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- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- A Malcolm X reader
- A drawing in the sand : the story of African American art
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A man's life : an autobiography
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman
- 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 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 strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A taste of power : a black woman's story
- A voice named Aretha
- A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- Althea Gibson
- Alvin Ailey
- American tapestry : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- Amos Fortune : free man
- Amos Fortune, free man
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson
- Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Because Claudette
- Before she was Harriet
- Betrayal by any other name
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Bicycle rider
- Bigmama's
- Bill Pickett, rodeo ridin' cowboy
- Bird & Diz
- Black American history
- Black and white airmen : their true history
- Black chameleon : memory, womanhood, and myth
- Black defiance; Black profiles in courage.
- 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 history : more than just a month
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black pioneers of science and invention
- Black prophetic fire
- Bone black : memories of girlhood
- Booker T. Washington : a photo-illustrated biography
- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
- Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- Born Black.
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Catching the fire : Philip Simmons, blacksmith
- Charlie Parker played be bop
- Charlotte Forten : a Black teacher in the Civil War
- Chasing space
- Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
- Childtimes : a three-generation memoir
- Civil rights childhood
- Come this far to freedom : a history of African Americans
- Condoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography
- Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators
- Cynthia Cooper
- Dear Benjamin Banneker
- Dictionary of American Negro biography
- Dizzy Gillespie and the birth of bebop
- 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
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- Dusk of dawn; : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
- Ella Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
- Evers.
- Fair ball! : 14 great stars from baseball's Negro leagues
- Faith Ringgold
- Female leaders
- Fifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Fly, Bessie, fly
- Follow your dreams
- Frederick Douglass : the last day of slavery
- Frederick Douglass and the fight for freedom
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners
- Free to dream : the making of a poet : Langston Hughes
- Freedom river
- From slave to Civil War hero : the life and times of Robert Smalls
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George Washington Carver: the man who overcame
- Great American Negroes
- Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
- Hank Aaron : brave in every way
- Happy birthday, Martin Luther King
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : Moses of the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman : a photo-illustrated biography
- Harriet Tubman : slavery and the underground railroad
- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hoops with Swoopes
- Hurry freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Rosa Parks
- I am Rosa Parks
- I have a dream : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fight for equal rights
- I shook up the world
- I've seen the promised land : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen
- In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace
- Interesting people : Black American history makers
- It is well with my soul : the extraordinary life of a 106-year-old woman
- Jackie Robinson : baseball pioneer
- Jackie Robinson : baseball's first Black major-leaguer
- Jackie Robinson : breaking baseball's color barrier
- Jazz stars
- Jerry Rice
- Jesse : the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Jackson & the politics of race
- Jesse Owens
- John Lewis
- Josephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
- Julius Erving
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Katherine Johnson
- Keeping heart : a memoir of family struggle, race, and medicine
- King : a critical biography
- King : pilgrimage to the mountaintop
- Kinship : a family's journey in Africa and America
- Langston's train ride
- Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of the civil rights movement
- LeBron James
- Leadership
- Leon's story
- Leontyne Price : voice of a century
- Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Lewis Howard Latimer
- Life doesn't frighten me : poem
- Lift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker
- Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite
- MLK : the assassination tapes
- Madam C.J. Walker : the inspiring life story of the hair care entrepreneur
- Magic Johnson : hero on and off court
- Make it messy : my perfectly imperfect life
- Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America
- Malcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : by any means necessary
- Malcolm X, make it plain
- Malcolm X.
- Malcolm X. : a life of reinvention
- Manchild in the promised land
- Manchild in the promised land
- March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King : the peaceful warrior
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : a man with a dream
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Marvelous Mabel : figure skating superstar
- Meet the Webbers of Philadelphia
- Michael Jordan : legendary guard
- Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman
- Muhammad Ali : conscientious objector
- Muhammad Ali, the man who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
- Mumbet : the life and times of Elizabeth Freeman : the true story of a slave who won her freedom
- My Uncle Martin's big heart
- My brother Martin : a sister remembers growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- My dream of Martin Luther King
- My family shall be free! : the life of Peter Still
- Mysterious Thelonious
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth
- Never forget our people were always free : a parable of American healing
- Nina : a story of Nina Simone
- Notes from a young Black chef
- Nothing but trouble : the story of Althea Gibson
- On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie
- On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth
- Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth
- Oprah Winfrey
- Osceola : memories of a sharecropper's daughter
- Our children can soar : a celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the pioneers of change
- Outward dreams : Black inventors and their inventions
- Parallel time : growing up in black and white
- Passing for white : race, religion, and the Healy family, 1820-1920
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson : a life of activism and art
- Paul Robeson : no one can silence me
- Pauli Murray : the life of a pioneering feminist and civil rights activist
- Performing artists
- Pierre Toussaint : apostle of old New York
- Portraits of African-American heroes
- Promises to keep : how Jackie Robinson changed America
- Proud : living my American dream
- Rabbit : the autobiography of Ms. Pat
- Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Reggie Miller, from downtown
- Revolutionary suicide
- Robeson : an American ballad
- Romare Bearden : collage of memories
- Roots
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Rosa Parks : bus ride to freedom
- Rosa Parks : my story
- Run, Book one
- Satchel Paige
- Satchel Paige
- Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest black girl in America
- Shapers of America
- Shaquille O'Neal : big man, big dreams
- Shaquille O'Neal : gentle giant
- She was the first! : the trailblazing life of Shirley Chisholm
- Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
- Shoutin' in the fire : an American epistle
- Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke
- Six lessons for six sons : an extraordinary father, a simple formula for success
- Skit-scat raggedy cat : Ella Fitzgerald
- Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
- Slavery time when I was chillun
- Sojourner Truth
- Sojourner Truth : a photo-illustrated biography
- Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride
- Sojourner Truth, : a self-made woman
- Solomon Northup : the complete story of the author of Twelve years a slave
- Standing fast : the autobiography of Roy Wilkins
- Stitching stars : the story quilts of Harriet Powers
- Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
- Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup, free black man
- Story painter : the life of Jacob Lawrence
- Sweet summer : growing up with & without my dad
- Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Bessie Coleman
- Target zero : a life in writing
- Teammates
- The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country
- The Black Russian
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- The assassination of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography 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 beautiful struggle : a memoir
- The beautiful struggle : a memoir
- The complete idiot's guide to African American history
- The court-martial of Jackie Robinson : the baseball legend's battle for civil rights during World War II
- 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 faith of Elijah Cummings : the north star of equal justice
- The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
- The great stain : witnessing American slavery
- The highest tribute : Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy
- The life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
- The measure of a man
- The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad
- The mother of Black Hollywood : a memoir
- The nine muses
- The real McCoy : the life of an African-American inventor
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The secret garden of George Washington Carver
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The story of Ruby Bridges
- The trials of Muhammad Ali
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson : an artist's journey, 1898-1939
- The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
- The whole world in his hands : a pictorial biography of Paul Robeson
- The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist
- There will be no miracles here
- Things that make white people uncomfortable : adapted for young adults
- Threads of peace : how Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world
- Through my eyes
- Thurgood Marshall
- To move the world : Louis G. Gregory and the advancement of racial unity in America
- To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
- Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper
- Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853
- Twice as good : Condoleezza Rice and her path to power
- Uncelebrated narratives from Black history
- Uncle Tom or new Negro? : African Americans reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from slavery one hundred years later
- Uncle Tom's journey from Maryland to Canada : the life of Josiah Henson
- Up from history : the life of Booker T. Washington
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery; : an autobiography,
- Vernon can read! : a memoir
- Walking the road to freedom : a story about Sojourner Truth
- We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy
- We need to talk about Cosby
- We shall overcome : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black freedom struggle
- What are you figuring now? : a story about Benjamin Banneker
- What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- When Marian sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson : the voice of a century
- White bucks and black-eyed peas : coming of age Black in white America
- Who Was Coretta Scott King?
- Who is Barack Obama?
- Who is Michelle Obama?
- Who is Muhammad Ali?
- Who was Harriet Tubman?
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
- William Still and his freedom stories : the father of the Underground Railroad
- Willie Mays
- Wilma Rudolph
- Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman
- Winning in reverse : defying the odds and achieving dreams : the Bill Lester story
- With books and bricks : how Booker T. Washington built a school
- Within the context of no context
- Women of hope : African Americans who made a difference
- Wounds of passion : a writing life
- Young, Black, and determined : a biography of Lorraine Hansberry
- Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present
- Your legacy : a bold reclaiming of our enslaved history
- Zora Hurston and the chinaberry tree
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