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- "Dear friend" : Thomas Garrett & William Still, collaborators on the underground railroad
- true100 African-Americans who shaped American history
- 100 years of Negro freedom
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave
- 13 against the odds
- true28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
- true3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar revolution
- 7-10 Split : My Journey as America's Whitest Black Kid
- A Black communist in the freedom struggle : the life of Harry Haywood
- A Black odyssey : John Lewis Waller and the promise of American life, 1878-1900
- trueA Negro league scrapbook
- trueA century and some change : my life before the president called my name
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi
- A choice of weapon
- A colored man round the world
- trueA drawing in the sand : a story of African American art
- trueA dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- trueA free Black girl before the Civil War : the diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854
- trueA gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A gift of heritage
- trueA golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A history of black achievement in America
- trueA horn for Louis
- trueA lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition
- A life on the edge : experiences in "Black and white" in North America : memoirs of Wilson Head
- A love supreme : real-life stories of Black love
- trueA man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- A man with a dream : Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A man's life : an autobiography
- trueA nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- trueA picture book of Frederick Douglass
- trueA picture book of George Washington Carver
- trueA picture book of Harriet Tubman
- trueA picture book of Jackie Robinson
- trueA picture book of Jesse Owens
- trueA picture book of Rosa Parks
- trueA picture book of Sojourner Truth
- trueA picture book of Thurgood Marshall
- trueA place called heartbreak : a story of Vietnam
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- trueA 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
- trueA splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin
- trueA spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- trueA stranger in my own house : the story of W.E.B. Du Bois
- trueA strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- trueA student's guide to Toni Morrison
- trueA taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A thousand Honey Creeks later : my life in music from Basie to Motown-- and beyond
- trueA voice named Aretha
- trueA way out of no way : the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young
- trueA weed is a flower : the life of George Washington Carver
- A. Philip Randolph : a biographical portrait
- A. Philip Randolph : messenger for the masses
- trueA. Philip Randolph and the African American labor movement
- A. Philip Randolph, pioneer of the civil rights movement
- Adam Clayton Powell and the politics of race
- trueAdrian Peterson
- Africa to America : from the Middle Passage through the 1930s
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American firsts in science & technology
- African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
- African American healers
- African American history for dummies
- trueAfrican American inventors
- African American lives
- trueAfrican American slave narratives : an anthology
- trueAfrican American women scientists and inventors
- African people in world history
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- African-American odyssey : the Stewarts, 1853-1963
- African-American social leaders and activists
- Afro-American contributors to American life
- Afro-American contributors to American life
- trueAin't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Alex Haley & Malcolm X's The autobiography of Malcolm X
- trueAli : an American champion
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- trueAll aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- All is never said : the narrative of Odette Harper Hines
- Allen Iverson : fear no one
- trueAlone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- Althea Gibson : young tennis player
- trueAlvin Ailey
- America's Black congressmen
- America's long struggle against slavery
- American tapestry : the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama
- trueAn apple for Harriet Tubman
- trueAn original man : the life and times of Elijah Muhammad
- trueAnd the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
- trueAndrew Young : a biography
- trueAngela Davis--an autobiography
- trueAnthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anyplace but here
- trueArchibald Grimke : portrait of a Black independent
- trueArt from her heart : folk artist Clementine Hunter
- trueArthur Ashe : young tennis champion
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- As wonderful as all that? : Henry Crowder's memoir of his affair with Nancy Cunard, 1928-1935
- trueAshley Bryan : words to my life's song
- Assata : an Autobiography
- Assata : an autobiography
- trueAunt Clara Brown : official pioneer
- Autobiography of Josiah Henson : an inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
- Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
- trueBaby Flo : Florence Mills lights up the stage
- trueBad boy : a memoir
- trueBalm in Gilead : journey of a healer
- trueBarack Obama
- trueBarack Obama : [the story]
- trueBarack Obama : president for a new era
- trueBarack Obama : the story
- trueBarbara Jordan : African American politician
- trueBarbara Jordan : congresswoman, lawyer, educator
- Barbara Jordan : voice of democracy
- trueBarry Bonds : baseball's superman
- trueBayard Rustin : behind the scenes of the civil rights movement
- trueBayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography
- trueBe free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- trueBearing 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
- Beating against the barriers : biographical essays in nineteenth-century Afro-American history
- trueBeautiful Jim Key : the lost history of a horse and a man who changed the world
- trueBecoming Beyonce : the untold story
- trueBefore John was a jazz giant : a song of John Coltrane
- trueBefore she was Harriet : [the story of Harriet Tubman]
- trueBelieve : the victorious story of Eric LeGrand
- trueBenjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- trueBessie Coleman : daring to fly
- trueBessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Betty Shabazz : sharing the vision of Malcolm X
- trueBigmama's
- trueBill Pickett, rodeo-ridin' cowboy
- Billie Holiday : the tragedy and triumph of Lady Day
- trueBirth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- Black American history
- Black Judas : William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
- trueBlack and white airmen : their true history
- trueBlack and white sat down together : the reminiscences of an NAACP founder
- trueBlack artists in photography, 1840-1940
- trueBlack cadet in a White bastion : Charles Young at West Point
- Black civil rights champions
- trueBlack diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
- trueBlack flight : breaking barriers to blacks in aviation
- trueBlack genius : inspirational portraits of America's black leaders
- trueBlack hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers
- Black heroes
- Black history & achievement in America : an overview of the Black struggle, its heroes and heroines
- Black history : more than just a month
- trueBlack inventors
- trueBlack leaders of the nineteenth century
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black leadership in American history
- Black light : the African American hero
- trueBlack pioneers : an untold story
- Black plots & black characters : a handbook for Afro-American literature
- Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
- trueBlack prophetic fire
- trueBlack radical : the education of an American revolutionary
- Black stars of colonial and revolutionary times : [African Americans who lived their dreams]
- Black stars of professional wrestling
- Black winners : a history of Spingarn medalists, 1915-1983
- trueBlind 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
- trueBlue as the lake : a personal geography
- Bobo Brazil
- trueBone Black : memories of girlhood
- Book of firsts : leaders of America
- Booker T. Washington
- trueBooker T. Washington : black leadership in the age of Jim Crow
- Booker T. Washington : getting into the schoolhouse
- Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901
- Booker T. Washington : the making of a black leader, 1856-1901
- Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- Born Black
- trueBorn bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- trueBorn in 1820 : Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony
- trueBorn in 1919 : Fred Korematsu, Jackie Robinson
- trueBorn in 1929 : Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueBreaking barriers : a memoir
- Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King
- Bring back summertime
- trueBrother in the bush : an African American's search for self in East Africa
- Brother minister : the assassination of El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
- trueBurn, baby! burn! : the autobiography of Magnificent Montague
- trueBy my brother's side
- trueCapital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital
- Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy : from American slave to Arctic hero
- Captain of the Planter : the story of Robert Smalls
- trueCarmelo Anthony
- trueCarter G. Woodson : a life in Black history
- trueCarter G. Woodson : the man who put "Black" in American history
- trueCathy Williams : from slave to Buffalo Soldier
- trueCee Lo Green : rapper, singer, & record producer
- Certain people : America's Black elite
- trueChamique Holdsclaw : my story
- trueChasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California
- trueChris Paul
- trueChuck Berry : the autobiography
- trueChurch boy
- Citizen King
- trueCivil rights : the struggle for Black equality
- Civil rights childhood
- trueClaiming kin : confronting the history of an African American family
- trueComing home : a story of Josh Gibson, baseball's greatest home run hitter
- trueCondoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography
- trueCondoleezza Rice : being the best
- Contemporary Black biography
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 151
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 83
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 84
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 85
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 86
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 87
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 88
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 89
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 90
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 91
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 92
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 93
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 94
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 95
- Contemporary Black biography : profiles from the international Black community, Volume 96
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community, Volume 106
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community, Volume 148
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community, Volume 149
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community, Volume 150
- Contemporary black biography : profiles from the international black community, Volume 152
- trueCoretta Scott
- trueCoretta Scott
- Coretta Scott King : a biography
- Coretta Scott King : civil rights activist
- trueCornel West
- trueCosby : his life and times
- trueCounsel for the situation : shaping the law to realize America's promise
- trueCount Basie : bandleader and composer
- Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators
- trueCrispus Attucks : a hero of the American Revolution
- trueCrossing the continent, 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South
- trueDaisy Bates : civil rights crusader
- trueDamn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success
- trueDancing spirit : an autobiography
- trueDancing to a black man's tune : a life of Scott Joplin
- trueDaniel Hale Williams : surgeon who opened hearts and minds
- Daughter of the revolution : the major nonfiction works of Pauline E. Hopkins
- trueDear Benjamin Banneker
- trueDeep blues : Bill Traylor, self-taught artist
- trueDefending the spirit : a Black life in America
- Denzel Washington
- Die free : a heroic family history
- Distinguished African American political and governmental leaders
- trueDizzy
- trueDonovan McNabb
- trueDrake : actor & hip-hop artist
- trueDream walker : a memoir : a journey of achievement and inspiration
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- trueDreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- trueDuke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
- trueDuke Ellington, giant of jazz
- trueDwelling place : a plantation epic
- Early African-American classics
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Elevating the race : Theophilus G. Steward, Black theology, and the making of an African American civil society, 1865-1924
- trueElla Baker : freedom bound
- trueElla Fitzgerald : first lady of song
- trueElla Fitzgerald : the tale of a vocal virtuosa
- Ely : an autobiography
- Empak "Black history" publication series
- trueErnest J. Gaines
- trueEugene Bullard : world's first Black fighter pilot
- Eulogies
- Every good-bye ain't gone : family portraits and personal escapades
- trueExquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times
- trueExtraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
- trueExtraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family
- Eyewitness : the Negro in American history
- trueFacing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- trueFair ball! : 14 great stars from baseball's Negro leagues
- trueFaith Ringgold
- Famous Black Americans
- Famous Blacks give secrets of success
- Famous Negro heroes of America
- trueFannie Lou Hamer : a voice for freedom
- trueFifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- trueFifty years in chains
- trueFight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
- trueFind where the wind goes : moments from my life
- trueFinding Grace : two sisters and the search for meaning beyond the color line
- trueFirst family
- trueFirst in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson
- trueFive brilliant scientists
- Five years to life
- trueFly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- trueFly, Bessie, fly
- For love of liberty : the story of America's black patriots : [a film]
- trueFor the love of the game : my story
- Frederick Douglass
- trueFrederick Douglass
- trueFrederick Douglass : a noble life
- trueFrederick Douglass for kids : his life and times with 21 activities
- Free Angela and all political prisoners
- Free man of color : the autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges
- trueFreedom Summer for young people : the violent season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
- trueFreedom cannot rest : Ella Baker and the civil rights movement
- trueFreedom facts and firsts : 400 years of the African American civil rights experience
- trueFreedom river
- Freedom train : the story of Harriet Tubman
- trueFreedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's Black daughter
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- trueFriends for freedom : the Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
- From fugitive slave to free man : the autobiographies of William Wells Brown
- trueFrom slavery to wealth : the life of Scott Bond
- trueGame day
- trueGame, set, match, champion Arthur Ashe
- Generations in black and white : photographs
- trueGeoffrey Holder : a life in theater, dance, and art
- trueGeography : art, race, exile
- trueGeorge Washington Carver
- trueGeorge Washington Carver
- trueGeorge Washington Carver
- trueGeorge Washington Carver : an innovative life
- trueGeorge Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- George Washington Williams, a biography
- Gerri Major's Black society
- Ghetto passport
- trueGoal dust : an autobiography
- trueGoing back home : an artist returns to the South
- trueGrandpa stops a war : a Paul Robeson story
- trueGreat African Americans in history
- trueGreat African Americans in jazz
- trueGreat African Americans in the arts
- Great American Negroes
- Great Black Americans : formerly titled Great American Negroes
- Great Black leaders, ancient and modern
- Great Negroes, past and present
- Great Negroes, past and present
- Great black writers
- Great negroes, past and present, Volume two
- trueGreat time coming : the life of Jackie Robinson, from baseball to Birmingham
- trueGrowing up King : an intimate memoir
- trueGrowing up black : from the slave days to the present - 25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods
- trueGuion Bluford : a space biography
- trueHand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
- trueHank Aaron : brave in every way
- trueHarriet Tubman
- trueHarriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- trueHarriet Tubman
- trueHarriet Tubman : Moses of the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman : antislavery activist
- trueHarriet Tubman : hero of the Underground Railroad
- trueHarriet Tubman : the life of an African-American abolitionist
- trueHarriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- trueHarriet Tubman, the Moses of her people
- Harriet Tubman: guide to freedom
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- trueHaving our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Heavy : An American Memoir
- Heavy : an American memoir
- trueHeavy : an American memoir
- trueHenry Aaron's dream
- Here I stand
- trueHeroes for civil rights
- Heroes in Black history : true stories from the lives of Christian heroes
- trueHeroes of black history : biographies of four great Americans
- Historical Afro-American biographies
- Historical Negro biographies
- trueHoward Thurman's great hope
- Howard Thurman, portrait of a practical dreamer
- trueHuey : spirit of the panther
- Huey P. Newton : the radical theorist
- trueHurricanes : a memoir
- Hurricanes : a memoir /
- trueI am Harriet Tubman
- trueI am Jackie Robinson
- trueI am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueI am Rosa Parks
- I am somebody! : a biography of Jesse Jackson
- trueI remember "121"
- trueI say me for a parable : the oral autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas bluesman
- I want somebody to know my name
- trueI was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives
- trueI've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad
- trueI've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
- trueI've seen the promised land : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueI, Matthew Henson
- Icons of Black America : breaking barriers and crossing boundaries
- trueIda B. Wells : let the truth be told
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : an exploratory study of an American Black woman, 1893-1930
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : crusader against lynching
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : powerhouse with a pen
- trueIf I only had a horn : young Louis Armstrong
- trueIf the creek don't rise : my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War : [a memoir]
- trueIn search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- trueIn the garden of our dreams : memoirs of a marriage
- trueIncognegro : a memoir of exile and apartheid
- trueInside Obama's brain
- Inspiring African Americans : Black history makers in the United States, 1750-1984