| African American History Resources
@ Pequot Library
Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.
Biography arranged by subject’s last name.
Biography [arranged by the subject’s last name]:
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: an Autobiography. Abernathy, Ralph, 1989. 323 ABERNATHY
The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey. Ali, Muhammad, 2004. B ALI
More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali’s Life Lessons Presented through his Daughter’s Eyes. Ali, Hana, 2000. B ALI
The Greatest: My Own Story. Ali, Muhammad, 1975. B ALI
Marian Anderson: a Singer’s Journey. Keiler, Allan, 2000. B ANDERSON
My Lord, What a Morning. Anderson, Marian, 1956. B ANDERSON
A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Angelou, Maya, 2002. B ANGELOU
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for my Journey Now. Angelou, Maya, 1993. B ANGELOU
The Heart of a Woman. Angelou, Maya, 1981. B ANGELOU
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christmas. Angelou, Maya, 1976. B ANGELOU
Gather Together in My Name. Angelou, Maya, 1974. B ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou, Maya, 1969. B ANGELOU
Louis Armstrong: an Extravagant Life. Bergreen, Laurence, 1997. B ARMSTRONG
Louis Armstrong: an American Success Story. Collier, James Lincoln, 1985. B ARMSTRONG
Satchmo: my Life in New Orleans. Armstrong, Louis, 1954. 781.5 ARMSTRONG
Days of Grace: a Memoir. Ashe, Arthur, 1993. B ASHE
Josephine: the Hungry Heart. Baker, Jean-Claude, 1993. B BAKER
Josephine. Baker, Josephine and Jo Bonillon, 1976. B BAKER
James Baldwin: Artist on Fire: a Portrait. William J. Weatherby, 1989. B BALDWIN
The Prisoner’s Wife: a Memoir. Bandele, Asha, 2000. B BANDELE
My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations. Berry, Mary Frances, 2005 B BERRY
Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. Brazile, Donna, 2004. B BRAZILE
A Piece of Cake: a Memoir. Brown, Cupcake, 2006. B BROWN
The Senator and the Socialite: the True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty. Graham, Lawrence, 2006. B BRUCE and LP 929.9 BRUCE
Black Ice. Cary, Lorene, 1991. B CARY
Black in Selma: the Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Chestnut, J. L., 1990. B CHESTNUT
Eldridge Cleaver. Rout, Kathleen, 1991. B CLEAVER
Soul on Ice. Cleaver, Eldridge, 1968. B CLEAVER
A Lawyer’s Life. Cochran, Johnnie L., 2002. B COCHRAN
Dream Boogie: the Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick, Peter, 2005. B COOKE
Brother, I’m Dying. Danticat, Edwidge, 2007. B DANTICAT
In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Haygood, Wil, 2003 B DAVIS
On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie. Delany, Sarah Louise, 1997. 920 DELANY
Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (sound recording). Delany, Sarah Louise and A. Elizabeth, 1995. 920 DELANY AUDIOBOOK
Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. Delany, Sarah Louise and A. Elizabeth, 1994.
920 DELANY
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: the Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta. Pomerantz, Gary M., 1996. 920 DOBBS
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History: an Autobiography. Douglass, Frederick, 1993. 326.092 DOUGLASS
Frederick Douglass. McFeely, William S., 1991. B DOUGLASS
W.E.B. DuBois: the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Lewis, David Levering, 2000. B DUBOIS
W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race. Lewis, David Levering, 1993. B DUBOIS
W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat. Marable, Manning, 1986. B DUBOIS
W.E.B. DuBois. Moore, Jack B., 1981. B DUBOIS
Duke Ellington. Collier, James Lincoln, 1987. B ELLINGTON
Ralph Ellison: a Biography. Rampersad, Arnold, 2007. B ELLISON
Evers. Evers, Charles, 1971. B EVERS
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: a Heroes Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches. Evers, Medgar, 2005. B EVERS
For Us the Living. Evers-Williams, Myrlie, 1967. B EVERS
Finding Fish: a Memoir. Fisher, Antwone Quenton, 2001. B FISHER
True Vine: a Young Black Man’s Journey of Faith, Hope and Clarity. Fountain, John W., 2003. B FOUNTAIN
Mirror to America: the Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Franklin, John Hope, 2005.
B FRANKLIN
The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country. Gates, Henry Louis, 2000. 920 GATES
Colored People: a Memoir. Gates, Henry Louis, 1993. B GATES
Dizzy: the Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie. Maggin, Donald L., 2004. B GILLESPIE
Blind Faith: the Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway and her Son, Stevie Wonder. Love, Dennis, 2002. B HARDAWAY
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: a Memoir. Harris, E. Lynn, 2003 B HARRIS
William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure. Ware, Gilbert, 1984. B HASTIE
From Valley Forge to Freedom: a Story of a Black Patriot. Beach, E. Merrill, 1975. B HAWLEY
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Margolick, David, 2000. 782.42 MARGOLICK
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. Hooks, Bell, 1996 B HOOKS
The Hornes: an American Family. Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1986. B HORNE
Langston Hughes, Before and Beyond Harlem. Berry, Faith, 1995. B HUGHES
The Life of Langston Hughes [vol. I]: I , Too, Sing America: 1902-1941. Rampasad, Arnold, 1986. B HUGHES
The Life of Langston Hughes [vol. II]: I Dream a World.: 1941-1967. Rampasad, Arnold, 1988. B HUGHES
The Big Sea: an Autobiography. Hughes, Langston, 1940. B HUGHES
Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Boyd, Valerie, 2003. B HURSTON
Dust Tracks on a Road: an Autobiography. Hurston, Zora Neale, 1984. B HURSTON
Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color. Ione, Carole, 1991. 920 IONE
A Hope in the Unseen: an American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. Suskind, Ron, 1998. B JENNINGS
Barbara Jordan: a Self-Portrait. Jordan, Barbara and Shelby Hearon, 1979. B JORDAN
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made. Halberstam, David, 1999.
796.323 HALBERSTAM
Rebound: the Odyssey of Michael Jordan. Greene, Bob, 1995. B JORDAN
Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan. Greene, Bob, 1992. B JORDAN
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir. Jordan, Vernon E., 2001. B JORDAN
Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just. Manning, Kenneth R., 1983. B JUST
Walking with the Wind: a Memoir of the Movement. Lewis, John, 1998. B LEWIS
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences. Tushnet, Mark V., 2001. B MARSHALL
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Williams, Juan, 1998. B MARSHALL
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: the World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Rowan, Carl T., 1993.
B MARSHALL
Before His Time: the Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights Martyr. Green, Ben, 1999. B MOORE
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-up Black Woman. Nelson, Jill, 1997. B NELSON
Huey: Spirit of the Panther. Hilliard, David, 2006. B NEWTON
Dreams from My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance. Obama, Barack, 2004 B OBAMA
I Was Right on Time. O’Neil, Buck, 1996. B O’NEIL
Shaquille O’Neill: Shaq Talks Back. O’Neill, Shaquille, 2001. B ONEILL
A Hungry Heart: a Memoir. Parks, Gordon, 2005. B PARKS
Best Intentions: the Education and Killing of Edmund Perry. Anson, Robert Sam,1987. B PERRY
Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. Goudsouzian, Aram, 2004. B POITIER
Sidney Poitier: the Measure of a Man: a Spritual Autobiography. Poitier, Sidney, 2000. B POITIER
Sidney Poitier: This Life. Poitier, Sidney, 1980. B POITIER
My American Journey: an Autobiography. Powell, Colin L., 1995. B POWELL
Paul Robeson. Duberman, Martin Bauml, 1988. B ROBESON
Mr. Bojangles: the Biography of Bill Robinson. Haskins, Jim and N. R. Mitgang, 1988. B ROBINSON
Jackie Robinson: a Biography. Rampersad, Arnold, 1997. B ROBINSON
Jackie Robinson: an Intimate Portrait. Robinson, Rachel, 1996. Q B ROBINSON
I Never Had It Made. Robinson, Jackie, 1972. B ROBINSON
Breaking Barriers: a Memoir. Rowan, Carl T., 1991. B ROWAN
The Road South: a Memoir. Stewart, Shelley, 2002. 791.44 STEWART
Growing Up X. Shabazz, Ilyasah, 2002. B SHABAZZ
Betty Shabazz: a Sisterfriends’ Tribute in Words and Pictures. 1998. B SHABAZZ
Black Livingstone: a True Tale of African Adventure. Kennedy, Pagan, 2002. B SHEPPARD
The Last Train North. Taulbert, Clifton L., 1992. B TAULBERT
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. Taulbert, Clifton L., 1989. B TAULBERT
My Grandfather’s Son: a Memoir. Thomas, Clarence, 2007. B THOMAS
A Virgil Thomson Reader. Thomson, Virgil, 1981. 780 THOMSON
Virgil Thomson. Thomson, Virgil, 1966. B THOMSON
The Lives of Jean Toomer: a Hunger for Wholeness. Kerman, Cynthia Earl, 1987. B TOOMER
Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life. Lowry, Beverly, 2007. B TUBMAN
Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom. Clinton, Catherine, 2004. B TUBMAN
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Larson, Kate Clifford, 2004. B TUBMAN
Interiors: a Black Woman’s Healing – in Progress. Vanzant, Iyanla, 1995. B VANZANT
On Her Own Ground: the Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. Bundles, A’Leila Perry, 2001.
B WALKER
Up from Slavery: an Autobiography. Washington, Booker T., 1993. 370.92 WASHINGTON
Brothers and Keepers. Wideman, John Edgar, 1984. B WIDEMAN
Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black. Williams, Gregory Howard, 1995. B WILLIAMS
Training a Tiger: a Father’s Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life. Woods, Earl, 1997.
B WOODS
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius: a Portrait of the Man; a Critical Look at His Work. Walker, Margaret, 1988. B WRIGHT
Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. Gayle, Addison, 1980. B WRIGHT
Black Boy. Wright, Richard, 1945. B WRIGHT
American Hunger. Wright, Richard, 1944. B WRIGHT
Malcolm X: the Great Photographs. Davis, Thulani, 1993 Q B X
Malcolm X and His Times. Clarke, John Henrik, 1969. B X
The Last Year of Malcolm X: the Evolution of a Revolutionary. Breitman, George, 1967. B X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. X, Malcolm, 1965. B X
Upon This Rock: the Miracles of a Black Church. Freedman, Samuel G., 1993. B YOUNG
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