Black History
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating — 568,976 ratings 
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,290 ratings 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by:
Barack Obama
3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings 8. 
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by:
Barack Obama
3.83 avg rating — 168,481 ratings 
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,220 ratings 12. 
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by:
C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,202 ratings 
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The Black Battalion 1916-1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret
by:
Calvin W. Ruck
4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings 18. 
This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
by:
Gwen Carr
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
by:
William P. Jones
3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 4,108 ratings
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
by:
Joshua Bloom
4.46 avg rating — 2,751 ratings 32. 
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
by:
Dan P. Moore
3.76 avg rating — 272 ratings 
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,508 ratings
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present 4.29 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
by:
Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings 
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 41. 
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
by:
Angela Jackson
3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings 41. 
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
by:
Mary Prince
3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings 46. 
Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
by:
Gary May
4.20 avg rating — 140 ratings 46. 
We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
by:
Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 46. 
The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
by:
Barnet Schecter
3.96 avg rating — 108 ratings 46. 
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
by:
Olaudah Equiano
3.74 avg rating — 14,419 ratings 
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 51. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
by:
Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
by:
Mark Curriden
4.26 avg rating — 418 ratings 54. 
The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"
by:
Holly Metz
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 58. 
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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
by:
William Doyle
4.27 avg rating — 237 ratings 58. 
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
by:
Nick Tabor
4.14 avg rating — 405 ratings 61. 
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 4.51 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
by:
Leonard N. Moore
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings 61. 
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by:
Tiya Miles
3.93 avg rating — 7,987 ratings 65. 
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
by:
Peniel E. Joseph
3.78 avg rating — 80 ratings 
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Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy 4.03 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
by:
Frances Gateward
4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings 70. 
Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
by:
Kent Spriggs
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 70. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,045 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History 3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America 3.95 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by:
Renée Watson
4.28 avg rating — 1,052 ratings 77. 
Till the Dark Angel Comes: Abolitionism and the Road to the Second American Revolution
by:
William S. King
2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years
by:
D.L. Hughley
3.56 avg rating — 400 ratings 81. 
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South
by:
Cheryl Finley
4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings 81. 
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro
by:
J.A. Rogers
4.51 avg rating — 477 ratings 
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
by:
James Oakes
4.02 avg rating — 193 ratings 88. 
Robert E. Lee's Orderly: A Modern Black Man's Confederate Journey
by:
Al Arnold
4.53 avg rating — 53 ratings 88. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,180 ratings
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by:
Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings 90. 
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,182 ratings
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
by:
Elliot Jaspin
4.27 avg rating — 381 ratings 
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Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Black Colleges of Atlanta, The (GA) (College History Series)
by:
Rodney Cohen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings