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This group is for avid readers of non-fictional and fictional works related to black history and its hero(ine)s.

Category: Politics & History | Started July 2007

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Sugar

by Bernice L. McFadden

Diary of a Stalker

by Electa Rome Parks

In the Land of Cotton

by Martha A Taylor

The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II

The Great Divide Between Blacks & Whites

by Jeanette Davis

Black Survival in White America: From Past History to the Next Century

by Jeanette Davis-Adeshote?

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition

by James H. Jones

The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa, 1875-1910

by Bernard Magubane

Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

by Olaudah Equiano

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

by Marcus Garvey

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson

Paul Robeson

by Ron Ramdin

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Clayborne (Editor) Carson

The growth of African civilization: A history of West Africa 1000-1800

by Basil Davidson

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

by Fred McKissack

On Trial for My Country (African Writers Ser.)

by Stanlake Samkange

A Long Walk to Freedom

by Nelson Mandela

Path of Blood

by Peter Becker

The Souls of Black Folks (Enriched Classics)

by W. E. B. Du Bois

The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

by Cheikh Anta Diop

Unforgivable Blackness : The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Vintage)

by Geoffrey C. Ward

Shaka Zulu;: The rise of the Zulu Empire

by E. A Ritter

Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.

by Chancellor Williams

The Audacity of Hope

by Barack Obama

Ghosts of Manila : the fateful blood feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier

by Mark Kram

Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

by Ronin Ro

Voodoo Season

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Douglass' Women

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Magic City: A Novel

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Yellow Moon: A Novel

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Corregidora (Five Star)

by Gayl Jones

Unconfessed

by Yvette Christianse?

Sweetsmoke

by David Fuller

Blood on the Leaves

by Jeff Stetson

Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves

by Gregory A. Freeman

Miracle at St. Anna

by James McBride

I Do

by Doris Trueheart

Standing at the Scratch Line: A Novel (Strivers Row)

by Guy Johnson

Sapphire's Grave

by Hilda Gurley-Highgate

My Jim: A Novel

by Nancy Rawles

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Scottsboro: A Novel

by Ellen Feldman

Incognegro

by Mat Johnson, Warren Pleece

Stand the Storm: A Novel

by Breena Clarke

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History

Memories of the Little Elephant

by Nehprii Amenii

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson

Race, Religion & Racism, Vol. 1: A Bold Encounter With Division in the Church

by D.D. Frederick K.C. Price

Song Yet Sung

by James McBride

La audacia de la esperanza: Reflexiones sobre cómo restaurar el sueño americano (Vintage Espanol)

by Barack Obama

Just a Season

by John, T. Wills

Heaven of Drums (Lannan Translation Selection (Curbstone Press))

by Ana Gloria Moya

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

by William C. Rhoden

Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh

by Darryl Littleton

The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball

by John Taylor

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson

Soul Catcher

by Michael C. White

Not With Silver

by Simi Bedford

Can These Bones Live?

by Joshua McClure

George and Rue: A Novel

by George Elliott Clarke

Ancestor Stones: A Novel

by Aminatta Forna

Them

by Nathan McCall

The History of Jazz

by Ted Gioia

Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singers

by Francis Davis

Blackbirds: Volume 1

by Andre Coleman

Let Us March On! Selected Civil Rights Photographs of Ernest C. Withers, 1955-1968

by Michele Furst, Ronald W. Bailey, Ernest C. Withers

Pictures Tell the Story : Ernest C. Withers Reflections in History

by Daniel Wolff, Ernest C. Withers

The Memphis Blues Again: Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs

by Daniel Wolff, Ernest C. Withers

Negro League Baseball

by Ernest C. Withers

The Saga of Black Navy Veterans of World War II

by James S. Peters

When the Nation Was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II

by Martha S. Putney

Cion: A Novel

by Zakes Mda, Ceridwen Dovey

Red River

by Lalita Tademy

Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction)

by Barry Unsworth

Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography

by Donald Bogle

Roots

by Alex Haley

Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

by Lawrence Hill

A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters

by John Kisch

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Anita J. Aboulafia, Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Native Son / Black Boy

by Richard Wright, Richard Bucci

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

by Richard Wright

Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith before and after Malcolm X

by Russell John Rickford

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