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174 Books in the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Category

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Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback) Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America Magically Black and Other Essays The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery A Burst of Light: and Other Essays Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration Just Keep Living: Conversations with Granny Foundational Black American Race Baiter: My Journey Into Understanding Systematic Racism Segregated Skies: David Harris’s Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers Spike Keep On Moving (paperback): My Journey in the Fourth Quarter Keep On Moving: My Journey in the Fourth Quarter Run: Book One Watergate’s Forgotten Hero A Journey Through Grace (paperback) A Journey Through Grace The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition Mining Diamonds The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens Black Power, Black Lawyer (paperback): My Audacious Quest for Justice The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells Walking in Footsteps of Promise Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest Three Years in Mississippi Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds Sleep Walking Out of Afghanistan: Walking It All Back Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change Frederick Douglass: A Biography The Future of the American Negro Encyclopedia of Black Comics Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper My Life In The South Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) When Minorities Lead in America: A Black Theologian’s Political Journey Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna The Magic Hour Say’s Law: An Historical Analysis (Princeton Legacy Library) something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs History of the Negro Church Breaking Thru The Bars: Identical Twins, Identical Crime, Identical Time The Legacy of Eric Williams Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home Jennifer’s Journal: The Life Of A Suburban Girl Garvey and Garveyism Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey From Thug to Scholar: An Odyssey to Unmask My True Potential The Collected Poems of Ai Whitney: Tribute to an Icon Nicki Minaj: The Woman Who Stole The World Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher The Photographs of Jack Delano: The Library of Congress With the Kisses of His Mouth Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street Senior Stories - Straight From the Heart Into Africa: The Return Legacy to Legend: Winners Make It Happen Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs To Whom It May Concern From Incarceration 2 Incorporation John Henrik Clarke And The Power Of Africana History: Africalogical Quest For Decolonization And Sovereignty Motherless Child - Stories from a Life The Manley Memoirs Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Don’t Run Away Make A Way Queen Cooked Remembering Margo: A Triumphant Life, A Tragic Death, And Life’s Greatest Deception Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition) Inward Hunger: The Education Of A Prime Minister Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five Defying the Odds - Triumphant Black Women of Newark “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Uncrowned Queens, Volume 3: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York Firefighter You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent Vernon Can Read! A Memoir Uncrowned Queens, Volume 1: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback)) Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America A Season On The Reservation: My Soujourn With The White Mountain Apaches Meet It, Greet It and Defeat It My Life in Search of Africa My Brother One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings Walter Dean Myers (Contemporary African Americans) World’s Great Men of Color Brothers and Keepers Conversations with Ernest Gaines (Literary Conversations) The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America The Poet’s World Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X Time Trap Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. 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Harper, 1825-1911 The Big Sea: An Autobiography Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice Black Is the Color of My TV Tube Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition No Identity Crisis: A Father and Son’s Own Story of Working Together Jim Brown Out of Bounds Pauli Murray: Autobiography Black Activist Feminist Lawyer Kaffir Boy in America The Spook Who Sat by the Door The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday The Hornes You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne American Hunger Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson This Life Movin’ Up, Pop Gordy Tells His Story Du Bois: Pictoral Biography Andrew Young, Man With a Mission Women Pioneers of Science Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America Barbara Jordan Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies) Jake Gaither, America’s most famous Black coach Coretta Scott King (Americans All) Up from Nigger The Story of Stevie Wonder Paul Robeson, All-American All is well Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America) My Life of Absurdity The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams The Freedom Ship Of Robert Smalls Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World, Beyond All Pity (Modern Society) We a BaddDDD People. Black Inventors of America Martin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace Manchild in the Promised Land Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Mentor Series) Facing Mount Kenya Booker T. Washington Interpreters (Opera biographies) Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics