African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans
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Incoming Resources
- Up from slavery
- An uncertain journey, a memoir, William Louis Gross, Jr. with T. A. Simmons
- Let the trumpet sound, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen B. Oates
- Kevin Garnett, shake up the game, by Mark Stewart
- T.D. Jakes, Sam Wellman
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- Paul Robeson, a life of activism and art, Lindsey R. Swindall
- Kanye West, conquering music and fashion, Tom Head and Deirdre Head
- Michael Jordan
- On the side of my people, a religious life of Malcolm X, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr
- Eulogies, Amiri Baraka
- Madam C.J. Walker, the woman behind hair care products for African Americans
- King of ragtime, the story of Scott Joplin, by Stephen Costanza
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson, quest for freedom, 1939-1976, Paul Robeson
- Coretta Scott King
- Booker T. Washington, great American educator
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- Toni Morrison
- Malcolm X, Gail Fay
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- George Washington Carver, the peanut scientist
- Ralph Bunche
- Historia Afroamericana, Una Guía Fascinante para entender los eventos y personas que moldearon la Historia de los Estados Unidos, Captivating History
- Dr. King is tired too!!, (a family walk)
- Sing, Aretha, sing!, Aretha Franklin, "Respect," and the civil rights movement, Hanif Abdurraqib ; illustrated by Ashley Evans
- Josephine, the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
- Flying high, the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles, Michelle Meadows ; illustrated by Ebony Glenn
- Black in China, Aaron A. Vessup
- Richard Porter and I, The Hand of Circumstance, Angela Solomon
- Speak to the mountain, the Tommie Waites story, as told to Dr. Bessie W. Blake
- Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, Charlotte Etinde-Crompton and Samuel Willard Crompton
- The everything Martin Luther King Jr. book, the struggle, the dream, the legacy, Jessica McElrath ; foreword by Dale P. Andrews
- Who was Duke Ellington?, by M. D. Payne ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- LeBron James, by Marty Gitlin
- Serena vs. Venus, how a photograph spotlighted the fight for equality
- The black man, his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements
- From Liberty to Magnolia, in search of the American dream, Janice S. Ellis
- Cathy Williams, From Slave to Buffalo Soldier
- March forward, girl, from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- Autobiography of a people, three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it, Herb Boyd ; [foreword by Gordon Parks]
- Prince Fielder, home-run king
- Jesse Owens, track-and-field Olympian
- Tessa Thompson, Dwayne Hicks
- Malcolm X, another side of the movement
- If the creek don't rise, my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War, Rita Williams
- Gullah statesman, Robert Smalls from slavery to Congress, 1839-1915, Edward A. Miller, Jr
- A golden voice, how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation, Ted Williams with Bret Witter
- Frederick Douglass, young defender of human rights, written by Elisabeth P. Myers ; illustrated by Cathy Morrison
- A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
- Reframing Randolph, labor, black freedom, and the legacies of A. Philip Randolph, edited by Andrew E. Kersten and Clarence Lang
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