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Black History Month Biographies

February 1, 2020 | SuzyQ
Death of a king : the real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final year by Tavis Smiley
Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith by Peter J Hammer
Thurgood Marshall : American revolutionary by Juan Williams
Harriet Jacobs : a life by Jean Fagan Yellin
My life, my love, my legacy by Coretta Scott King
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Up from history : the life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell
Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr by Michael Vinson Williams
Barbara Jordan : American hero by Mary Beth Rogers
One blood : the death and resurrection of Charles R. Drew by Spencie Love
Jackie Robinson : an integrated life by J. Christopher Schutz
Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage by Vincent Carretta
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Frederick Douglass
To keep the waters troubled : the life of Ida B. Wells by Linda McMurry Edwards
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah
A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten by Julie Winch
Elgin Baylor : the man who changed basketball by Bijan C Bayne
On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Perry Bundles
Traveling soul : the life of Curtis Mayfield by Todd Mayfield
Jocelyn Elders, M.D. : from sharecropper's daughter to surgeon general of the United States of America by M. Joycelyn Elders
Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man by Vincent Carretta
Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup
Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir by Charles M. Blow
Stokely : a life by Peniel E Joseph
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom by David W Blight
Arthur Ashe : a life by Raymond Arsenault
Jim Brown : last man standing by Dave Zirin
Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry by 1972- Imani Perry
The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke by 1950- Jeffrey C. Stewart
Becoming by 1964- Michelle Obama
How sweet it is : a songwriter's reflections on music, Motown and the mystery of the muse by Lamont Dozier
Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri Greenidge
James Baldwin : living in fire by 1959- Bill Mullen
All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy by Philip A Keith
Think black : a memoir by Clyde W Ford
Odetta : a life in music and protest by Ian Zack