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- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 12 years a slave : illustrated
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- trueA dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
- trueA gentleman of color : the life of James Forten
- trueA golden voice : how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation
- A history of black achievement in America
- A man called White : the autobiography of Walter White
- trueA man for all seasons : the life of George Washington Carver
- trueA marked man : the assassination of Malcolm X
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- trueA picture book of Frederick Douglass
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- trueA picture book of George Washington Carver
- trueA picture book of Harriet Tubman
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- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
- A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
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- A sure foundation
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- trueA voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
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- Addy : an American girl
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- Alice Walker : freedom writer
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- trueAll aboard! : Elijah McCoy's steam engine
- All around town : the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts
- All is never said : the narrative of Odette Harper Hines
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- trueAmos Fortune : free man
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- trueAnd the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
- trueAnswering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- trueAnyplace but here
- Anyplace but here
- Archibald Grimké : portrait of a Black independent
- Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson
- trueArt from her heart : folk artist Clementine Hunter
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- Assata : an autobiography
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- trueBayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography
- Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement
- trueBe a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- trueBe free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- trueBearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- trueBearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1968
- Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century
- trueBeating the odds : Eddie Brown's investing and life strategies
- trueBecoming Beyoncé : the untold story
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- Benjamin Banneker : mathematician and stargazer
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- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly
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- trueBessie Stringfield : tales of the talented tenth
- trueBeyoncé
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- Beyond defeat
- trueBigmama's
- Bill Pickett : courageous African-American cowboy
- trueBill Pickett, rodeo-ridin' cowboy
- trueBird & Diz
- trueBirth of the cool : how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound
- trueBlack & white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
- trueBlack Apollo of science : the life of Ernest Everett Just
- trueBlack Indian : a memoir
- trueBlack and white airmen : their true history
- trueBlack and white sat down together : the reminiscences of an NAACP founder
- Black baby, white hands : a view from the crib
- trueBlack boy : a record of childhood and youth
- trueBlack cadet in a White bastion : Charles Young at West Point
- Black congressional Reconstruction orators and their orations, 1869-1879
- trueBlack diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
- trueBlack hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers
- Black heroes of the 20th century
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- Black history : more than just a month
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- Black lives : essays in African American biography
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- Black stars in orbit : NASA's African-American astronauts
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- trueBloods : an oral history of the Vietnam War
- Blue as the lake : a personal geography
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- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
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- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
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- trueBorn bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America
- Born to be
- trueBorn to swing : Lil Hardin Armstrong's life in jazz
- trueBrother in the bush : an African American's search for self in East Africa
- Brother minister : the assassination of Malcolm X : El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
- Buffalo soldiers : the story of Emanuel Stance
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- trueBy my brother's side
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- trueCatching the fire : Philip Simmons, blacksmith
- trueCathy Williams : from slave to Buffalo Soldier
- Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Chamique Holdsclaw : driving force
- trueChampion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- trueCharlie Parker played be bop
- trueChasing space
- trueChuck Berry : the autobiography
- Citizen King
- Civil rights childhood
- Civil rights pioneer : a story about Mary Church Terrell
- trueClaiming kin : confronting the history of an African American family
- Colin Powell
- Condoleezza Rice
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- trueCornel West on Black prophetic fire
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- Created equal : the lives and ideas of black American innovators
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- David Robinson : all-star center
- Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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- trueDiary of Charlotte Forten : a free Black girl before the Civil War
- Die free : a heroic family tale
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- trueDizzy
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- Doce años de esclavitud
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- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Ella Baker : freedom bound
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- trueExtraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
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- trueFeed your mind : a story of August Wilson
- trueFifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- trueFifty years in chains
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- Five bold freedom fighters
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- For love of liberty : the story of America's black patriots : [a film]
- trueFor the love of the game : my story
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- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
- trueFrederick Douglass : a noble life
- Frederick Douglass : leader against slavery
- Frederick Douglass : slave, writer, abolitionist
- trueFrederick Douglass : voice for justice, voice for freedom
- trueFrederick Douglass for kids : his life and times with 21 activities
- trueFreedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's black daughter
- trueFriends for freedom : the Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
- 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
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- George Washington Carver : from slave to scientist
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- Gerri Major's Black society
- trueGo and tell Pharaoh : the autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton
- Go free or die : a story about Harriet Tubman
- Grandma Lois remembers : an African-American family story
- trueGrandpa stops a war : a Paul Robeson story
- trueGraphic Library, Booker T. Washington, great American educator
- trueGraphic Library, Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
- trueGraphic Library, Jackie Robinson, baseball's great pioneer
- Great Negroes, past and present
- trueGrowing up King : an intimate memoir
- Growing up black
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- trueHand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
- trueHank Aaron : brave in every way
- trueHank Aaron : brave in every way
- Happy birthday, Martin Luther King
- Harriet
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- Harriet Tubman
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- Harriet Tubman : antislavery activist
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- Harriet Tubman : freedombound
- Harriet Tubman : riding the freedom train
- trueHarriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- trueHarriet Tubman and the freedom train
- trueHaving our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- trueHaving our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years
- trueHeavy : an American memoir
- trueHenry Aaron's dream
- trueHenry Ossawa Tanner : his boyhood dream comes true
- trueHeroes for civil rights
- trueHeroes of black history : biographies of four great Americans
- trueHidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- trueHidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Human computer : Mary Jackson, engineer
- Hurricanes : a memoir
- trueHurricanes : a memoir
- trueHurry freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California
- trueI am Harriet Tubman
- trueI am Jackie Robinson
- trueI am Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I am Richard Pryor
- trueI am Rosa Parks
- I am Rosa Parks
- trueI heard God talking to me : William Edmondson and his stone carvings
- I never had it made
- trueI never had it made : an autobiography
- trueI was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives
- I was born a slave : the story of Harriet Jacobs
- I was born a slave : the story of Harriet Jacobs
- trueI've seen the promised land : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueI, Matthew Henson
- I, too, sing America : the story of Langston Hughes
- trueIf I only had a horn : young Louis Armstrong
- trueIf a bus could talk : the story of Rosa Parks
- trueIf the creek don't rise : my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War
- In battle for peace : the story of my 83rd birthday
- trueIncredible African-American jazz musicians
- trueInside a thug's heart : with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur
- Interesting people : Black American history makers
- trueIntroducing Bert Williams : burnt cork, Broadway, and the story of America's first Black star
- trueIt jes' happened : when Bill Traylor started to draw
- trueJ is for jazz
- trueJackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist
- trueJackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- trueJackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
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- Jackie Robinson : baseball's civil rights legend
- trueJackie Robinson : champion for equality
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- trueJackie Robinson and the big game
- trueJackie Robinson plays ball
- trueJane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- trueJay-Z : CEO of hip-hop
- trueJazz age Josephine
- Jerry Rice : speedy wide receiver
- trueJesse : the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
- trueJesse Owens
- Jesse Owens : Olympic star
- trueJesse Owens : an American life
- trueJesse Owens : facing down Hitler
- Jesse Owens : track-and-field Olympian
- trueJimi : sounds like a rainbow : a story of the young Jimi Hendrix
- trueJoe Black : more than a Dodger
- trueJoe Gans : a biography of the first African American world boxing champion
- trueJoe Louis : America's fighter
- trueJosephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
- Josephine Baker
- Judy Johnson
- trueJump back, Paul : the life and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
- trueJump! : from the life of Michael Jordan
- trueJust a lucky so and so : the story of Louis Armstrong
- trueJust another southern town : Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital
- trueKanye West
- trueKareem
- Katherine Johnson
- trueKatherine Johnson
- Ken Griffey, Jr : super center fielder
- trueKing : a biography
- trueKing : a biography
- trueKing : a comics biography
- trueKing : pilgrimage to the mountaintop
- trueKnockin' on wood : starring Peg Leg Bates
- trueKnockout! : photobiography of boxer Joe Louis
- Kobe Bryant : "slam dunk" champion = campeón del "slam dunk"
- Kobe Bryant : basketball big shot
- Kobe Bryant : hard to the hoop
- trueLangston Hughes
- Langston Hughes : American poet
- Langston Hughes : poet
- Langston Hughes : the voice of Harlem
- Lay my burden down : a folk history of slavery
- Learning about assertiveness from the life of Oprah Winfrey
- Learning about bravery from the life of Harriet Tubman
- Learning about dedication from the life of Frederick Douglass
- Learning about dignity from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr
- Learning about responsibility from the life of Colin Powell
- Lebron James
- trueLeon's story
- trueLife doesn't frighten me
- trueLife doesn't frighten me
- trueLife out of context : which includes a proposal for the non-violent takeover of the House of Representatives
- Little heroes of color : 50 who made a big difference
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- trueLittle leaders : bold women in black history
- trueLittle legends : exceptional men in black history
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- trueLook up with me : Neil deGrasse Tyson : a life among the stars
- Look what brown can do!
- trueLopez Lomong
- Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia
- trueLost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin
- trueLouis Armstrong : an American genius
- trueLouis Armstrong : jazz musician
- trueLyrics 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
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- MLK : the assassination tapes
- Madam C.J. Walker : inventor and millionaire
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- Madam C.J. Walker : the inspiring life story of the hair care entrepreneur
- Madame C.J. Walker : building a business empire
- Mae Jemison
- trueMae Jemison
- Mae Jemison : out of this world
- Mae Jemison : the first African American woman astronaut
- trueMahalia : a life in gospel music
- trueMakes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America
- trueMaking rent in Bed-Stuy : a memoir of trying to make it in New York City
- trueMaking their voices heard : the inspiring friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
- trueMalcolm : the life of a man who changed Black America
- Malcolm A to X : the man and his ideas
- trueMalcolm Little : the boy who grew up to become Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
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- trueMalcolm X : a fire burning brightly
- trueMalcolm X : a life of reinvention
- Malcolm X : a voice for Black America
- Malcolm X : his life and legacy
- Malcolm X : his life and legacy
- Malcolm X : make it plain
- Malcolm X : the man and his times