177 Collage of Books in the History / African American Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter by Therese Taylor-Stinson
Click for more detail about Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman
Click for more detail about Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle by Shannen Dee Williams
Click for more detail about Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - With a New Introduction by the Author by Randall Kennedy
Click for more detail about Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley
Click for more detail about Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI by Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones
Click for more detail about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Click for more detail about Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
Click for more detail about May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America by Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston
Click for more detail about Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
Click for more detail about Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
Click for more detail about Black Rage In New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina by Leonard N. Moore
Click for more detail about The Marshall Legacy in Black and White by Kathy Lynne Marshall
Click for more detail about Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem by Kevin McGruder
Click for more detail about Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC by Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green
Click for more detail about How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Click for more detail about America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Click for more detail about My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers
Click for more detail about The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish
Click for more detail about The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
Click for more detail about On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Click for more detail about I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts
Click for more detail about Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players by Cam Perron with Nick Chiles
Click for more detail about The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill
Click for more detail about Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Click for more detail about No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Click for more detail about The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
Click for more detail about Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History and Culture by Burnett Kwadwo Gallman
Click for more detail about Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed) by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family by Malaika Adero
Click for more detail about Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Click for more detail about Dick Gregory’s Political Primer by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Revolution in Our Lifetime: A Short History of the Black Panther Party by Donna Murch
Click for more detail about His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
Click for more detail about Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Click for more detail about Brave. Black. First. 100 Postcards by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Click for more detail about Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D.L. Hughley
Click for more detail about My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
Click for more detail about Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
Click for more detail about Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West
Click for more detail about How to Unlock Your Genius Using Black History by David Simon
Click for more detail about Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympic by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
Click for more detail about Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 by Julian Bond
Click for more detail about Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
Click for more detail about Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Click for more detail about Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
Click for more detail about The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X
Click for more detail about Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
Click for more detail about EMMA by Cheryl Wills
Click for more detail about Seven Sisters And A Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley
Click for more detail about She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Click for more detail about The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing by Raymond A. Winbush and Dr. Denise Wright
Click for more detail about Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Click for more detail about The Clan of Southern Man by John Valentine
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel
Click for more detail about Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Click for more detail about Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day
Click for more detail about Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
Click for more detail about 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Click for more detail about The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018 by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Click for more detail about Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis
Click for more detail about Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
Click for more detail about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali by Randal Maurice Jelks
Click for more detail about It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen
Click for more detail about New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition by Keisha N. Blain
Click for more detail about An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Click for more detail about Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built (The Life & Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate) by Margena A. Christian
Click for more detail about Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Click for more detail about Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle
Click for more detail about Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street by Wil Haygood
Click for more detail about Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
Click for more detail about Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker by Ron Howell
Click for more detail about What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump’s War on Civil Rights by Juan Williams
Click for more detail about Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones
Click for more detail about What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis
Click for more detail about Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell
Click for more detail about Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
Click for more detail about Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett
Click for more detail about The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement by Kevin Shird
Click for more detail about A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
Click for more detail about Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
Click for more detail about Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain
Click for more detail about Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
Click for more detail about Sojourner Truth: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
Click for more detail about The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Click for more detail about Keeping Peace: Reflections on Life, Legacy, Commitment and Struggle by Lasana D. Kazembe
Click for more detail about The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Click for more detail about Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American Experience by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
Click for more detail about The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Brawley
Click for more detail about Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer
Click for more detail about Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN: First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier by Ric Murphy
Click for more detail about Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach by Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Click for more detail about The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Click for more detail about Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History in and Around Washington, D.C. by Jesse J. Holland
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns
Click for more detail about The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
Click for more detail about Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Click for more detail about Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
Click for more detail about The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
Click for more detail about Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper
Click for more detail about Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by National Museum of African American History & Culture
Click for more detail about Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era by Shannon King
Click for more detail about Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James Mcgrath Morris
Click for more detail about Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Click for more detail about The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Click for more detail about The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
Click for more detail about My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
Click for more detail about Heav’nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley Poet Laureate of the American Revolution by Richard Kigel
Click for more detail about The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Dick Lehr
Click for more detail about Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland by Robyn C. Spencer
Click for more detail about Gordon Parks I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978 by Gordon Parks
Click for more detail about Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman
Click for more detail about They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
Click for more detail about The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair by Jay Morrison
Click for more detail about Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Mabel O. Wilson
Click for more detail about National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book by National Museum of African American History & Culture
Click for more detail about Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America by National Museum of African American History & Culture
Click for more detail about The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement by Nate Parker
Click for more detail about The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams
Click for more detail about Black Power 50 by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture by Lionel C. Bascom
Click for more detail about BYWORD “A Nation Called out of Their Name” by Mark Makabi
Click for more detail about The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby
Click for more detail about Beyond the Rope by Karlos K. Hill
Click for more detail about The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland by Damaris B. Hill
Click for more detail about 7 Little White Lies: The Conspiracy to Destroy the Black Self-Image by Jabari Osaze
Click for more detail about The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley
Click for more detail about The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Click for more detail about Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about The Radical King (King Legacy) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House by Jesse J. Holland
Click for more detail about Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation by Robert J. Norrell
Click for more detail about Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire by Shane White
Click for more detail about The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States by Ira Berlin
Click for more detail about Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
Click for more detail about Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom (American Crossroads) by Tiya Miles
Click for more detail about Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest by Ginger Adams Otis
Click for more detail about Thomas the Melungeon: His Locust Family of Free Persons of Color Civil and Revolutionary War Patriots by Gigi Best
Click for more detail about Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America by Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen
Click for more detail about America The Black Point Of View by Tony Rose
Click for more detail about 7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid by Michael Gordon Bennett
Click for more detail about African Americans of Tampa (Images of America) by Ersula Knox Odom
Click for more detail about Black Prophetic Fire by Cornel West
Click for more detail about Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
Click for more detail about First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart
Click for more detail about Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Click for more detail about How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Click for more detail about Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams
Click for more detail about The Reluctant African by Louis Emanuel Lomax
Click for more detail about Growing Up in the Black Belt: Negro Youth in the Rural South by Charles S. Johnson
Click for more detail about Bird by Angela Johnson
Click for more detail about The Negro Revolt by Louis Emanuel Lomax
Click for more detail about People of Color in Louisiana by Alice Dunbar-Nelson