African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- Raggin', a story about Scott Joplin, by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell
- The miter fits just fine, a story about the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, suffragan bishop, Diocese of Massachusetts, by Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones
- King, pilgrimage to the mountaintop, Harvard Sitkoff
- Target zero, a life in writing, Eldridge Cleaver ; edited by Kathleen Cleaver ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; afterword by Cecil Brown
- Sojourner Truth, by Laura Spinale
- Malcolm X, by Theresa Crushshon
- James Van DerZee, the picture-takin' man, by Jim Haskins ; illustrated with Van Der Zee photos
- Colin Powell, four-star general, by Elaine Landau
- Martin Luther King, Jr., leader for civil rights, Michael A. Schuman
- Historical icons, American Institute for Education, Inc. ; producer, Scott Harris
- Dr. Charles Drew, medical pioneer, by Susan Whitehurst
- W.E.B. Du Bois, the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis
- Paul Robeson, by Martin Bauml Duberman
- Jesse Owens, track and field legend, Judith Pinkerton Josephson
- Up from slavery, Booker T. Washington
- Muhammad Ali, the greatest, Jason Hook
- Sojourner Truth, equal rights advocate = defensora de los derechos civiles, Kathleen Collins ; traducción al español, Eida de la Vega
- The slaves' war, the Civil War in the words of former slaves, Andrew Ward
- Roots of resistance, the nonviolent ethic of Martin Luther King, Jr., William D. Watley
- Duke Ellington, James Lincoln Collier
- Scottie Pippen, reluctant superstar, Robert Schnakenberg
- Tyler Perry, film maker, business entrepreneur, entertainment mogul : the unauthorized story, Azure Entertainment presents ; Ray Newman, producer ; Anthony Douglas, producer ; Theron C. Kal, writer, director
- Africa to America, from the Middle Passage through the 1930s, edited by Jeff Wallenfeldt, Manager, Geography and History
- Dare to dream, Coretta Scott King and the civil rights movement, by Angela Shelf Medearis ; illustrated by Anna Rich
- Hank Aaron, home run king, Jacob Margolies
- This side of glory, the autobiography of David Hilliard and the story of the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard and Lewis Cole
- Deion Sanders, prime time player, Stew Thornley
- Great African Americans in entertainment, Pat Rediger
- Looking for Farrakhan, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and voice of justice, Catherine Scheader
- Crispus Attucks, Don McLeese
- Phillis Wheatley, she loved words, Sneed B. Collard III
- I shook up the world, Maryum "May May" Ali ; illustrated by Patrick Johnson
- Militant mediator, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Dennis C. Dickerson
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, by Grace Hansen
- African American quilting, the warmth of tradition, Sule Greg C. Wilson
- Stitching stars, the story quilts of Harriet Powers, Mary E. Lyons
- Bursting bonds, the autobiography of a "new Negro", by William Pickens ; edited by William L. Andrews
- Famous Negro Americans, stories of twenty-three,, by John T. King and Marcet H. King
- Martin Luther King Jr., Josh Gregory
- Maya Angelou, L. Patricia Kite
- Thurgood Marshall, a photo-illustrated biography, by Karen Bush Gibson
- Arthur Ashe, Caroline Lazo
- Carter G. Woodson, the man who put "Black" in American history, by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson ; illustrated by Melanie Reim
- Mary McLeod Bethune, by Amy Robin Jones
- Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American poet, by Deborah Kent
- Angela Davis an autobiography
- Eddie Murphy, actor, Hal Marcovitz
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, champion athlete, Geri Harrington
- Jimi Hendrix, Sean Piccoli
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