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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

By frank McCourt

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X

No Easy Walk to Freedom (Heinemann African Writers Series)

By Mandela, Nelson

A Day in Our Life

By Seán O'Crohan, Seán Ó Criomhthain

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

By Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor's Story

By IKE. ANYA

The Life and Times Of Frederick Douglass

By Frederick Douglass

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

By olaudah equiano

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

By Otto Rosenberg

Future of Nostalgia

By Boym, Svetlana

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

By Ron Stallworth

The Cornel West Reader

By Cornel West

The Myth of Black Progress

By Alphonso Pinkney

Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm, X

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

By David Remnick, Salman Rushdie, Stuart Wilson

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

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

By Paul L. Wachtel

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

By James H. Cone

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

The Scent of the Roses

By Mary O'Hara

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder and the Great Cover-up

By Darwin Porter

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

The Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks Series)

By O'Crohan, Tomás, Flower, Robin

The Lance and the Shield

By Robert M Utley

Haunted by Christ

By Richard Harries

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)