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Paul Robeson
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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George Washington Williams: A Biography
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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography Buck Colbert Franklin
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Nigger
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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Coltrane: Chasin' the Trane
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John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
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Duke Ellington's America
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The Life of Langston Hughes
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The Life of Langston Hughes
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The Big Sea
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
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Indira
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Gandhi
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
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Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882–1911
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Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842–1882
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M. N. Roy
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
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Pushkin: A Biography
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Pushkin: The Man and His Age
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Pushkin: A Biography
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Melvin B. Tolson, 1898-1966: Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy (Volume 1)
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Standing Fast: The Autobiography Of Roy Wilkins
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Richard Wright: The Life and Times
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Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901
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Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Michele Obama First Lady of Fashion and Style
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas.
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Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism
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Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me
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The Heart of a Woman (Maya Angelou's Autobiography #4)
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The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America
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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
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Soul on Ice
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
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An Autobiography
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Give Me This Mountain: Life History and Selected Sermons
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Hannibal
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Black Boy
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Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Missouri Biography Series)
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I Was Right On Time
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Fire In His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner
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A Matter of Black and White: The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
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For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
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Ralph Ellison: A Biography
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
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Black Socialist Preacher
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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
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Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
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Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle For Identity
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Cleopatra: A Life
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A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader
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The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
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Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
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Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
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Frantz Fanon: A Biography
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Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance
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Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey: The First Comprehensive Biography
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Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen
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To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
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C.L.R. James: A Life
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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Frederick Douglass
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
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Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent
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Claude McKay ~ Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance, a Biography
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John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65
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Voices in the Mirror
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Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
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Up from Slavery
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Lost Prophet : The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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