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Book/Article Titlesort iconBibliography Subject
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem RenaissanceAAH Biography
A Brief Biography of Booker T. WashingtonAAH Biography
A Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and His Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism, 1854-1933AAH Biography
A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth AAH Biography
A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James FortenAAH Biography
A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition AAH Biography
A Passion for Equality: George A. Wiley and the MovementAAH Biography
A Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights MovementAAH Biography
A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles GordoneAAH Biography
A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee AirmanAAH Biography
A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait AAH Biography
A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the VanguardAAH Biography
Aaron Douglas: African American ModernistAAH Biography
Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem RenaissanceAAH Biography
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr: The Political Biography of an American DilemmaAAH Biography
Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and DiscontentAAH Biography
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawAAH Biography
America's First Black General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1880-1970AAH Biography
American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th CenturyAAH Biography
And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Paris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi AAH Biography
Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical IntroductionAAH Biography
Anthony Burns: A HistoryAAH Biography
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector, A BiographyAAH Biography
At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann PetryAAH Biography
Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington Jr., and His Times AAH Biography
Barbara Jordan: American Hero AAH Biography
Bayard Rustin: American DreamerAAH Biography
Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National LeaderAAH Biography
Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights MartyrAAH Biography
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography AAH Biography
BessieAAH Biography
Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith Before and After Malcolm XAAH Biography
Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times AAH Biography
Biography of an American Bondman: By His DaughterAAH Biography
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just AAH Biography
Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Black PowerAAH Biography
Black Minqua: The Life and Times of Henry GreenAAH Biography
Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833AAH Biography
Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-1972 AAH Biography
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black Millionaire AAH Biography
Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908) AAH Biography
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban SouthAAH Biography
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth CenturyAAH Biography
Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan AAH Biography
Booker T. Washington: An Appreciation of the Man and His Times AAH Biography
Booker T. Washington: Education and Inter-Racial Interpreter AAH Biography
Booker T. Washington: Educator and Inter-Racial InterpreterAAH Biography
Booker T. Washington: Interpretative Essays AAH Biography
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American HeroAAH Biography
Butterfly McQueen RememberedAAH Biography
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy WatersAAH Biography
Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817: A Black Quaker's "Voice from within the Veil" AAH Biography
Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History AAH Biography
Chappie: America's First Black Four Star General, the Life and Times of Daniel James, Jr. AAH Biography
Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance AAH Biography
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity AAH Biography
Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa SchuylerAAH Biography
Condoleezza Rice: An American LifeAAH Biography
Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of PrayerAAH Biography
Daniel Hale Williams: Negro SurgeonAAH Biography
Dark Voices: W. E. B. DuBois and American Thought, 1888-1903 AAH Biography
Denzel WashingtonAAH Biography
Denzel Washington: His Films and CareerAAH Biography
Diana Ross: An Unauthorized BiographyAAH Biography
Doc: The Rise and Rise of Julius ErvingAAH Biography
Dorothy Dandridge: A BiographyAAH Biography
Du Bois and His RivalsAAH Biography
E. Franklin FrazierAAH Biography
E. Franklin Frazier ReconsideredAAH Biography
Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and EqualityAAH Biography
Eldridge Cleaver AAH Biography
Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music AAH Biography
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom MovementAAH Biography
Ella Baker: Freedom BoundAAH Biography
Essays Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and PoetryAAH Biography
Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs SloweAAH Biography
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou HamerAAH Biography
For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit AAH Biography
Forty Years in Politics: The Story of Ben PelhamAAH Biography
Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography AAH Biography
Frederick Douglass AAH Biography
Frederick Douglass: A BiographyAAH Biography
Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays AAH Biography
Frederick Douglass: Reformer and StatesmanAAH Biography
Frederick Douglass: Reformer and StatesmanAAH Biography
Frederick L. McGhee, a Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912 AAH Biography
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding FathersAAH Biography
From Slave to Priest: A Biography of Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854-1897), The First Black Priest of the United StatesAAH Biography
From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915 AAH Biography
General Roscoe Robinson, Jr.: He Overcame the Hurdle of Segregation to Become the Army's First Black GeneralAAH Biography
George Coleman Poage: The La Crosse, Wisconsin Years AAH Biography
George Russell: The Story of an American ComposerAAH Biography
George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black ConservativeAAH Biography
George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol AAH Biography
George Washington Williams: A Biography AAH Biography
Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth AAH Biography
Got To Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel AAH Biography
Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change AAH Biography
Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie AAH Biography
Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915 AAH Biography
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