African American History The Teacher's Bookshelf (nonfiction)

1.
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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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present 4.29 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro 4.51 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen
Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen 4.48 avg rating — 99 ratings
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My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South
My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South 4.47 avg rating — 295 ratings
7.
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School 4.12 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton
Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Afro American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
Afro American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution 3.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Checkered Fences
Checkered Fences 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Malcolm X: In His Own Words
Malcolm X: In His Own Words 4.46 avg rating — 98 ratings
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation 4.05 avg rating — 375 ratings
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We Are Our Ancestors' Keepers
We Are Our Ancestors' Keepers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,861 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,675 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,139 ratings
19.
Great Negroes: Past and Present: Volume One (1)
Great Negroes: Past and Present: Volume One (1) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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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Almanac African American Heritage: Chronicle
Almanac African American Heritage: Chronicle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
22.
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
24.
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Mis-Education of the Negro 4.49 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,516 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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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Lessons from Little Rock
Lessons from Little Rock 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"
The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens" 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created 4.14 avg rating — 405 ratings
30.
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 — 7,988 ratings
31.
The Bondwoman's Narrative
The Bondwoman's Narrative 3.91 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
32.
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
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 New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,058 ratings
34.
From Superman to Man
From Superman to Man 4.58 avg rating — 432 ratings