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- 100 years of Negro freedom
- 100 years of Negro freedom
- 12 Years a Slave
- 12 years a slave
- 13 against the odds
- 13 against the odds
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- 50 of the most inspiring African-Americans
- 50 years of assimilation : from the Midwest to the wild West and all the blackness & whiteness in-between
- 7 African-American scientists
- 9 African-American inventors
- A Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica : the narrative of Nancy Prince
- A biographical history of Blacks in America since 1528
- A colored woman in a white world
- A colored woman in a white world
- A drawing in the sand : a story of African American art
- 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 history of African-American leadership
- A lie of reinvention : correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
- A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition
- A lonely rage : the autobiography of Bobby Seale
- A man called White ; : the autobiography of Walter White
- A man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man from Davilla
- A man's life : an autobiography
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Jackie Robinson
- A picture book of Jesse Owens
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A picture book of Rosa Parks
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth
- A picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- A piece of the power ; : four Black mayors
- A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
- A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A scholar's conscience : selected writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A son of Africa : the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano
- A special bravery
- A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A stranger in my own house : the story of W.E.B. Du Bois
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A time for martyrs : the life of Malcolm X
- A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
- A way out of no way : the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young
- A weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- A weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- A. Philip Randolph : the religious journey of an African American labor Leader
- A. Philip Randolph and the African American labor movement
- A. Philip Randolph, pioneer of the civil rights movement
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
- Accomplished : African-American women in Victorian America
- Ace of spades : a memoir
- Actor in exile ; : the life of Ira Aldridge
- Adam Clayton Powell: portrait of a marching Black
- Addy : an American girl
- Adjust your color : the truth of Petey Greene
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- Africa to America : from the Middle Passage through the 1930s
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American biography
- African American entrepreneurs
- African American firsts in science and technology
- African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
- African American healers
- African American history for dummies
- African American inventors
- African American lives
- African American lives 2
- African American voices
- African American women scientists and inventors
- African Americans in California
- African Americans in the Spanish Civil War : "this ain't Ethiopia, but it'll do"
- African Americans today
- African people in world history
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of Blacks in America
- African-American inventors
- African-American odyssey : the Stewarts, 1853-1963
- African-American scientists : Robert Jones, Reatha Clark King, Walter Massey, Franklyn G. Prendergast, Larry Shannon
- African-Americans in radio, film, and TV entertainment
- Afro-Americans '76 : Black Americans in the founding of our nation
- Afro-bets book of black heroes from A to Z : an introduction to important black achievers for young readers
- Against all opposition : Black explorers in America
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Alain Locke and philosophy : a quest for cultural pluralism
- Alex Haley : author of Roots
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- All You Can Be : Learning & Growing Through Sports
- All around town : the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts
- All is never said : the narrative of Odette Harper Hines
- All you can be
- Alvin Ailey
- Alvin Ailey : celebrating African-American culture in dance
- America's Black congressmen
- American Tapestry : the Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
- American tapestry : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- American tapestry : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- Amos Fortune, free man
- Amos Fortune, free man
- Amos Fortune, free man
- Amos Fortune, free man
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An original man : the life and times of Elijah Muhammad
- And not afraid to dare : the stories of ten African-American women
- And the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
- Andrew Young, champion of the poor
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anyplace but here
- Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson
- Arriving in America : destination the South
- Arthur Ashe : against the wind
- Arthur Mitchell
- Artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- Assata : an autobiography
- At the plate with-- Mo Vaughn
- Augusta Savage : sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Aunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
- Away from my mother's watchful eye : a coming of age story
- Baby Flo : Florence Mills lights up the stage
- Baby Flo : Florence Mills lights up the stage
- Bad boy
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Ballerina dreams : from orphan to ballerina
- Ballerina dreams : from orphan to dancer
- Barack Obama
- Barack Obama : Presidente de Estados Unidos
- Barack Obama : [a photographic story of a life]
- Barack Obama : an American story
- Barack Obama : president of the United States
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbara Jordan : congresswoman, lawyer, educator
- Barney Ford, Black baron
- Barry Bonds
- Barry Bonds : baseball's superman
- Barry Bonds : baseball's superman
- Battles And Victories Of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army
- Bayard Rustin : American dreamer
- Bayard Rustin : behind the scenes of the civil rights movement
- Bayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- 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
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century
- Beating against the barriers : biographical essays in nineteenth-century Afro-American history
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Before she was Harriet
- Before she was Harriet
- Believe : the victorious story of Eric LeGrand
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Benjamin Banneker : mathematician and stargazer
- Benjamin Banneker : pioneering scientist
- Benjamin Banneker, astronomer and scientist
- Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America
- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly
- Bessie Coleman : first Black woman pilot
- Between the devil and the sea ; : the life of James Forten
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : shine your light
- Beyond defeat
- Bicycle rider
- Big star fallin' mama : five women in black music
- Big star fallin' mama ; : five women in Black music
- Bigmama's
- Bill Cosby, making America laugh and learn
- Bill Pickett, rodeo-ridin' cowboy
- Billie Holiday : the tragedy and triumph of Lady Day
- Biology
- Biology
- Black Jack : the ballad of Jack Johnson
- Black Judas : William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro
- Black Judas : William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro
- Black and White sat down together : the reminiscences of an NAACP founder
- Black and white airmen : their true history
- Black artists in photography, 1840-1940
- Black baby, white hands : a view from the crib
- Black congressional Reconstruction orators and their orations, 1869-1879
- Black cop
- Black defiance; Black profiles in courage
- Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
- Black explorers
- Black fighting men : a proud history
- Black fire : the making of an American revolutionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West
- Black hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers
- Black heroes
- Black heroes of the American Revolution
- Black history : more than just a month
- Black history : more than just a month
- Black history in its own words
- Black in China
- Black leaders of the nineteenth century
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black light : the African American hero
- Black pilgrimage
- Black pioneers : an untold story
- Black pioneers of science and invention
- Black pioneers of science and invention
- Black plots & black characters : a handbook for Afro-American literature
- Black power and the Garvey movement
- Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
- Black prophetic fire
- Black radical : the education of an American revolutionary
- Black stars in orbit : NASA's African American astronauts
- Black stars of Civil War times
- Black stars of professional wrestling
- Black stars of the civil rights movement
- Black women of valor
- Blacktown, U.S.A.
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- Blind Boone : piano prodigy
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blue as the lake : a personal geography
- Bo Diddley : rock & roll all-star
- Bone Black : memories of girlhood
- Booker T's child : the life and times of Portia Marshall Washington Pittman
- Booker T's child and Portia
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington : "character is power"
- Booker T. Washington : Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow
- Booker T. Washington : educator and leader
- Booker T. Washington : getting into the schoolhouse
- Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- Booker T. Washington, educator of hand, head, and heart
- Born Black
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Breaking barriers : a memoir
- Breaking through the wall : a marathoner's story
- Breakthrough to the big league ; : the story of Jackie Robinson
- Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King
- Broken shackles : Old Man Henson from slavery to freedom
- Bursting bonds : enlarged edition [of] The heir of slaves : the autobiography of a "new Negro"
- By my brother's side
- Cam Newton : football star
- Can you imagine?
- Capital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital
- Carmelo Anthony
- Carter G. Woodson : father of African-American history
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Carvers' George : a biography of George Washington Carver
- Catching the fire : Philip Simmons, blacksmith
- Cathy Williams : from slave to Buffalo Soldier
- Cee Lo Green : rapper, singer, & record producer
- Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day : dreaming of change
- Certain people : America's Black elite
- Certain people : America's black elite
- Chad Ochocinco
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Changing of the guard ; : the new breed of Black politicians
- Charles Drew
- Charles Drew : life-saving scientist
- Charles Richard Drew, M.D.
- Chemistry
- Childtimes : a three-generation memoir
- Civil rights childhood
- Civil rights pioneer : a story about Mary Church Terrell
- Claiming kin : confronting the history of an African American family
- Colin Powell
- Colonel of the black regiment : the life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Come back Africa : the films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume II
- Coming of age : behind the magnolia curtain
- Condi : the Life Of A Steel Magnolia
- Condoleezza Rice
- Condoleezza Rice : a memoir of my extraordinary, ordinary family and me
- Condoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography
- Condoleezza Rice : being the best
- Conjure times : Black magicians in America
- Contemporary Black leaders
- Convicted in the womb : one man's journey from prisoner to peacemaker
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Cornel West on Black prophetic fire
- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators
- Crusader without violence : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader
- Damn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success
- Dancing spirit : an autobiography
- Daniel Alexander Payne : the venerable preceptor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Daniel Rudd : calling a church to justice
- Dare to dream : Coretta Scott King and the civil rights movement
- Daughters : on family and fatherhood
- Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
- DeSean Jackson
- Dear Benjamin Banneker
- Dear Benjamin Banneker
- Deep blues : Bill Traylor, self-taught artist
- Defending the spirit : a Black life in America
- Delivering justice : W.W. Law and the fight for civil rights
- Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Denzel Washington
- Denzel Washington : Academy award-winning actor
- Die nigger die! : a political autobiography
- Dirty little secrets about Black history, its heroes, and other troublemakers
- Discovering Black America : from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century
- Discovering Black America : from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century
- Distinguished African American political and governmental leaders
- Doce años de esclavitud
- Don't explain : a song of Billie Holiday
- Don't hold me back : my life and art
- Don't ride the bus on Monday : the Rosa Parks story
- Donna Summer : an unauthorized biography
- Dr. Charles Drew : blood bank innovator
- Dr. Charles Drew : medical pioneer
- Dr. George Washington Carver, ein Lebensbild
- Dr. George Washington Carver, scientist
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. :, [196-?]
- Draw what you see : the life and art of Benny Andrews
- Draw what you see : the life and art of Benny Andrews
- Dream big, little one
- Dreams from my father
- Dreams from my father : [a story of race and inheritance]
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dred and Harriet Scott : a family's struggle for freedom
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington : "I live with music"
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Dusk of dawn : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
- Dusk of dawn : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
- Dusk of dawn ; : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
- DÃa de Martin Luther King Jr.
- Edward Bouchet : the first African-American doctorate
- Eight Black American inventors
- Ella Baker : freedom bound
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Empak "Black history" publication series
- Engineering
- Erma
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
- Eulogies
- Every good-bye ain't gone : family portraits and personal escapades
- Extraordinary African-Americans
- Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times
- Extraordinary people of the civil rights movement
- Eyewitness; the Negro in American history
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Fair ball! : 14 great stars from baseball's Negro leagues
- Faith Ringgold
- Famous American Negro poets
- Famous American Negroes
- Famous Black entertainers of today
- Famous Negro entertainers of stage, screen, and TV
- Famous Negro heroes of America
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Fannie Lou Hamer : from sharecropping to politics
- Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, stagecoach driver
- Fifty cents and a dream : young Book T. Washington
- Fifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave
- Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
- Fighting Shirley Chisholm
- Find where the wind goes : moments from my life
- First in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson
- Five bold freedom fighters
- Five brilliant scientists
- Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Fly, Bessie, fly
- For the dignity of humanity : 2nd annual commemoration of Black history, February 1979
- Forever black but always proud
- Forten, the sailmaker; pioneer champion of Negro rights
- Forty years a guinea pig
- Forward march to freedom; a biography of A. Philip Randolph
- Four took freedom ; : the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce
- Frank Robinson
- Freddy Adu : young soccer super star
- Frederick Douglass : "truth is of no color"
- Frederick Douglass : a noble life
- Frederick Douglass : for the great family of man
- Frederick Douglass : leader against slavery
- Frederick Douglass : the last day of slavery
- Frederick Douglass : voice for justice, voice for freedom
- Frederick Douglass : when the lion wrote history
- Frederick Douglass fights for freedom
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist editor
- Frederick Douglass: slave, fighter, freeman
- Free Angela and all political prisoners
- Free to dream : the making of a poet : Langston Hughes
- Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom facts and firsts : 400 years of the African American civil rights experience
- Freedom heroines
- Freedom heroines
- Freedom river
- Freedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's Black daughter
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- From slave to Civil War hero : the life and times of Robert Smalls
- Gabby Douglas
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Game, set, match : champion Arthur Ashe
- Garrett Morgan : inventor of the traffic light and gas mask
- Garvey & Garveyism
- Garvey and Garveyism
- Generations in Black and white : photographs
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver : an American biography
- George Washington Carver : an innovative life
- George Washington Carver : from slave to scientist
- George Washington Carver : planting ideas
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George Washington Carver : sembrar ideas
- George Washington Carver : the peanut scientist
- George Washington Carver: the man who overcame
- George Washington Williams, a biography
- Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
- Giants for justice : Bethune, Randolph, and King
- Giving a voice to the ancestors
- Go and tell Pharaoh : the autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton
- Go free or die : a story about Harriet Tubman
- Goal dust : an autobiography
- Going back home : an artist returns to the South
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Grace in the wilderness : a family's story of love, loss and redemption...
- Grandma Lois remembers : an Africa