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1	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this by Barack Obama add to wishlist The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hope in the Unseen more books like this by Ron Suskind add to wishlist As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.16! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family more books like this by Annette Gordon-Reed add to wishlist This epic work tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America had been systematically expunged from history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's ... see all copies from $12.42! new only from $12.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Strength in What Remains more books like this by Tracy Kidder add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classics "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and "The Soul of a New Machine" returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to turn his life into something truly remarkable. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Autobiography of Malcolm X more books like this by Malcolm X add to wishlist Malcolm X was a controversial figure in the early sixties as one of the most forceful and eloquent spokesmen for African-Americans. In his writings and public appearances he addressed the issues of Black pride, separatism (a position he eventually renounced), and self-esteem. In the years prior to his assassination in 1965, he granted Alex Haley, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself more books like this by Frederick Douglass add to wishlist In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment more books like this by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston add to wishlist Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream more books like this by Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. George Jenkins, Dr. Rameck Hunt add to wishlist In this memoir of success, three men tell how, by hanging together, they got themselves out of Newark, into a program for minority youth, and through medical school. They supported each other and eventually realized their dreams of careers in medicine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother more books like this by James McBride add to wishlist A young black man's search to uncover his white mother's past and his own identity. Born in Poland, the daughter of a rabbi, James McBride's mother grew up in the Southern United States, ran away to Harlem, married a black man and founded a Baptist church, and then proceeded to put 12 children through college. McBride examines her life, his own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Incidents in the life of a slave girl more books like this by Harriet Jacobs add to wishlist This classic memoir of slave life, written by a highly-literate North Carolina slave, was first published at the beginning of the Civil War when Jacobs had escaped to the North and begun campaigning for abolition. Her narrative focused especially clearly on the ways that slavery degraded women through sexual abuse and the separation of mothers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America more books like this by Nathan McCall add to wishlist An eloquent memoir, by a "Washington Post" reporter, that tells of his passage from the prison yards and streets to one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa more books like this by Jeanette Winter add to wishlist As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something - and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Letter to My Daughter more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist Down-to-earth, real, and inspiring, this volume of distilled wisdom from beloved author and playwright Maya Angelou contains essays that invite one along on an inspirational journey that explores ideas garnered from a life well lived. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $8.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass more books like this by Frederick Douglass add to wishlist Based on the first edition of this autobiography in 1845, this text concerns the life of the great slave and upholder of emancipation, Frederick Douglass. In addition to its impact on the anti-slave movement of the time, the fugitive-slave narrative won recognition for its literary style. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Black Like Me more books like this by John Howard Griffin add to wishlist In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South," as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Slaves in the Family more books like this by Edward Ball add to wishlist A personal history of slavery in the South, written by a descendant of South Carolina slaveowners who traced the histories of the slave families owned by his ancestors and searched out their descendants. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The strange career of Jim Crow more books like this by C. Vann Woodward add to wishlist This study of segregation was first published in 1955 and has long been considered a classic work in the history of the American South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.40! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Life is So Good more books like this by George Dawson, Richard Glaubman add to wishlist This memoir recalls the long, difficult life of a man who insisted on seeing things optimistically, as his title attests. 101 at the time of the book's publication, George Dawson had been reading for only three years when he set his story down, recalling a childhood in a viciously segregated town in Texas and a life spent butting up against the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir more books like this by E Lynn Harris add to wishlist African-American writer Harris writes about his life, from his abused childhood to his incarnation as a best-seller. In between were his discovery of his homosexuality, a brief stint working in a brothel, the search for his real father, and a serious suicide attempt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.04! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Dust Tracks on a Road more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston add to wishlist Zorah Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography is a lively account of her rich and extraordinary life, from her impoverished childhood in rural Flora to her position as one of the major figures in the Harlem Renaissance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.07! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Up from Slavery more books like this by Booker T Washington add to wishlist Long considered one of the most inspiring autobiographies in American literature, UP FROM SLAVERY chronicles the author's beginnings as a slave to his success as an educator, writer, and speaker. Noted for his leadership of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington promoted economic progress through vocational education. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave more books like this by Frederick Douglass add to wishlist 'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.' Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	No Disrespect more books like this by Sister Souljah add to wishlist A sexual memoir from hip-hop artist Sister Souljah, who came to the nation's attention during the 1992 Presidential campaign after her heated discussion with Bill Clinton. "No Disrespect" describes the tense relationships between African-American women and men, as well as the Black church, drug dealers, guns, rappers, lesbians, adultery, and Black ... see all copies from $4.32! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Mao's Last Dancer more books like this by Li Cunxin add to wishlist The international bestselling memoir of a world-renowned artist's defection from China to America. see all copies from $4.25! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement more books like this by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso add to wishlist In his autobiography, John Lewis looks back at his life and his role in the American civil rights movement. He describes his childhood in rural Alabama and his memories of the struggle: from the demonstrations in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham to the Freedom Rides, the march on Washington, and the death of the movement's most charismatic leader ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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