African-American & Black Books


Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore Best Price: $2.68 I think that this book was excellent in that it provides a foundation for finding new ways to...	My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Best Price: $0.01 A beautiful and very accessable history on the pre and post civil war period. What made it...	The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches Best Price: $8.95 I watched Myrlie Evers-Williams talk about the book and so much more on C-SPAN II, Book TV. She...	Freud's Women Best Price: $14.94 As a writer, Sigmund Freud has affected powerful views on women. No one has been so vilified,...	Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life Best Price: $50.00 Who was Ron Brown? Washington lawyer, secretary of Commerce, presidential king maker, deal...



The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976 Best Price: $17.48 Paul Robeson, Jr. has brought his father's remarkable career back to life. For those of us...	Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War Best Price: $0.90 This book shows why Melvin Claxton is the finest investigative reporter working today. He does...	Lester Young (Jazz Perspectives) Best Price: $17.06 This is a great book if you want to try to understand Prez. There are tons of transcribed solos,...	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.71 Incidents is typically viewed as an outstanding example of Black feminist resistance to slavery...	African American Poets: Lives, Works, and Sources Best Price: $41.73 Covering 46 poets from more than two centuries of African American literary history, this...



The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature [Five Volumes] : The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature: Volume I, A-C	Michael Jordan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $35.00 With the possible exceptions of boxer Muhammad Ali and baseball player Babe Ruth, no athlete has...	Certain People: America's Black Elite Best Price: $370.48 Certain People is a classic study of the black upper class in America. Researched by one of the...	Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall Best Price: $3.25 A prize-winning journalist draws upon his forty-year friendship with Marshall, as well as...	The Autobiography of Malcolm X "A great book. Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose will make it stand...

Malcolm X: As They Knew Him Best Price: $120.94 This book does a fantastic job of painting Malcolm X in the eyes of those who knew him and were...	Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero Best Price: $82.84 In her introduction, Larson says "We all believe we know Harriet Tubman" yet...	Native Sons: A Friendship that Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century: Notes of a Native Son Best Price: $5.00 James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his...	Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Influential Hip-Hop Label Best Price: $37.07 As the sister of the author and the designer of the cover for "Def Jam, Inc.," I have...	Knocking at Our Own Door Best Price: $32.99 The struggle for school integration in New York City, home to the nation's largest public...

The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930 Best Price: $75.66 This generous, representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most...	Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate Best Price: $8.86 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-71) was one of the twentieth century?s...	Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South Best Price: $59.97 As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent...	Give 'Em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago Best Price: $59.97 As either observer or participant, radio deejay and political activist Richard E. Stamz...	Bursting Bonds: The Heir of Slaves : The Autobiography of a "New Negro" (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $1.98

Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $13.94 "These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have...	Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $11.74 "... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement...	No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Best Price: $18.94 Among New Orleans' most compelling stories is that of the Sisters of the Holy Family, which...	Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor (Black Music and Expressive Culture) Best Price: $12.72 Excellent autobiography from one of the giants of Chicago soul and a giant in the world of pop...	How Sweet the Sound Best Price: $5.63 Cissy takes us on an upclose and personal journey into her life. This woman has accomplished so...

Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Best Price: $22.00 In 2003, fans and scholars of Zora Neale Hurston's work were given the invaluable...	You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks Best Price: $15.00 "A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her...	The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey Best Price: $3.75 Derricotte's fascinating discussion of her life as a light-skinned, black women in white...	Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (Black Cat Books) These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his...	A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete Best Price: $3.65 Jackie Joyner-Kersee's autobiography is everything a biography should be, well-written,...

A Love Supreme: Real Life Stories of Black (African-American) Love Best Price: $15.98 The Stovall's have capture generations of culture in this wonderful book. This book is...	Sweet Summer Best Price: $1.45 Told from the perspective of a young African-American girl as she grows to a young woman, Sweet...	Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Edition) Best Price: $3.49 The setting is the deep South in 1959. What began as a scientific research project ended up...	Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family (Plume) Best Price: $5.32 I did a research study on American Dream in America during the 20s-30s decade. I've read a...	Harriet Tubman

African-American Astronauts (Capstone Short Biographies) Briefly describes the lives and accomplishments of five African-American astronauts: Guion S....	Nelson Mandela: South Africa's Silent Voice of Protest (People of Distinction Series) Presents the life and career of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress focusing...	Nelson Mandela Best Price: $3.10 Millions of people owe their liberty to Nelson Mandela's dedication and refusal to be...	God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story Best Price: $35.00 Dr. Jill Watts has thoroughly taken the life of Father Divine and brought it to life. I knew...	The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951 Best Price: $38.94 Volume 1 of the King papers goes to 1951, when M.L. King, Jr., was 22. There are childhood...

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IX: Africa for the Africans June 1921-December 1922 Best Price: $90.93 "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black...	Willie Brown: A Biography Best Price: $15.64 Jim Richardson not only tells us the compelling story of one of California's most dominant...	A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwater Pioneer Best Price: $116.22 If among the things you have to confess you know nothing about are designing, stocking, and...	African American Art and Artists Best Price: $31.36 Samella Lewis has updated and further developed her definitive guide on African-American Art. ...	Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Best Price: $19.99 Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's...

I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home: The Life of Doc Cheatham Best Price: $159.81 This autobiography covers seven decades of jazz, taking in Cheatham's deputization for Louis...	Love In Vain: A Vision Of Robert Johnson Best Price: $159.99 When first published by Doubleday in 1983, this breathtaking work (soon to be directed by Martin...	Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 Best Price: $16.98 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African...	The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron Best Price: $14.50 In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron?s reputation has only grown in...	The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader Best Price: $14.49 After all of these years this compilation of studies by Mr. Cruse is still relevant. His...

The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader Best Price: $85.00 In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for...	Black Congressmen During Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook	About My Father's Business: The Life of Elder Michaux (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $62.95	Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery (Great American Orators) Best Price: $84.95 Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the...	I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad Best Price: $4.81 One would have to read this book several times to completely absorb its multifarious layers, and...

On Michael Jackson Best Price: $0.01 I must take issue with those reviewers who make a point of Margo Jefferson's factual errors,...	King of the World Best Price: $8.50 Remnick's multi-facted biography of Classius Cly (Muhammad Ali) places into the focus the...	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $6.47 Of all the firsthand accounts known to us as "slave narratives," Vassa's...	Growing Up Black Best Price: $1.00 Of all of the so-called minority groups in the United States, African Americans occupy a special...	Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress Best Price: $2.50 Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Best Price: $4.68 This book is one of the most important first-hand documents of American history, and certainly...	Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time Best Price: $7.13 Josephine Baker's fascinating life encompassed stardom in the Paris of the 1920s, a career...	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Best Price: $6.47 When one of the Delany sisters died a couple of years ago, I felt a personal sense of loss,...	Street Soldier Best Price: $14.74 This book is the key to every community organizer or activist. Dr Joe set such a good standerd...	Harriet Tubman

African-American Astronauts (Capstone Short Biographies) Briefly describes the lives and accomplishments of five African-American astronauts: Guion S....	Nelson Mandela: South Africa's Silent Voice of Protest (People of Distinction Series) Presents the life and career of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress focusing...	Nelson Mandela Best Price: $3.10 Millions of people owe their liberty to Nelson Mandela's dedication and refusal to be...	God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story Best Price: $35.00 Dr. Jill Watts has thoroughly taken the life of Father Divine and brought it to life. I knew...	The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951 Best Price: $38.94 Volume 1 of the King papers goes to 1951, when M.L. King, Jr., was 22. There are childhood...

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IX: Africa for the Africans June 1921-December 1922 Best Price: $90.93 "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black...	Willie Brown: A Biography Best Price: $15.64 Jim Richardson not only tells us the compelling story of one of California's most dominant...	A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwater Pioneer Best Price: $116.22 If among the things you have to confess you know nothing about are designing, stocking, and...	African American Art and Artists Best Price: $31.36 Samella Lewis has updated and further developed her definitive guide on African-American Art. ...	Black Women Scientists in the United States (Race, Gender, and Science) Best Price: $17.38 "There is very little reference material on black scientists in the US and even less that...

Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century (Religion in North America Series) Best Price: $15.99 "Sisters of the Spirit... should interest a wider audience.... These ...	Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans In his new book, Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of the...	The Mind of Oliver C. Cox (African American Intellectual Heritage Series) Best Price: $29.95 Born in Trinidad in 1901, Oliver Cromwell Cox emigrated to the United States in 1919, where he...	David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World Best Price: $11.00 David Walker was born in the late 1700s, in the newly-formed nation of the United States,...	For Race and Country: The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young Best Price: $85.00 The authors delivery and attention towards detail is awesome and exhilerating. the book should...

Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas Best Price: $18.76 'In my knowledge of Spanish Texas and the Spanish Borderlands, there is no other work that...	No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston Best Price: $17.67 In the 1990s I spent two years traveling in Europe. One day in a Hungarian history museum I hit...	No Quittin' Sense Best Price: $17.69 Brother C.C. White made a powerful impact on me and my eight children in 1977 when I read this...	Better than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007 (V Ethel Willis White Books) Best Price: $8.05 I purchased this book for my now 12-year old son. He is of Jewish, African-American, Cherokee...	Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer Best Price: $12.50 Balm in Gilead is a great story of courage, perseverance, and passion in the face of adversity. ...

Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 Best Price: $146.64 I ordered the book because I wanted a more comprehensive and expansive biography of Principal...	The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America Best Price: $39.95 Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston...	Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent Best Price: $85.00 This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of...	A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe Best Price: $27.80 In a true sense of the word pioneer James Reese Europe, brought the only true American Art form...	Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States Best Price: $10.01 Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations--Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the...

The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941) This is the most complete writing on Hughes' life. Beautifully written yet very thorough. ...	The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967) Best Price: $41.99 February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of...	Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community Best Price: $14.54 This book is difficult to read for a modern reader. It's written in 1960s style, which means...	Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Best Price: $18.23 In Black on the Block , Mary Pattillo?a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century?uses the historic...

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