Books about Black History

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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson

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The Slave Community
John Wesley Blassingame

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Cane River
Lalita Tademy

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Black History: Old School Black Historians And the Hip Hop Generation
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

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Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jonah Winter

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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Joel Christian Gill

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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis

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Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter
Josephine Brown

Similar Novels 40%

Before She Was Harriet
Lesa Cline-Ransome

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Women in Black History: Stories of Courage, Faith, and Resilience
Tricia Williams Jackson

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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Kadir Nelson

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

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Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee
Louis R. Harlan

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What Is African American History?
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

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Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama

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Thurgood Marshall
Juan Williams

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We Are the Ship
Kadir Nelson

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery

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Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History
Vashti Harrison

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