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Full Battle Rattle: My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History

By Changiz Lahidji, Ralph Pezzullo

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

By Carlos Eire (Yale University)

Truman of St. Helens: The man and his mountain

By shirley-rosen

Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

By Maisie J. Meyer, Irene Eber

Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?

By James H. Cone

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family

By K.Connie Kang

Escape from Alcatraz

By J.Campbell Bruce

Kaffir Boy: Growing Out of Apartheid

By Mark Mathabane

Haunted by Christ

By Richard Harries

The Lance and the Shield

By Robert M Utley

The Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks Series)

By O'Crohan, Tomás, Flower, Robin

Up from Slavery

By Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews (Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, University of Kansas)

Why We Can't Wait

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson

Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle Between Blacks and Whites

By Paul L. Wachtel

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By David Remnick, Salman Rushdie, Stuart Wilson

Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm, X

The Myth of Black Progress

By Alphonso Pinkney

The Cornel West Reader

By Cornel West

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

By Ron Stallworth

Future of Nostalgia

By Boym, Svetlana

A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten Holocaust'

By Otto Rosenberg

The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

By olaudah equiano

The Life and Times Of Frederick Douglass

By Frederick Douglass

Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor's Story

By IKE. ANYA

The Sixteenth Round. From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472.

By Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

A Day in Our Life

By Seán O'Crohan, Seán Ó Criomhthain

No Easy Walk to Freedom (Heinemann African Writers Series)

By Mandela, Nelson

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

By frank McCourt