African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- African-American social leaders and activists, Jack Rummel
- To the promised land, Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice, Michael K. Honey
- Ralph Ellison, invisible man, celebrated writer, adaptation and re-editing produced and edited by Brian Stewart
- Two tickets to freedom, the true story of Ellen and William Craft, fugitive slaves, Florence B. Freedman ; illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
- First martyr of liberty, Crispus Attucks in American memory, Mitch Kachun
- Gwendolyn Brooks, "poetry is life distilled", Christine M. Hill
- Black pioneers, an untold story, William Loren Katz
- Bicycle rider, Mary Scioscia ; pictures by Ed Young
- Heavy, an American memoir, Kiese Laymon
- Martin Luther King, Jr., on leadership, inspiration & wisdom for challenging times, Donald T. Phillips
- Freedom train, the story of Harriet Tubman, by Dorothy Sterling
- Harriet Tubman in her own words, by Julia McDonnell
- Josephine Baker, Alan Schroeder ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- W.E.B. Du Bois, American prophet, Edward J. Blum
- Generations in Black and white, photographs, by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ; edited by Rudolph P. Byrd
- Harriet Tubman, a photo-illustrated biography, by Margo McLoone
- Garvey & Garveyism, Amy Jacques Garvey ; introduction by John Henrik Clark ; with a perspective by Julius Garvey
- Always, Jackie, the true story of a boy and his baseball hero, Ron Rabinovitz & J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by John Thompson
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and the antilynching crusade, by Suzanne Freedman
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson
- Redemption, Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours, Joseph Rosenbloom
- The African-American century, how Black Americans have shaped our country, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
- Martin Luther King Jr., "we shall overcome", Anne Schraff
- Someday is now, Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-ins, written by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich ; illustrated by Jade Johnson
- Sweet summer, growing up with & without my dad, Bebe Moore Campbell
- African American firsts in science & technology, Raymond B. Webster ; guest foreword by Wesley L. Harris
- A history of black achievement in America, produced by Centre Communications, Inc. for Ambrose Video Publishing
- School clothes, a collective memoir of Black student witness, Jarvis R. Givens
- A. Philip Randolph, for jobs & freedom, a film from California Newsreel ; WETA-TV ; executive producer, Tamara E. Robinson ; produced and directed by Dante J. James ; written by Juan Williams, Dante J. James
- Talkin' about Bessie, the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis
- Oprah Winfrey, businesswoman and actress, Kathy Furgang
- Lion in the lobby, Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s struggle for the passage of civil rights laws, Denton L. Watson
- Go and tell Pharaoh, the autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton, by Al Sharpton and Anthony Walton
- Shoes for everyone, a story about Jan Matzeliger, by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell
- George Washington Carver, by Vivian Bernstein
- Mary McLeod Bethune, champion for education, adaptation and re-editing produced and edited by Brian Stewart
- Little leaders, bold women in black history, Vashti Harrison
- Pearl's secret, a Black man's search for his white family, Neil Henry
- Autobiography of a people, three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it, [edited by] Herb Boyd
- Catching the fire, Philip Simmons, blacksmith, Mary E. Lyons ; with photographs by Mannie Garcia
- Louis Farrakhan, Therese De Angelis
- W.E.B. DuBois, biography of a race, 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis
- African American entrepreneurs, Jim Haskins
- Africa and the Afro-American experience, eight essays, edited by Lorraine A. Williams
- Barack Obama, Presidente de Estados Unidos, Roberta Edwards ; ilustraciones de Ken Call
- Great negroes, past and present, Jawanza Kunjufu, Erica Myles, Nichelle Wilson, Volume two
- Toni Morrison, Douglas Century
- My bondage and my freedom, Frederick Douglass ; with a new introduction by Philip S. Foner
- Shaking the tree, a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women, edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
- Paul Robeson, actor, singer, political activist, David K. Wright ; series consultant: Russell L. Adams
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