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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village 3.90 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
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Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
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Pauli Murray
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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Morgan Jerkins
4.04 avg rating — 6,731 ratings 
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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
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Jennifer Teege
3.82 avg rating — 6,241 ratings 128. 
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 128. 
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
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Morgan Jerkins
3.99 avg rating — 2,086 ratings 128. 
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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Tiya Miles
3.93 avg rating — 7,986 ratings 
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I'm On My Way But Your Foot Is On My Head: A Black Woman's Story of Getting Over Life's Hurdles
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Bertice Berry
4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
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Donald Clarke
3.84 avg rating — 365 ratings 
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Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender
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4.43 avg rating — 580 ratings 
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Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
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Kitt Shapiro
3.93 avg rating — 551 ratings 
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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
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Kathleen Krull
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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children 4.16 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement
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J. Todd Moye
4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings 154. 
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color 4.58 avg rating — 619 ratings
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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion : Seven Decades of Commentary
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Leslie Gourse
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 162. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 
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Don't Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable 4.45 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau 3.70 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Barbara Ransby
4.33 avg rating — 1,658 ratings 
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Two Colored Women in World War I France (New Intro, Annotated)
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Addie W. Hunton
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
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Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)
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Tabitha Brown
4.42 avg rating — 7,887 ratings 177. 
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The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy
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Glenn Kessler
3.23 avg rating — 31 ratings 183. 
Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment
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4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930
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3.84 avg rating — 165 ratings 189. 
Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original
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Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams
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