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- 12 years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery
- 12 years a slave : illustrated
- true28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
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- true42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
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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
- trueA nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
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- A picture book of Frederick Douglass
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- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- A slave no more : [two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation]
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- A sure foundation
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- trueA voice named Aretha
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- A. Philip Randolph, pioneer of the civil rights movement
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- Alice Walker : freedom writer
- All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence
- 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
- trueAlone atop the hill : the autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, pioneer of the national Black press
- trueAlthea Gibson and Arthur Ashe : breaking down tennis's color barrier
- trueAmar'e Stoudemire
- America's black congressmen
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- trueAnd the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
- trueAngela Davis--an autobiography
- trueAnswering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Anyplace but here
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- Archibald Grimké : portrait of a Black independent
- trueArt from her heart : folk artist Clementine Hunter
- trueAs good as anybody : Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march towards freedom
- Assata : an autobiography
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- trueBad boy : a memoir
- trueBallerina dreams : from orphan to ballerina
- Ballerina dreams : from orphan to dancer
- Barack Obama
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- Barbara Jordan : breaking the barriers
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- trueBayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography
- Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement
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- 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
- Bearing 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
- trueBee fearless : dream like a kid
- trueBefore John was a jazz giant : a song of John Coltrane
- Before she was Harriet
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- trueBelieve : the victorious story of Eric LeGrand
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- Bessie Coleman : daring to fly
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- Beyoncé
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- 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
- Black and white sat down together : the reminiscences of an NAACP founder
- Black baby, white hands : a view from the crib
- Black 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
- Black history : more than just a month
- Black history from Civil War through today
- trueBlack inventors
- trueBlack leaders of the twentieth century
- Black lives : essays in African American biography
- trueBlack pioneers : an untold story
- Black pioneers in American history
- Black stars in orbit : NASA's African-American astronauts
- Blackthink : my life as black man and white man
- trueBlood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blue as the lake : a personal geography
- trueBone black : memories of girlhood
- Bone black : memories of girlhood
- Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington
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- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
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- trueBooker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- 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
- trueBy any means necessary : Malcolm X-- real, not reinvented : critical conversations on Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X
- trueBy my brother's side
- trueCapital Days : Michael Shiner's Journal and the Growth of Our Nation's Capital
- trueCatching the fire : Philip Simmons, blacksmith
- trueCathy Williams : from slave to Buffalo Soldier
- Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Chamique Holdsclaw : driving force
- Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali
- Charlie Parker played be bop
- trueChasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California
- Chasing 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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- trueConjure times : black magicians in America
- trueCoretta Scott
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- Coretta Scott King
- trueCornel West on Black prophetic fire
- trueCosby : his life and times
- Created equal : the lives and ideas of black American innovators
- trueCrossing the continent, 1527-1540 : the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South
- trueDamn near white : an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success
- trueDancing spirit : an autobiography
- David Robinson : all-star center
- Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- trueDenmark Vesey
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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. Charles Drew, medical pioneer
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Dreams from my father
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- trueDuke Ellington : his life in jazz with 21 activities
- Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
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- Ella Baker : freedom bound
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- Evers
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- Extraordinary black Americans : from colonial to contemporary times
- trueExtraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
- trueExtraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family
- trueFacing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- trueFeed your mind : a story of August Wilson
- trueFifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington
- trueFifty years in chains
- trueFirst in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson
- Five bold freedom fighters
- trueFive brilliant scientists
- trueFly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- For love of liberty : the story of America's black patriots : [a film]
- trueFor the love of the game : my story
- trueFor us, the living
- 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 Summer for young people : the violent season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
- trueFreedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's black daughter
- trueFriends for freedom : the Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
- From slave to Civil War hero : the life and times of Robert Smalls
- trueFrom slavery to wealth : the life of Scott Bond
- trueGame day
- trueGarrett Morgan : inventor of the traffic light and gas mask
- trueGeorge Washington Carver
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- trueGeorge Washington Carver : ingenious inventor
- Gerri Major's Black society
- 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
- Greyboy : finding blackness in a white world
- Greyboy : finding blackness in a white world
- trueGrowing up King : an intimate memoir
- Growing up black
- trueGrowing up black : from slave days to the present : 25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods
- trueHand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
- 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 : riding the freedom train
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- Harriet Tubman and the freedom train
- Having 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
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- 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
- trueHurricanes : a memoir
- Hurricanes : 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
- trueI heard God talking to me : William Edmondson and his stone carvings
- I never had it made
- 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 got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad
- 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 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
- Jackie Robinson
- trueJackie Robinson : American hero
- Jackie Robinson : baseball's civil rights legend
- trueJackie Robinson : breaking barriers in baseball
- 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 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 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
- King : a biography
- trueKing : a 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
- Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes : American poet
- Langston Hughes : poet
- Langston Hughes : the voice of Harlem
- Lay my burden down : a folk history of slavery
- trueLeBron James
- 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 out of context : which includes a proposal for the non-violent takeover of the House of Representatives
- trueLift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker
- Little heroes of color : 50 who made a big difference
- trueLittle leaders : bold women in black history
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- trueLittle legends : exceptional men in black history
- trueLittle people, big dreams, Aretha Franklin
- trueLook for me in the whirlwind : from the Panther 21 to 21st-century revolutions
- 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
- trueM.L.K. : journey of a King
- 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
- trueMae Jemison
- Mae Jemison
- Mae Jemison : out of this world
- Mae Jemison : the first African American woman astronaut
- trueMahalia : a life in gospel music
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- 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
- trueMalcolm X : a fire burning brightly
- Malcolm 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
- trueMalcolm X. : a life of reinvention
- trueManchild in the promised land
- trueMarch forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
- March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world : -- and more stories about African American history
- trueMarian Anderson
- trueMarian Anderson : a great singer
- Marian Wright Edelman : children's champion
- Marian Wright Edelman, children's champion
- Marion Jones : fast and fearless
- trueMartin & Anne : the kindred spirits of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King : the peaceful warrior
- 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 peaceful leader
- Martin Luther King Jr. : walking in the light
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- trueMartin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : champion of civil rights
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : man of peace
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : minister and civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day : honoring a man of peace
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the march toward freedom
- Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader
- Martin Luther King, Jr., on leadership : inspiration & wisdom for challenging times
- trueMartin Luther King, Jr., spirit-led prophet : a biography