104 Books in the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical Category

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Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America Augustine the African The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer On Juneteenth A Promised Land (Deluxe Signed Edition) A Promised Land Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 2: 1853-1865 Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg A Look Back in Time: Memoir of a Military Kid in the Fifties Vol. 2 Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty Cockroaches The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) The Class of ’79: Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance The Borgias Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson My Bondage and My Freedom Twelve Years a Slave Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance The Butler: A Witness to History Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power The Fire Of Freedom: Abraham Galloway And The Slaves’ Civil War My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17Th President, 1865-1869 Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain Gather Together In My Name Lincoln On Race And Slavery Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Looking For Lincoln: The Making Of An American Icon American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty George S. Schuyler: Portrait Of A Black Conservative Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Essence: 50 Of The Most Inspiring African-Americans The Sage Of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler And The Harlem Renaissance Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman. Growing Up X Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production Of Hate The Herndons: An Atlanta Family Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X Miriam’s Song: A Memoir W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia Sally Hemings: An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial True Story Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love Jackie Robinson: A Biography Black Boy The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women’s Association, 1951-1976 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Edison: Inventing the Century James Baldwin: The Legacy George Washington Williams: A Biography Journey to Africa