Black Women: Biography, Autobiography, Personal Essays, and Memoir (nonfiction)
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My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
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4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
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Pauli Murray
4.60 avg rating — 537 ratings 209. 
At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England 3.73 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
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Sheyann Webb
4.34 avg rating — 122 ratings 
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
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Alice Walker
4.21 avg rating — 429 ratings 
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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4.58 avg rating — 13,958 ratings 214. 
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
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Rachel Devlin
4.10 avg rating — 241 ratings 220. 
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Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings
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Shirley Chisholm
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 224. 
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson 4.04 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities 4.40 avg rating — 99 ratings
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In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement 4.54 avg rating — 416 ratings
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A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
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Juanita Tolliver
4.33 avg rating — 96 ratings 230. 
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
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Camille T. Dungy
4.21 avg rating — 495 ratings 
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The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
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Diahann Carroll
3.88 avg rating — 577 ratings 
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 237. 
Black Girl, White School: Thriving, Surviving and No, You Can't Touch My Hair 4.57 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker
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Carolyn J. Brown
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings 241. 
Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
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Gary L. Ford
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Gayle Wald
4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings 245. 
Wounded in the House of God: with the Audacity to Survive really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
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Julie Dash
4.37 avg rating — 213 ratings 
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Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World
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Wangari Maathai
4.10 avg rating — 235 ratings 
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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
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Wangari Maathai
3.85 avg rating — 247 ratings 
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Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
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Antoinette Tuff
4.19 avg rating — 299 ratings 
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Zero to Breakthrough: The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter 3.67 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
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Rosa Parks
4.07 avg rating — 266 ratings 
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World Essays and Selected Documents 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
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Mary Prince
3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings 
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Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Steal Away Home: One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South 3.63 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch -- The Awakening of Diamond and Silk 4.32 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
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Yuval Taylor
3.77 avg rating — 599 ratings 274. 
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
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Kathy Barnette
3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings 274. 
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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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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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Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform
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Debbie Hines
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 296. 
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America 3.77 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Uché Blackstock
4.44 avg rating — 4,507 ratings 
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Bess Lomax Hawes
4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings