African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- The ABCs of Black history, words by Rio Cortez; pictures by Lauren Semmer
- The house on Childress Street, a memoir, Kenji Jasper
- African people in world history, by John Henrik Clarke
- Martin Luther King, the peaceful warrior, Ed Clayton ; illustrated by Donald Bermudez
- Surviving and thriving, 365 facts in Black economic history, Julianne Malveaux ; foreword by Cathy Hughes
- Dreams from my father, [a story of race and inheritance], Barack Obama
- Pan-African history, political figures from Africa and the diaspora since 1787, Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood
- The butler, a witness to history, Wil Haygood
- Black prophetic fire, Cornel West in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf
- Because Claudette, Tracey Baptiste ; illustrated by Tonya Engel
- The life of Josiah Henson, an inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, Josiah Henson
- The strange career of William Ellis, the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire, Karl Jacoby
- The Black list, HBO Documentary Films ; Freemind Ventures presents ; produced by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell, Michael Slap Sloane ; executive producers, Christopher McKee, Scott Richman, Tommy Walker, Payne Brown ; directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ; created by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell ; HBO executive producer, Sheila Nevins, Volume 1
- Little legends, exceptional men in black history, Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson
- Timelines from Black history, leaders, legends, legacies, [writer and consultant, Mireille Harper]
- King, pilgrimage to the mountaintop, Harvard Sitkoff
- Target zero, a life in writing, Eldridge Cleaver ; edited by Kathleen Cleaver ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; afterword by Cecil Brown
- Paul Robeson, by Martin Bauml Duberman
- W.E.B. DuBois--the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis
- Black American history, by Ronda Racha Penrice
- I am MLK Jr, produced by Derik Murray ; written by John Barbisan ; directed by John Barbisan, Michael Hamilton
- Martin Luther King, Jr., autora, Emma E. Haldy ; ilustrador, Jeff Bane
- The butler, a witness to history, Wil Haygood
- Outward dreams, Black inventors and their inventions, Jim Haskins
- Greyboy, finding blackness in a white world, Cole Brown ; foreword by Elaine Welteroth ; afterword by Michael Eric Dyson
- Vosstavaiï¸ a︡ iz rabstva, istoriiï¸ a︡ svobody, rasskazannaiï¸ a︡ byvshim rabom, Buker Vashington
- I've seen the promised land, the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
- The making of "Mammy Pleasant", a Black entrepreneur in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Lynn M. Hudson
- Martin Luther King Jr, a peaceful leader, by Sarah Albee ; pictures by Chin Ko
- King, a biography, David Levering Lewis
- School clothes, a collective memoir of Black student witness, Jarvis R. Givens
- Paul Robeson, a watched man, Jordan Goodman
- Illustrated Black history, honoring the iconic and the unseen, George McCalman with April Reynolds
- African-American odyssey, the Stewarts, 1853-1963, Albert S. Broussard
- The autobiography of Malcolm X, with the assistance of Alex Haley ; foreword by Attallah Shabazz ; introduction by M. S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by Ossie Davis
- Who is Michelle Obama?, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- Black history in its own words, [compiled and illustrated] by Ronald Wimberly
- W.E.B. Du Bois, a twentieth-century life, by Tonya Bolden
- Redemption, Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours, Joseph Rosenbloom
- The Black list, HBO Documentary Films ; Freemind Ventures presents ; executive producers, Tommy Walker, Scott Richman, Payne Brown, Chris McKee ; produced by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell, Michael Slap Sloane ; directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ; created by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell ; HBO executive producer, Sheila Nevins, Volume 2
- Huey, spirit of the panther, David Hilliard with Keith and Kent Zimmerman
- Malcolm X, make it plain, text by William Strickland ; oral histories selected and edited by Cheryll Y. Greene ; with the Malcolm X Documentary Production Team ; picture research by Michele McKenzie
- Unchained memories, readings from the slave narratives, foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by Spencer Crew and Cynthia Goodman
- The Negro leagues, the story of Black baseball, Jacob Margolies
- Fearless Mary, Mary Fields, stagecoach driver, Tami Charles ; illustrated by Claire Almon
- Black Judas, William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro, John David Smith
- Daniel Rudd, calling a church to justice, Gary B. Agee
- Maya Angelou, Miles Shapiro
- 13 against the odds
- Marian Anderson, Jane Sutcliffe
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