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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry....
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Black Boy
Black Boy (1945) is an autobiography by Richard Wright. Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South. It is about the struggles that many of his race had to go through to...
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- 1945
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking)...
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.
This book won the National...
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- 1978
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ISBN 0-345-35068-5) was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965, as told to him through conversations with Malcolm conducted shortly before Malcolm X's death (and with an epilogue after it), and published in 1965....
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.
The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on...
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- 1903
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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993.
Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933, during the height of the Great Depression. His father was a sharecropper on the River Lake Plantation in Oscar, Louisiana which meant that...
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- 1993
An American Dilemma
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by The Carnegie Foundation. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American,...
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time is a book by James Baldwin. It contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation", and "Down At The Cross - Letter from a Region of My Mind". The first of these is...
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- 1963
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Bud, Not Buddy
Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book is the winner of the 2000 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award that is given in recognition of...
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- 1999
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The Slave Dancer
The Slave Dancer is a children's book written by Paula Fox and published in 1973. It tells the story of a boy who witnessed first-hand the savagery of the African slave trade. The book not only includes a historical account, but it also touches upon...
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- Nov 1973
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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son is a non-fiction book by James Baldwin. It was Baldwin's first non-fiction book, and was published in 1955. The volume collects ten of Baldwin's essays, which had previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's Magazine,...
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- 1955
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) is an autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It tells about the author's coming of age amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. The book has frequently appeared on banned book...
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Whylah Falls
Whylah Falls is a long narrative poem (or "verse novel") by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990.
As with much of Clarke's work, the poem is inspired by the history and culture of the Black Canadian community in Nova Scotia, which...
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his...
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- 1995
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- 1995
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M. C. Higgins, the Great
M. C. Higgins, the Great is a book by Virginia Hamilton that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1975. It also won the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the only book to do that. It is a...
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- 1975
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
Amos Fortune, Free Man is a novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951. It is about a young African boy who was supposed to be prince, but when people come and attack his tribe, he is...
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- 1950
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Monster
Monster is a young adult drama novel by American author Walter Dean Myers and was published by Harpercollins in 1999. It was nominated for the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2000, and was...
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- 1999
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- Apr 21, 1999
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- 158233
The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day is a popular children's book by award-winning children's author Ezra Jack Keats.
The book received the prestigious Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children in 1963. It features a little boy named Peter...
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To Be a Slave
To Be A Slave is a children's novel by Julius Lester, illustrated by Tom Feelings. The book received the Newbery Honor medal in 1969. It explores what it was like to be a slave.
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No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street is a non-fiction book by James Baldwin. It was Baldwin's third non-fiction book, and was published in 1972.
The essays deal with the Algerian war and Albert Camus's take on it, Francisco Franco, McCarthyism, Martin Luther King...
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- 1972
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Race Matters
Race Matters is a 1994 social sciences book, authored by Cornel West. The book was first published on March 29, 1994 in the English language by Vintage Books. The book analyses moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United...
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- 1994
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The Children
The Children is a book by David Halberstam.
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- 1998
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Sweat
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A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E.
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Sweet, Sweet Memory
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The other side
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Daddy calls me man
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Wind Flyers
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We speak your names
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Arilla Sun Down
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Zeely
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The well
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Song of the trees
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Eyeing the North Star
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Taking liberty
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