Recs if you like Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching...

Books describing the horrors of Jim Crow and the bravery of those standing against it. Recommendations welcome!

third-person memoirs (à la Imani Perry) that illuminate so much more than just one person

Like actors on actors... but with writers... who probably never met each other. Anyway! Here's some biographical works on novelists, poets, journalists, etc.