African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- Game changers, the story of Venus and Serena Williams, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Having our say, the Delany sisters' first 100 years, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany ; with Amy Hill Hearth
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd
- Booker T. Washington, leader and educator, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack ; illustrated by Michael Bryant
- Black and white airmen, their true history, John Fleischman
- Racing against the odds, the story of Wendell Scott, stock car racing's African-American champion, by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric A. Velasquez
- Bigmama's, Donald Crews
- Allen Iverson, by Charles E. Schmidt, Jr
- To the mountaintop, Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968, Stewart Burns
- Up from slavery, an autobiography, Booker T. Washington
- A girl named Rosa, the true story of Rosa Parks, by Denise Lewis Patrick ; illustrated by Melissa Manwill
- Who was Coretta Scott King?, by Gail Herman ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Who is Michelle Obama?, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- George Washington Carver, scientist and teacher, by Carol Greene
- A slave no more, two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation, David W. Blight
- Talkin' about Bessie, the story of aviator Bessie Coleman, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis
- Black history, a retrospective, Cine-O-Matic, Inc
- Teammates, written by Peter Golenbock ; designed and illustrated by Paul Bacon
- Frederick Douglass, Melissa Banta
- My brother Martin, a sister remembers growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Christine King Farris ; illustrated by Chris Soentpiet
- The road to dawn, Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War, Jared A. Brock
- Coretta Scott King, David and Patricia Armentrout
- Louis Armstrong, by Adam Woog
- Who was Harriet Tubman?, by Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Nancy Harrison
- Satchel Paige, Lesa Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Simone Biles, written by Kekla Magoon ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Historical Negro biographies,, by Wilhelmena S. Robinson
- The cosmo-biography of Sun Ra, the sound of joy is enlightening, Chris Raschka
- Walter Payton, Philip Koslow ; introduction by Chuck Noll
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?, by Bonnie Bader ; illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf
- Harriet Tubman, antislavery activist, by M. W. Taylor
- The slaves' war, the Civil War in the words of former slaves, Andrew Ward
- Jackie Robinson, by Arthur Diamond
- Martin's big words, the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Bryan Collier
- Who was Jesse Owens?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Ain't nothing but a man, my quest to find the real John Henry, Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
- Langston Hughes, S.L. Berry
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; foreword by Steve McQueen ; introduction by Ira Berlin ; general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Sojourner Truth, ain't I a woman?, by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- The dragons, the giant, the women, a memoir, Wayétu Moore
- Who was Booker T. Washington?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Amos Fortune, free man, Illustrated by Nora S. Unwin
- George Washington Carver, by Charles W. Carey, Jr
- Rosa Parks, in her own words, Susan Reyburn ; with a foreword by Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress
- The Hemingses of Monticello, an American family, Annette Gordon-Reed
- A nation's hope, the story of boxing legend Joe Louis, Matt De La Pẽna ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Major Taylor, champion cyclist, by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James E. Ransome
- Roots, Alex Haley
- Malcolm X, a life of reinvention, Manning Marable
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