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- 100 African-Americans who shaped American history
- 9 African-American inventors
- A biographical history of Blacks in America since 1528
- A century and some change : my life before the president called my name
- A century of great African-Americans
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi
- A colored man round the world
- A colored man's journey through 20th century segregated America
- A colored woman in a white world
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- A free Black girl before the Civil War : the diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854
- A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- A golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A history of black achievement in America
- A love supreme : real-life stories of Black love
- A marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
- A picture book of George Washington Carver
- A salute to--
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
- A southern family in white & Black : the Cuneys of Texas
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- A taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A taste of power : a black woman's story
- A way out of no way : the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young
- A. Philip Randolph : a biographical portrait
- A. Philip Randolph : messenger for the masses
- A. Philip Randolph : union leader and civil rights crusader
- A. Philip Randolph and the African American labor movement
- A. Philip Randolph, pioneer of the civil rights movement
- Ace of spades : a memoir / by David Matthews
- Adjust your color : the truth of Petey Greene
- Africa to America : from the Middle Passage through the 1930s
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
- African American healers
- African American history for dummies
- African American inventors
- African American lives
- African American lives, 2
- African American musicians
- African American religious leaders
- African American slave narratives : an anthology
- African American voices
- African American women scientists and inventors
- African American women writers
- African Americans : voices of triumph, Leadership
- African Americans : voices of triumph. Creative fire
- African Americans who were first
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- African-American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of blacks in America
- African-American inventors
- African-American inventors II : Bill Becoat, George Carruthers, Meredith Gourdine, Jesse Hoagland, Wanda Sigur
- African-American inventors III : Patricia Bath, Philip Emeagwali, Henry Sampson, Valerie Thomas, Peter Tolliver
- African-American odyssey : the Stewarts, 1853-1963
- African-American poets
- African-American scientists
- African-American social leaders and activists
- African-American stories of triumph over adversity : joy cometh in the morning
- Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry
- Al Sharpton
- Alex Haley : author of Roots
- Alice Walker
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- All is never said : the narrative of Odette Harper Hines
- American civil rights leaders
- Amos Fortune : free man
- And not afraid to dare : the stories of ten African-American women
- And the walls came tumbling down
- And we know : the life of Willye Frank Clayton Dennis
- Anfernee Hardaway
- Angela Davis--an autobiography
- Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
- Anyplace but here
- Arthur Ashe and his match with history
- Artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography and Black identity politics : racialization in twentieth-century America
- 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
- Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Barack Obama
- Barbara Jordan : congresswoman, lawyer, educator
- Battles and victories of Allen Allensworth
- Bayard Rustin : behind the scenes of the civil rights movement
- Bayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography
- Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- 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 witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century
- Beating against the barriers : biographical essays in nineteenth-century Afro-American history
- Benjamin Banneker : mathematician and stargazer
- Bethune : out of darkness into the light of freedom
- Betty Shabazz : sharing the vision of Malcolm X
- Beyoncé
- Beyoncé : pop star
- Big star fallin' mama : five women in Black music
- Bill Pickett, rodeo ridin' cowboy
- Black & white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
- Black Americana
- Black Atlantic writers of the eighteenth century : living the new exodus in England and the Americas
- Black Bolshevik : autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
- Black Judas : William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
- Black Judas : William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro
- Black abolitionists and freedom fighters
- Black baby, white hands : a view from the crib
- Black cadet in a White bastion : Charles Young at West Point
- Black congressional Reconstruction orators and their orations, 1869-1879
- Black courage, 1775-1783 : documentary of Black participation in the American Revolution
- Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
- Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West
- Black hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers
- Black heroes
- Black heroes and heroines
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black leadership in America : from Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson
- Black light : the African American hero
- Black lives : essays in African American biography
- Black pioneers : an untold story
- Black pioneers of science and invention
- Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
- Black stars in orbit : NASA's African-American astronauts
- Black stars of professional wrestling
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bobo Brazil
- Bone Black : memories of girlhood
- Booker T. Washington : Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow
- Booker T. Washington : educator and leader
- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
- Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born to be
- Breaking barriers : a memoir
- Breaking through the wall : a marathoner's story
- Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King
- Burn, baby! burn! : the autobiography of Magnificent Montague
- Bursting bonds : enlarged edition [of] The heir of slaves : the autobiography of a "new Negro"
- Can you imagine?
- Catching the fire : Philip Simmons, blacksmith
- Cathy Williams : from slave to female Buffalo Soldier
- Certain people : America's black elite
- Charles H. Wesley : the intellectual tradition of a Black historian
- Charlotte Forten : a Black teacher in the Civil War
- Citizen King
- Citizen King
- Civil rights : the struggle for Black equality
- Civil rights childhood
- Civil rights pioneer : a story about Mary Church Terrell
- Claiming kin : confronting the history of an African American family
- Clarence Thomas
- Colin Powell
- Colin Powell
- Colin Powell : soldier and patriot
- Coming home : a story of Josh Gibson, baseball's greatest home run hitter
- Condi : the life of a steel magnolia
- Condoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography
- Confidence counts
- Contemporary Black leaders
- Convicted in the womb : one man's journey from prisoner to peacemaker
- Coretta : the story of Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King : striving for civil rights
- Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators
- Damn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success
- Damn the alligators - full speed ahead : the autobiography of Porcher L. Taylor, Jr., Ph. D.
- Deaf, dumb, and Black : an account of the life of a family
- Defending the spirit : a Black life in America
- Distinguished African American political and governmental leaders
- Don't explain : a song of Billie Holiday
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr : a historical perspective
- Dreams from my father
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Dred & Harriet Scott : their family story
- Duke Ellington : a life of music
- Echoes from a pioneer life
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Elevating the race : Theophilus G. Steward, Black theology, and the making of an African American civil society, 1865-1924
- Ella Baker : freedom bound
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Eulogies
- Evidences of progress among colored people
- Extraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
- Eyewitness : the Negro in American history
- Famous American Negroes
- Famous firsts of Black women
- Fannie Lou Hamer : fighting for the right to vote
- Farrakhan
- Feliz cumpleaños, Martin Luther King
- Female leaders
- Fifty years in chains
- Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
- Finding Grace : two sisters and the search for meaning beyond the color line
- First in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson
- Five brave explorers
- Five brilliant scientists
- Follow in their footsteps
- For love of liberty : the story of America's black patriots : [a film]
- Frederick Douglass
- Free at last! : the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Freedom facts and firsts : 400 years of the African American civil rights experience
- Freedom river
- Freedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's Black daughter
- Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War
- From fugitive slave to free man : the autobiographies of William Wells Brown
- From slave to Civil War hero : the life and times of Robert Smalls
- From slavery to affluence : memoirs of Robert Anderson, ex-slave
- From slavery to wealth : the life of Scott Bond
- From the Virginia plantation to the National Capitol
- Generations in Black and white : photographs
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver : a photo biography
- George Washington Williams : a biography
- George Washington Williams, a biography
- Gifted hands : the Ben Carson story
- Go and tell Pharaoh : the autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton
- Goal dust : an autobiography
- Going back home : an artist returns to the South
- Grandma Lois remembers : an African-American family story
- Grant Hill
- Great African Americans in history
- Great African Americans in literature
- Great African Americans in the arts
- Great African-American lawyers : raising the bar of freedom
- Great Black Americans : formerly titled Great American Negroes
- Great black leaders : ancient and modern
- Great negroes, past and present, Volume two
- Growing up King : an intimate memoir
- Growing up black : from the slave days to the present - 25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the underground railroad
- Harriet Tubman : freedom fighter
- Harriet Tubman : freedom's trailblazer
- Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Here I stand
- Historical Afro-American biographies
- Holt Collier : his life, his Roosevelt hunts, and the origin of the teddy bear
- Hoops with Swoopes
- Huey : spirit of the panther
- Huey P. Newton : the radical theorist
- Hurricanes : a memoir
- Hurricanes : a memoir
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I refused to leave the 'hood
- I shook up the world : the incredible life of Muhammad Ali
- I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives
- I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
- I, too, sing America : the story of Langston Hughes
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : crusader against lynching
- If the creek don't rise : my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War
- In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
- In the garden of our dreams : memoirs of a marriage
- Inside a thug's heart : with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur
- Interesting people : Black American history makers
- It is well with my soul : the extraordinary life of a 106-year-old woman
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee : champion athlete
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson : baseball's civil rights legend
- Jackie's nine : Jackie Robinson's values to live by : courage, determination, teamwork, persistence, integrity, persistence [sic], commitment, excellence
- James Baldwin
- James Meredith and school desegregation
- Janet Jackson
- Jerry Rice : star wide receiver
- Jerry Rice : touchdown talent
- Jesse : the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Jackson : a biography
- Jesse Jackson, America's David
- Jim Beckwourth : Black mountain man and war chief of the Crows
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimi Hendrix
- John Coltrane : a sound supreme
- John Washington's Civil War : a slave narrative
- Johnnie Cochran
- Journeys in black, Luther Vandross
- Julius Erving
- Julius Erving
- Karl Malone : star forward
- King remembered
- Kinship : a family's journey in Africa and America
- Knocking down barriers : my fight for Black America
- Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes : an illustrated edition
- Langston Hughes : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Learning about achievement from the life of Maya Angelou
- Let the trumpet sound : a life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let's meet Frederick Douglass
- Let's meet Jackie Robinson
- Let's meet Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let's meet Sojourner Truth
- Living our stories, telling our truths : autobiography and the making of the African-American intellectual tradition
- Looking for Farrakhan
- Lorraine Hansberry : award-winning playwright and civil rights activist
- Lorraine Hansberry : playwright and voice of justice
- Lost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin
- Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Madam C.J. Walker : inventor and millionaire
- Madam C.J. Walker : self-made businesswoman
- Mahalia Jackson : young gospel singer
- Make it plain : standing up and speaking out
- Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America
- Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America
- Malcolm : the life of a man who changed Black America
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X : a biography
- Malcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : his life and legacy
- Malcolm X : the FBI file
- Malcolm X, make it plain
- Manchild in the promised land
- Manchild in the promised land
- Marching across the color line : A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights in the World War II era
- Marcus Garvey : look for me in the whirlwind
- Marcus Garvey, life and lessons : a centennial companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers
- Marian Wright Edelman : the making of a crusader
- Marion Jones : fast and fearless
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King Jr : the man and the dream
- Martin Luther King Jr. : in his own words
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : a life
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : an oral history of his religious witness and his life
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : minister and civil rights activist
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : preacher, freedom fighter, peacemaker
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day : honoring a man of peace
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on leadership : inspiration & wisdom for challenging times
- Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr., spirit-led prophet : a biography
- Martin Luther King, Jr.--to the mountaintop
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Mary McLeod Bethune : a biography
- Max Yergan : race man, internationalist, cold warrior
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou : America's poetic voice
- Messengers : portraits of African American ministers, evangelists, gospel singers, and other messengers of the Word
- Michael Jackson
- Michael Jordan, basketball great
- Michelle Obama : first lady of hope
- Michelle Obama : health advocate
- Miles Davis
- Militant mediator--Whitney M. Young, Jr.
- Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman
- Mississippi to Madrid : memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Mixed : my life in black and white
- Morgan Freeman
- Moving mountains : the principles and purposes of Leon Sullivan
- Mr. Civil Rights : the story of Thurgood Marshall
- Muhammad Ali
- Mumbet : the life and times of Elizabeth Freeman : the true story of a slave who won her freedom
- Murder in Memphis : the FBI and the assassination of Martin Luther King
- My American life : from rage to entitlement : a memoir
- My Confederate kinfolk : a twenty-first century freedwoman confronts her roots
- My dream of Martin Luther King
- My larger education : chapters from my experience
- Mysterious Thelonious
- Nappy : growing up Black and female in America
- Nappy : growing up black and female in America
- Narrative of my escape from slavery
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- Nat Love : African American cowboy
- Nat Turner : rebellious slave
- Nat Turner and the Virginia slave revolt
- Negro authors and composers of the United States
- Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey
- Nikki Giovanni, poet of the people
- Not even past : Barack Obama and the burden of race
- Notable Black American scientists
- On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie
- On my own at 107 : reflections on life without Bessie
- On the court with-- Grant Hill
- On the side of my people : a religious life of Malcolm X
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey : a voice for the people
- Panther baby : a life of rebellion and reinvention
- Parallel time : growing up in black and white
- Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin
- Passing for white : race, religion, and the Healy family, 1820-1920
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson : a life of activism and art
- Paul Robeson : a voice to remember
- Paul Robeson : artist and citizen
- Paul Robeson : here I stand
- Paul Robeson : the life and times of a free Black man
- Paul Robeson : world famous singer, actor, activist
- Paul Robeson, the great forerunner
- Pearl's secret : a Black man's search for his white family
- Pearl's secret : a black man's search for his white family
- Phillis Wheatley
- Phillis Wheatley : first published African-American poet
- Phillis Wheatley : legendary African-American poet
- Pierre Toussaint
- Pioneers in protest
- Pioneers of discovery
- Portraits of exceptional African American scientists
- Prepared for a purpose : the inspiring true story of how one woman saved an Atlanta school under siege
- Pride of family
- Pride of family : four generations of American women of color
- Princess of the press : the story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Profiles in Black : biographical sketches of 100 living Black unsung heroes
- Profiles of Black success : thirteen creative geniuses who changed the world
- Prophet of rage : a life of Louis Farrakhan and his nation
- Queen Latifah
- Race man : the rise and fall of the "fighting editor, " John Mitchell, Jr.
- Race woman : the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
- Ralph Bunche : model Negro or American other?
- Ralph David Abernathy
- Recollections of a former slave
- Recorder of the Black experience : a biography of Monroe Nathan Work
- Reframing Randolph : labor, black freedom, and the legacies of A. Philip Randolph
- Remembering Malcolm : the story of Malcolm X from inside the Muslim mosque by his assistant minister, Benjamin Karim
- Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
- Reviving the spirit : a generation of African Americans goes home to church
- Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city : the life and times of an urban reformer
- Ron Brown : an uncommon life
- Ronald McNair
- Rooted against the wind : personal essays
- Roots
- Roots : [the saga of an American family]
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks
- Run the show like CEO Oprah Winfrey
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Satchel Paige : the best arm in baseball
- Savion! : my life in dance
- Say hey : a song of Willie Mays
- Scott Joplin : the king of ragtime
- Servants of the people : the 1960s legacy of African-American leadership
- Seventh child : a family memoir of Malcolm X
- Shaking the tree : a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women
- Six lessons for six sons : an extraordinary father, a simple formula for success
- Sky kings : black pioneers of professional basketball
- Slave narratives
- Slave narratives : a folk history of slavery in the United States, from interviews with former slaves
- Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
- Slavery time when I was chillun
- Slaves who dared : the stories of ten African-American heroes
- Sojourner Truth
- Sojourner Truth : abolitionist and women's rights activist
- Southern homecoming traditions : recipes and remembrances
- Spike Lee
- Sports great Deion Sanders
- Steel drivin' man : John Henry, the untold story of an American legend
- Step by step : a memoir of hope, friendship, perseverance, and living the American dream
- Stevie Wonder
- Stick to it : the story of Wilma Rudolph
- Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup
- Story painter : the life of Jacob Lawrence
- Sweet summer : growing up with and without my dad
- Target zero : a life in writing
- Teammates : Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen
- Terrell Davis : toughing it out
- The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country
- The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present
- The Cayton legacy : an African American family
- The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives
- The Farrakhan factor : African-American writers on leadership, nationhood, and minister Louis Farrakhan
- The Federal Writers' Project's mirror to America : the Florida reflection
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The Negro leagues : the story of Black baseball
- The Triple Nickles : America's first all-Black paratroop unit
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Malcolm X
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough : an American journey from slavery to scholarship
- The black digital elite : African American leaders of the information revolution
- The blues singers : ten who rocked the world
- The butler : a witness to history
- The complete idiot's guide to African American history
- The daring escape of Ellen Craft
- The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation
- The golden road : notes on my gentrification
- The house on Childress Street : a memoir
- The joy of the journey : the life of Nathaniel L. Davis
- The life and legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
- The life and legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
- The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
- The making of "Mammy Pleasant" : a Black entrepreneur in nineteenth-century San Francisco
- The making of Black revolutionaries
- The making of a Black scholar : from Georgia to the Ivy League
- The man from Essence : creating a magazine for Black women
- The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad
- The mind of Frederick Douglass
- The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
- The narrative and selected writings
- The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave
- The other Malcolm, "Shorty" Jarvis : his memoir
- The pact : three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream
- The professor and the pupil : the politics of W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson
- The riot within : my journey from rebellion to redemption
- The river of no return : the autobiography of a Black militant and the life and death of SNCC
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The seventeenth child
- The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation
- The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves
- The story of Harriet Tubman : conductor of the underground railroad
- The story of Muhammad Ali
- The story of Nat Love
- The story of Ruby Bridges
- The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire
- The third door : the autobiography of an American Negro woman
- The ties that bind : [a memoir of race, memory, and redemption]
- The ties that bind : a memoir of race, memory, and redemption
- The time and place that gave me life
- The trials of Muhammad Ali
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson : an artist's journey, 1898-1939
- The world of Marcus Garvey : race and class in modern society
- The world of Marcus Garvey : race and class in modern society
- Then darkness fled : the liberating wisdom of Booker T. Washington
- There will be no miracles here
- Thirty years a slave : the autobiography of Louis Hughes : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation in the home of the planter
- This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s
- This little light of mine : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
- This side of glory : the autobiography of David Hilliard and the story of the Black Panther Party
- Through my eyes
- Thurgood Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall : civil rights attorney and Supreme Court justice
- To tell a free story : the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865
- To the mountaintop : Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968
- To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice
- Toni Morrison : the magic of words
- Triple exposure : Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Tupac Shakur
- Tupac Shakur
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave
- Twelve years a slave
- Twice as good : Condoleezza Rice and her path to power
- Twilight people : one man's journey to find his roots
- Two biographies by African-American women
- Two talented and affluent Black American brothers : James and John of Florida
- Uncensored : my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America
- Unchained memories : readings from the slave narratives
- Unchained memories : readings from the slave narratives
- Uncle Tom or new Negro? : African Americans reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from slavery one hundred years later
- Unshakable faith : Booker T. Washington & George Washington Carver : a biography
- Up from history : the life of Booker T. Washington
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery
- Up from slavery : an autobiography
- Up from slavery : an autobiography
- Up from slavery : an autobiography
- Up from slavery : authoritative text, contexts, and composition history, criticism
- Up from the ghetto
- Venus Williams
- Vernon can read! : a memoir
- Vision of beauty : the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
- W.C. Handy : founder of the blues
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- W.E.B. Du Bois : American prophet
- W.E.B. Du Bois : Black radical democrat
- W.E.B. Du Bois : a biography
- W.E.B. Du Bois : champion of civil rights
- W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963
- W.E.B. DuBois
- W.E.B. DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919
- W.E.B. DuBois: Black radical democrat
- Waking from the dream : my life in the Black middle class
- Walking with presidents : Louis Martin and the rise of Black political power
- Walter White : the dilemma of Black identity in America
- Was Huck Black? : Mark Twain and African-American voices
- We shall overcome : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black freedom struggle
- Weezie
- What I had was singing : the story of Marian Anderson
- What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- What next : a memoir toward world peace
- When white is Black
- White : the biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP