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1	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this by Barack Obama When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother more books like this by James McBride 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 $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou (Read by) In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Roots more books like this by Alex Haley An historical narrative of slavery in the American South. Based upon actual researches conducted over a period of years, Haley reconstructs the events that led to the enslavement of Kunte Kinte, the "African" identified in Haley's family lore as their founding father, and his settlement on American shores. Kinte, in his own history, becomes an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Piece of Cake: A Memoir more books like this by Cupcake Brown From beloved daughter to abused foster child to prostitute and gang member, Brown took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it. Now an attorney at one of the largest firms in California, she vividly recounts her story. see all copies from $5.99! new only from $8.09! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Black Like Me more books like this by John Howard Griffin 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 $3.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Black boy more books like this by Richard Wright Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass more books like this by Frederick Douglass Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Pursuit of Happyness more books like this by Chris Gardner Gardner goes from the highs of landing an apprenticeship on Wall Street to the nadir of being homeless with a toddler in tow. Persevering even when he and his son slept in public bathrooms, this self-made millionaire never let his dire circumstances define him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story more books like this by Benjamin S Carson, Sr., M.D. Gifted Hands dose not just shed light on a ghetto youth with failing grades who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univesity Hospital at age 33. It takes readers into the operating room to watch incredibly complex, delicate, life-saving surgeries. "He is a model to all the youth of today".--Jesse Jackson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	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 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 $2.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	My American Journey more books like this by Colin L Powell, General In his enlightening and very human memoir, General Colin Powell, one of the most prominent figures in American public life, celebrates not only the rise of a great man from obscurity, but, in the General's own words, "the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers". 32 pages of photos. Barbara Walters interview scheduled for September. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Hope in the Unseen more books like this by Ron Suskind 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 $3.62! new only from $8.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member more books like this by Sanyika Shakur (Use Kody Scott) A remarkable book on the African American experience. Written from prison, where Scott has spent half of his 29 years, this riveting account tells of the life of one of the leaders of a Los Angeles gang called the Crips. Scott renders the despair and decay of America's inner cities in an astonishing document that gives voice to a world and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Incidents in the life of a slave girl more books like this by Harriet A Jacobs 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
16 view cover	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years more books like this by Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth In this compelling oral history, the Delany sisters recall their formative years, growing up as members of a distinguished middle-class black family in Raleigh, North Carolina, and their years in New York, where Bessie became a noted dentist in the Harlem community, and Sadie was the first African-American teacher of science employed by the New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr more books like this by Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson, Ph.D. (Editor) Destined to become a classic, this powerful and inspirational autobiography of America's greatest civil rights leader calls upon Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including Dr. King's previously unpublished writings, public and private interviews, audio and video recordings, and personal correspondence. see all copies from $3.23! new only from $7.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Heart of a Woman more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou HEART OF A WOMEN, the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, describes the beginning of her writing career and the years when she first became politically active, relating encounters with the Harlem Writers Guild and Martin Luther King, Jr. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave more books like this by Frederick Douglass Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	My Grandfather's Son more books like this by Clarence Thomas Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, this book relates the life story of one of Americas most remarkable and constroversial leaders--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas--in his own words. 16-page photo insert. see all copies from $5.49! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Coming of Age in Mississippi more books like this by Anne Moody Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--Senator Edward Kennedy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.66! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself more books like this by Frederick Douglass Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou In 24 brief essays, Maya Angelou gives her views on racial tolerance and spirituality, illustrated candidly with her own life experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Manchild in the Promised Land more books like this by Claude Brown The classic autobiography of growing up in Harlem in the fifties. From a life of mischief and encounters with gangs, drug pushers, and the police, Claude Brown eventually leaves Harlem for law school. The Harlem setting and the many characters in his family and neighborhood are evoked with frankness, beauty and love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America more books like this by Nathan McCall 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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