
- Malcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : another side of the movement
- Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography
- Malcolm X: make it plain
- Manchild in the promised land
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. : "we shall overcome"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary McLeod Bethune; : a biography
- Mixed : my life in black and white
- Modern Negro contributors
- My American life : from rage to entitlement : a memoir
- My Confederate kinfolk : a twenty-first century freedwoman confronts her roots
- My soul has grown deep : classics of early African-American literature
- Narrative of my escape from slavery
- Negroes in our history
- Negroes of achievement, 1865-1915
- Nobody knows my name; : more notes of a native son
- Notable Black American scientists
- Notes from a young Black chef : adapted for young adults
- On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie
- On the side of my people : a religious life of Malcolm X
- Open the unusual door : true life stories of challenge, adventure, and success by black Americans
- Panther baby : a life of rebellion and reinvention
- Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin
- Passing for white : race, religion, and the Healy family, 1820-1920
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson : artist and citizen
- Paul Robeson rediscovered
- Paul Robeson, hero before his time
- Pauli Murray : the life of a pioneering feminist and civil rights activist
- Pictorial history of the American Negro, : a story of progress and development along social, political, economic, educational and spiritual lines
- Pierre Toussaint
- Prophet of rage : a life of Louis Farrakhan and his nation
- Proud : living my American dream
- Ralph David Abernathy
- Ray Charles and the birth of soul
- Recorder of the Black experience : a biography of Monroe Nathan Work
- Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
- Revolutionary suicide
- Rising above color,
- Road out of darkness : life of Bill Bligen
- Robert Griffin III
- Ron Brown : an uncommon life
- Roots
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Rosa Parks : in her own words
- Run the show like CEO Oprah Winfrey
- Sacred honor : Colin Powell, the inside account of his life and triumphs
- Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest Black girl in America
- Significant American Blacks
- Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke
- Six lessons for six sons : an extraordinary father, a simple formula for success
- Slave and citizen : the life of Frederick Douglass
- Slave narratives
- Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
- Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?
- South Carolina narratives, Volume XIV, [Slave narratives]/
- Southern homecoming traditions : recipes and remembrances
- Step by step : a memoir of hope, friendship, perseverance, and living the American dream
- Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
- Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup, free black man
- Strange fruit, Vol. 1 | Vol. 1, Uncelebrated narratives from Black history
- Strange fruit, Vol. 2, More uncelebrated narratives from Black history
- Tattoos on my soul : from the ghetto to the top of the world, a sizzling story of grit, glitz and personal growth
- The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country
- The Afro-American press and its editors,
- The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present
- The Black Russian
- The Black list
- The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800
- The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives
- The Ebony book of Black achievement.
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Negro in sports
- The assassination of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois; : a soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century
- The autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough : an American journey from slavery to scholarship
- The autobiography of a runaway slave.
- The beautiful struggle : adapted for young adults
- The butler : a witness to history
- The colored patriots of the American Revolution
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir
- The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation
- The first book of Negroes.
- The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
- The girl with a mind for math : the story of Raye Montague
- The golden road : notes on my gentrification
- The handicapped winners
- The house on Childress Street : a memoir
- The legend of Jesse Owens
- The legend of Kobe Bryant: : basketball's modern susperstar
- The life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The man from Essence : creating a magazine for Black women
- The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride
- The narrative of Sojourner Truth
- The other Toussaint : a modern biography of Pierre Toussaint, a post-revolutionary Black
- The riot within : my journey from rebellion to redemption
- The rising son; : or, The antecedents and advancement of the colored race.
- The river of no return : the autobiography of a Black militant and the life and death of SNCC
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson : an artist's journey, 1898-1939
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson : quest for freedon, 1939-1976
- The upward climb; : a course in Negro achievement, developed and recorded by Sara Estelle Haskin
- The young Paul Robeson : "on my journey now"
- There will be no miracles here
- They better call me Sugar : my journey from the hood to the hardwood
- They seek a city
- This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s
- This little light of mine : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
- To tell a free story : the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865
- To the mountaintop : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968
- Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington
- Twelve years a slave
- Twilight people : one man's journey to find his roots
- Uncensored : my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of Black and White America
- Unchained memories : readings from the slave narratives
- Unshakable faith : Booker T. Washington & George Washington Carver : a biography
- Up from history : the life of Booker T. Washington
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Usher
- Vernon can read! : a memoir
- Viewfinders : black women photographers
- W.E.B. Du Bois : champion of civil rights
- W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963
- W.E.B. DuBois
- W.E.B. DuBois, Black radical democrat
- Was Huck Black? : Mark Twain and African-American voices
- We are not broken
- We need to talk about Cosby
- What next : a memoir toward world peace
- Who was Harriet Tubman?
- Who's who in colored America; : a biographical dictionary of notable living persons of Negro descent in the United States
- William L. Bulkley, 1861-1933 : African American educator and reformer
- Without regard to race : the other Martin Robison Delany
- Woodholme : a black man's story of growing up alone
- Worthwhile negro accomplishments, 1866-1936 : 70 years of progress
- Wounds of passion : a writing life
- Wynton Marsalis
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