Autobiographical Books about Black History

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48 books

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Offbeat

Humour

Disturbing

Women's fiction

Jewish fiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Similar Novels 94%

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Similar Novels 90%

Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson

Similar Novels 92%

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Similar Novels 88%

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

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Black Boy
Richard Wright

Similar Novels 92%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs

Similar Novels 82%

Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter
Josephine Brown

Similar Novels 40%

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
Josiah Henson

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Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama

Similar Novels 77%

Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Similar Novels 90%

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur

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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin

Similar Novels 80%

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson

Similar Novels 86%

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde

Similar Novels 86%

Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington

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My larger education
Booker T. Washington

Similar Novels 86%

Tuskegee & Its People
Booker T. Washington

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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
Bridgett M. Davis

Similar Novels 92%

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