Black American History by Black American Authors

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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
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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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,138 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.34 avg rating — 23,720 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,005 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Malcom X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,202 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,873 ratings
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A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating — 3,589 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself 4.17 avg rating — 56,860 ratings
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Black Abolitionists
Black Abolitionists 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings
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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine 4.26 avg rating — 784 ratings
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From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915
From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History 4.63 avg rating — 795 ratings
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At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
by: Hana Ali
4.18 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,173 ratings
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America 4.44 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,419 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 4.44 avg rating — 853 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,288 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement 4.04 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback 4.33 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison 4.11 avg rating — 151 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Boley, a Negro Town in the West (1908)
Boley, a Negro Town in the West (1908) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,286 ratings
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The Covenant In Action
The Covenant In Action 4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating — 7,987 ratings
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Hinsonville's Heroes: Black Civil War Soldiers of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Civil War Series)
Hinsonville's Heroes: Black Civil War Soldiers of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Civil War Series) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later
The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later 3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Reconstruction after the Civil War
Reconstruction after the Civil War 3.94 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery 4.20 avg rating — 85 ratings
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My Life, My Love, My Legacy 4.22 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets 4.25 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks: My Story 4.18 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Mirror to America
Mirror to America 4.21 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War
The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation 4.12 avg rating — 140 ratings
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From The Virginia Plantation To The National Capitol: Or The First And Only Negro Representative In Congress From The Old Dominion (1894)
From The Virginia Plantation To The National Capitol: Or The First And Only Negro Representative In Congress From The Old Dominion (1894) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans 4.32 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World War
Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown 3.99 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings
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Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery
The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series)
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Women's Slave Narratives
Women's Slave Narratives 3.84 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Sojourner Truth's America
Sojourner Truth's America 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,024 ratings
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Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History 4.42 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Classic Slave Narratives
The Classic Slave Narratives 4.33 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Autobiography of Nicholas Said: A Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said: A Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker 3.98 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History 4.43 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City
Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City 4.11 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Loving V. Virginia (Freedom's Promise Set 2)
Loving V. Virginia (Freedom's Promise Set 2) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga
The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum
Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond
Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies 4.05 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts
The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts 4.16 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy 4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (1)
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (1) 4.07 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North
Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
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His Eye is on the Sparrow
His Eye is on the Sparrow 4.10 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
The Music of Black Americans: A History 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings
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One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment
One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment 4.01 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America
Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 4.08 avg rating — 10,972 ratings
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Joe Louis: My Life
Joe Louis: My Life
by: Joe Louis
4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Black History of the White House
The Black History of the White House 4.16 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,310 ratings
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Jesse: The Man Who Outran Hitler
Jesse: The Man Who Outran Hitler 4.06 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Negro in the Civil War
The Negro in the Civil War 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present 4.45 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,086 ratings
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A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history
A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History 4.58 avg rating — 4,157 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop 4.05 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II
Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II 4.18 avg rating — 227 ratings
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America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 4.22 avg rating — 976 ratings
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Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist (Great African Americans Series)
George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist (Great African Americans Series) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 4.21 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World
The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World 4.34 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything
The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything 4.13 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) 3.81 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention 4.19 avg rating — 19,917 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland 4.03 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Because of You, John Lewis
Because of You, John Lewis 4.36 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings
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March: 30 Postcards to Make Change and Good Trouble
March: 30 Postcards to Make Change and Good Trouble 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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