Famous Black Americans: Selected Biographies and Autobiographies

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Aldred, Lisa. Thurgood Marshall. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.

Andrews, William L. ed. African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Braxton, Joanne et al. Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition 
Within A Tradition. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1989.

Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. N.Y:
Viking, 1991.

Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Fire. Waco, Texas: Ward Books, 1978.

Cronon, Edmund David. Marcus Garvey. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice- Hall, 1973.

Davis, Michael D. Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. Secaucus, N.J: Carol Pub. Group, 1992.

Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies. New York: Library of America, 1994.

Falkner, David. Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson, from Baseball to Birmingham. N.Y: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Gallen, David. Malcolm X: As They Knew Him. N.Y: Grove Press, 1965.

Giovanni, Nikki. Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on my First 
Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet. Indianapolis: Bobbs
Merrill, 1972.

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiography. N.Y: Thunder's Mouth Press, 
1986.

Lewis, David L. W.E.B. DuBois- A Biography of a Race, 1868-1909. N.Y: 
H.Holt, 1993.

Loving, Neal V. Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation. 
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Mcfeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. N.Y: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Mandela, Winnie. Part of My Soul Went With Him. New York: Norton, 1985.

Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming 
of Age in Apartheid South Africa. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. N.Y: W.W. 
Norton, 1996.

Perry, Bruce. Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America. Barrytown, N.Y: Statin Hill Press, 1991.

Powell, William J. Black Aviator: The Story of William J. Powell. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-
Hall, 1968.

Rampersand, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. N.Y: Oxford Univ. Press,
1988.

Robinson, Jackie & Duckett, Alfred. I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography.
Hopewel, N.J: Ecco Press, 1995.

Rowan, Carl Thomas. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little Brown, 1993.

Shuker, Nancy. Martin Luther King. N.Y: Chelsea House, 1985.

Strickland, William. Malcolm X, Make It Plain. N.Y: Viking, 1994.

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery; An Autobiography. N.Y: Doubleday,
1901.

Wells- Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. 
Wells. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1972.

X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. N.Y: Grove Press, 1965.