Books about African American History

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We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates

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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Taylor Branch

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Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book
Thomas Affleck

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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook
Toni Tipton-Martin

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Vashti Harrison

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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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Bad News for Outlaws
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America
Venture Smith

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The People Could Fly
Virginia Hamilton

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Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History
Von Hardesty

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Black Reconstruction
W. E. B. Du Bois

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The Blacker the Berry
Wallace Thurman

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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
Wesley Lowery

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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Wil Haygood

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Six Women's Slave Narratives
William L Andrews

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Still's Underground Rail Road Records: With a Life of the Author...
William Still

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The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
William Wells Brown

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Visiting Langston
Willie Perdomo

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston

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