Subject: African Americans › Biography

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Books under this subject

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (4,370 copies)
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (3,680 copies)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (3,151 copies)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (2,417 copies)
• Roots by Alex Haley (2,116 copies)
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (874 copies)
• Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (562 copies)
• Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany (521 copies)
• The Story Of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles (477 copies)
• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (460 copies)
• Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown (378 copies)
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. (329 copies)
• A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Picture Book… by David A. Adler (321 copies)
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (309 copies)
• Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin (274 copies)
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney (259 copies)
• Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.) by Assata Shakur (254 copies)
• Hemingses of Monticello, The by Annette Gordon-Reed (253 copies)
• Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. (Scholastic… by Jean Marzollo (252 copies)
• Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall (238 copies)
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (211 copies)
• My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the… by Christine King Farris (208 copies)
• W.E.B. DuBois. Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David L. Lewis (199 copies)
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis (185 copies)
• A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David A. Adler (179 copies)
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the… by David J. Garrow (178 copies)
• Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman (Scholastic Biography) by Pat McKissack (172 copies)
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Bone Black) by bell hooks (168 copies)
• Let the Trumpet Sound: Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., The by Stephen B. Oates (166 copies)
• Nigger : An Autobiography by Dick Gregory (163 copies)
• Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull (162 copies)
• Teammates (A Voyager/Hbj Book) by Peter Golenbock (162 copies)
• Bigmama's by Donald Crews (156 copies)
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (139 copies)
• Great Black Heroes: Five Brave Explorers (level 4) (Hello… by Wade Hudson (134 copies)
• The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the… by Russell Freedman (132 copies)
• Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow (128 copies)
• Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely (127 copies)
• Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (Wounds of Passion) by bell hooks (122 copies)
• If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold (121 copies)
• A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler (117 copies)
• Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou (112 copies)
• Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes (111 copies)
• Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman (110 copies)
• Frederick Douglass Fights For Freedom by Margaret Davidson (107 copies)
• A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including… by David W. Blight (106 copies)
• Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney (106 copies)
• Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black… by Wallace Terry (105 copies)
• Harriet Tubman : The Road to Freedom (Easy Biographies) by Rae Bains (103 copies)
• Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (102 copies)

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