African Americans -- Biography
Label
African Americans -- Biography
Name
African Americans
Focus
Sub focus
Actions
Incoming Resources
- The autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley, Malcolm X and Alex Haley ; read by Laurence Fishburne
- A golden voice, how faith, hard work and humility brought me from the streets to salvation, Ted Williams ; with Bret Witter
- Assata, an autobiography, Assata Shakur ; forewords by Angela Y. Davis and Lennox S. Hinds
- Prophet of rage, a life of Louis Farrakhan and his nation, Arthur J. Magida
- African American almanac, 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence, Lean'tin Bracks
- Surprising narrative, Olaudah Equiano and the beginnings of Black autobiography, Angelo Costanzo
- Incognegro, a memoir of exile & apartheid, Frank B. Wilderson, III
- Speak of me as I am, produced & directed by Rachel Hermer
- Steel drivin' man, John Henry, the untold story of an American legend, Scott Reynolds Nelson
- Bearing the cross, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow
- Ralph Bunche, model Negro or American other?, Charles P. Henry
- The butler, a witness to history, Wil Haygood
- The strange career of William Ellis, the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire, Karl Jacoby
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup
- Dreams from my father, [written and] read by Barack Obama
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Blood brothers, the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Roots, the saga of an American family, Alex Haley with a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley On the Writing of Roots
- Sorrow's kitchen, the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston, Mary E. Lyons
- A Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica, the narrative of Nancy Prince, introduction by Ronald G. Walters
- Freedom facts and firsts, 400 years of the African American civil rights experience, Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn
- Was Huck Black?, Mark Twain and African-American voices, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- The fire next time, James Baldwin
- Romare Bearden, collage of memories, by Jan Greenberg
- Stories and spirituals of the negro slave, by William C. Emerson, M.D
- Bone black, memories of girlhood, Bell Hooks
- Paul Robeson, by Martin Bauml Duberman
- Up from slavery, Booker T. Washington
- Inside separate worlds, life stories of young blacks, Jews, and Latinos, edited by David Schoem
- Martin Luther King, Jr, Nigel Hunter ; illustrations by Richard Hook
- No way but this, in search of Paul Robeson, Jeff Sparrow
- The nine muses, Seven songs for Malcolm X ; The last angel of history, directed by John Akomfrah ; produced by Lina Gopaul and David Lawson
- Talking to Faith Ringgold, by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman & Nancy Roucher
- Young Martin Luther King, Jr, "I have a dream", by Joanne Mattern ; illustrated by Allan Eitzen
- Saved for a purpose, a journey from private virtues to public values, James A. Joseph
- The Farrakhan factor, African-American writers on leadership, nationhood, and minister Louis Farrakhan, edited by Amy Alexander
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners, directed by Shola Lynch
- Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- Alvin Ailey, Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- Negro with a hat, the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey and his dream of mother Africa, Colin Grant
- W.E.B. DuBois--biography of a race, 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis
- African American women scientists and inventors, Otha Richard Sullivan
- The autobiography of Malcolm X, with the assistance of Alex Haley ; with an introduction by Gary Younge
- African American lives, written by Henry Louis Gates, 2
- The story of Ruby Bridges, by Robert Coles ; illustrated by George Ford
- Booker T. Washington, the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901, [by] Louis R. Harlan
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; introduction by Eric Ashley Hairston
- Makes me wanna holler, a young Black man in America, Nathan McCall
- Martin Luther King, Jr, apostle of militant nonviolence, James A. Colaiaco
Outgoing Resources
- Focus1
- Sub focus1