Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Nikki Grimes

This Is Your Time

Ruby Bridges

Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow (The American South Series)

Daniel B. Thorp

Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Jaha Nailah Avery

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

Beth Macy

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

Nick Tabor

The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"

Holly Metz

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

M.K. Asante Jr.

Malcolm X: In His Own Words

Nathan Lee

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

Carlotta Walls LaNier

My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

Howell Raines

Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen

Casey King

Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

Robin Bernstein

Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present

Nell Irvin Painter

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Charles Person

Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery

Harrison Mooney

A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past

Clyde W. Ford

The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

Wil Haygood

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

Lindsey Stewart