Biography

The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country (2000)
Gates, Henry Louis
920.009 G                       

Alice Walker: a life (2004)
White, Evelyn C.
Biography: Walker                      

Along this way: the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (2000)
Johnson, James Weldon
Biography: Johnson                     

The autobiography of Malcolm X (1992)
X, Malcolm
Biography: X                       

The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Biography: King            

Bayard Rustin: troubles I’ve seen, a biography (1997)
Anderson, Jervis
Biography: Rustin                       

Black genius: and the American experience (1998)
Russell, Dick
973.0496 R                       

Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance (2004)
Obama, Barack
Biography: Obama                       

Have no fear: the Charles Evers story (1997)
Evers, Charles
Biography: Evers                       

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2002)
Frady, Marshall
Biography: King                       

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (2001)
Douglass, Frederick
Biography: Douglass

Open wide the freedom gates: a memoir (2003)
Height, Dorothy
Biography: Height                       

Ready for revolution: the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] (2003)
Carmichael, Stokely
Biography: Carmichael                       

Richard Wright: the life and times (2001)
Rowley, Hazel
Biography: Wright                       

A song flung up to heaven (2002)
Angelou, Maya
Biography: Angelou                       

Thurgood Marshall: American revolutionary (1998)
Williams, Juan
Biography: Marshall                       

To keep the waters troubled: the life of Ida B. Wells (1998)
McMurry, Linda O.
Biography: Wells                       

Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Ward, Geoffrey C.
(New) Biography: Johnson                        

Walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement (1998)
Lewis, John
Biography: Lewis                       

When race becomes real: black and white writers confront their personal histories (2002)
Singley, Bernestine (ed.)
305.8 S                       

W.E.B. Du Bois: the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963 (2000)
Lewis, David L.
Biography: Du Bois                       


History

African Americans in Michigan (2001)
Walker, Lewis
977.4 W                       

African Americans: opposing viewpoints (1997)
973.0496 D                       

American patriots: the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (2001)
Buckley, Gail Lumet
355.0089 B                       

Arc of justice: a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age (2004)
Boyle, Kevin
977.434 B                       

At the hands of persons unknown: the lynching of Black America (2002)
Dray, Phillip
364.134 D                       

Autobiography of a people: three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it (2000)
Boyd, Herb (ed.)
973.0496 B                       

Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy (2002)
Patterson, James T
344.0798 P                       

Civil rights chronicle: the African-American struggle for freedom (2003)
Carson, Clayborne
323.0973 C                       

The civil rights movement (2003)
Treanor, Nick
323.119 T                       

The dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation (2003)
Hansen, Drew D.
323.092 H                       

Freedom on my mind: the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience (2003)
Marable, Manning (ed.)
973.0496 M                       

Freedom’s journey: African American voices of the Civil War (2004)
Yacovone, Donald
973.709 Y                       

From slavery to freedom: a history of African Americans (2000)
Franklin, John Hope
973.0496 F                       

Jubilee: the emergence of African-American culture (2002)
Dodson, Howard
909.0496 S                       

Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65 (1998)
Branch, Taylor
973.049 B                       

The Routledge atlas of African American history (2000)
Earle, Jonathan Halperin
973.0496 E                       

Should America pay?: slavery and the raging debate on reparations (2003)
Winbush, Raymond A.
305.897 W                       

Slavery and the making of America (2005)
Horton, James Oliver
973.0496 H                       

This far by faith: stories from the African-American religious experience (2003)
Williams, Juan
277.3 W                       

To make our world anew: a history of African Americans (2000)
Kelley, Robin D.G. (ed.)
973.0496 K                       

A traveler’s guide to the civil rights movement (2004)
Carrier, Jim
917.5 C                       

Warriors don’t cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High (2002)
Beals, Melba
370.19 B                       

 

Literature

Double-take: a revisionist Harlem renaissance anthology (2001)
808.8 D                       

Giant steps: the new generation of African American writers (2000)
810.9 G                       

Harlem renaissance (2003)
McConnell, William S.
810.989 H                       

Historic speeches of African Americans (1993)
815.01 H                       

My soul has grown deep: classics of early African-American literature (2001)
810.8 W                       

Rise up singing: Black women writers on motherhood (2004)
810.8 R                       

Saints, sinners, saviors: strong Black women in African American literature (2001)
Harris, Trudier
810.9 H                       

Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women (2003)
818.608 S                       

Thurgood Marshall: his speeches, writings, arguments, opinions, and reminiscences (2001)
Marshall, Thurgood
347.732 M                       

The vintage book of African American poetry (2000)
811.008 V                       

Writings (2004)
Johnson, James Weldon
818.52 J              

 

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