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African American Collection at Gordon Avenue
A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete
Arthur AsheCopies available
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Richard Wright
Ar'n't I a woman? : female slaves in the plantation South
Deborah G WhiteCopies available
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What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lerone BennettCopies available
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My bondage and my freedom
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Frederick Douglass
My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee CullenCopies available
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Somerset homecoming : recovering a lost heritage
Dorothy Spruill RedfordCopies available
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Hippocrene U.S.A. guide to historic Black South : historical sites, cultural centers, and musical happenings of the African-American South
James HaskinsCopies available
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I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
Sara Lightfoot-LawrenceCopies available
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Life on the color line : the true story of a white boy who discovered he was black
Gregory Howard WilliamsCopies available
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Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present
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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Ervin L JordanCopies available
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The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America
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Richard Lischer
Mumbo jumbo
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Ishmael Reed
Making Malcolm : the myth and meaning of Malcolm X
Michael Eric DysonCopies available
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The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present
Columbus SalleyCopies available
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One more river to cross : an African American photograph album
Walter Dean MyersCopies available
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Invisible man
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Ralph Ellison
Black hair is : the complete hair guide for today's black woman
Marilyn SingletonCopies available
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An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America
Andrew YoungCopies available
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1001 things everyone should know about African-American history
Jeffrey C StewartCopies available
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Tuskegee's heroes : featuring the aviation art of Roy LaGrone
Charlie CooperCopies available
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King of the world : Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero
David RemnickCopies available
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Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America
Ira BerlinCopies available
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Divine daughters : liberating the power and passion of women's voices
Rachel L BagbyCopies available
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The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology
Howard DodsonCopies available
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Michael Jordan speaks : lessons from the world's greatest champion
Michael JordanCopies available
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Sister days : 365 inspired moments in African American women's history
Janus AdamsCopies available
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Boys into men : raising our African American teenage sons
Nancy Boyd-FranklinCopies available
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The other side of color : African American art in the collection of Camille O. and William H. Crosby, Jr.
David C DriskellCopies available
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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974
James V HatchCopies available
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The unknown soldiers : Black American troops in World War I
Arthur E BarbeauCopies available
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The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals
James Weldon JohnsonCopies available
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I hear them calling my name : a journey through the new South
Chet FullerCopies available
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Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves
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The content of our character : a new vision of race in America
Shelby SteeleCopies available
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Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers
Joseph T GlatthaarCopies available
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Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
Mark V TushnetCopies available
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Frederick DouglassCopies available
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African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama
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The color of their skin : education and race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
Robert A PrattCopies available
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Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes
Donna Sullivan HarperCopies available
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In their footsteps : the American visions guide to African-American heritage sites
Henry ChaseCopies available
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Our family table : recipes & food memories from African-American life models
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Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
Michael K HoneyCopies available
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