Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement.Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who...
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement.Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who...
$25.95
Who's Who Among African Americans
Provides biographical and career details on notable African American individuals, including leaders from sports, the arts, business, religion and other fields.
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$895.00
Uncommon Hero: The John Seagraves Story
Uncommon Hero: The John Seagraves Story involves the life of one African-American youngster, who during his rise from poverty to prosperity, encounters a heroic moment that defines his lifetime. Author David Seagraves chronicles the life of his father from John's upbringing...
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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Freeman
Originally published in 1861, Austin Steward’s memoir has long been a staple source of first-hand evidence about activism against slavery and racism by freed blacks. Long out of print, the narrative is now available with additional biographical information and a...
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Ten Stars: The African American Journey of Gary Cooper―Marine General, Diplomat, Businessman, and Politician
Ten Stars is a nonfiction narrative―part biography, part oral history―of the life story of Gary Cooper, an African American born in the depths of Jim Crow to an Alabama family that challenged the rule of segregation. The Cooper extended family, described...
$29.95
T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
In this powerful biography, David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito shine a light on the life and accomplishments of civil rights leader T. R. M. Howard. He founded black community organizations, organized civil rights rallies and boycotts, mentored Medgar...
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T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
In this powerful biography, David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito shine a light on the life and accomplishments of civil rights leader T. R. M. Howard. He founded black community organizations, organized civil rights rallies and boycotts, mentored Medgar...
$34.95
Step by Step: A Memoir of Living the American Dream
In 1944, Bertie Bowman–a poor, impressionable thirteen-year-old–heard South Carolina senator Burnet Maybank declare: “If you all ever get up to Washington, D.C., drop by and see me!” Bertie took those words to heart, and when he arrived in Washington, Senator...
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Soaring: Eleven Guiding Principles on the Path from Segregation to Success
A powerful underdog story, Soaring delivers practical leadership advice, business lessons, and tips for success mined from the real-life strategies of Lee E. Rhyant’s forty years as a corporate leader. Born into poverty in the postwar South, Rhyant was the fourth of...
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Serving Up Hope and Freedom: The Triumphant Story of James and Robert Paschal
More than sixty-five years after the end of the American Civil War, African-Americans still dealt with the debilitating poverty of sharecropping and the Depression, and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1930s. Two African-American brothers, James and...
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Serving Up Hope and Freedom: The Triumphant Story of James and Robert Paschal
More than sixty-five years after the end of the American Civil War, African-Americans still dealt with the debilitating poverty of sharecropping and the Depression, and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1930s. Two African-American brothers, James and...
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The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
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The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
The first black woman Harvard MBA tells the remarkable story of how she achieved the American dream Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman to...
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Reginald F. Lewis Before TLC Beatrice: The Young Man Before The Billion-Dollar Empire
2018 REVISED, RE-EDITED EDITION: As the man behind the unprecedented 1987 leveraged buyout of Beatrice Foods, Reginald F. Lewis established himself as a respected titan of Wall Street. His standing as the CEO of a billion dollar conglomerate while in...
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Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930(Volume 17)
Winner of the Western Writers of America “SPUR Award” and the Western Association of Women Historians “Gita Chaudhuri Prize”!Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852–1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she...
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Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem―the iconic Black neighborhood―was predominantly white. The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation. He founded the Afro-American Realty Company in 1903, vowing to vanquish housing...
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Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem―the iconic Black neighborhood―was predominantly white. The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation. He founded the Afro-American Realty Company in 1903, vowing to vanquish housing...
$138.00
Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths—and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy...
$27.98
Never Stop: A Memoir
“Hands down one of the best explorations into the Black male psyche I’ve ever read.” —EssenceNever Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful...
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My Name is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance
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My Name is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance
Steve D. Bullock was one of 22 children born to a sharecropper in segregated North Carolina... And rose to become the first African American President of the American Red Cross. Now his book chronicles how his "Four Pillars" of God,...
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The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO...
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The Making of Atoma Merc: Fighting the Ghost of White Supremacy
The Making of Atoma Merc: Fighting the Ghost of White Supremacy is about an identity lost and found. It is a story about the mindset of poverty and riches broken down to illustrate the negative effects of slavery. It is about...
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LeBron: Life Lessons from the King
A biographical account featuring the secrets to success from one of the greatest basketball players of all time: LeBron James“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.”His power, speed, and killer instincts made him a basketball phenom, but it was blood, sweat,...
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Knowing Who I Am: A Black Entrepreneur's Memoir of Struggle and Victory in the American South
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Knowing Who I Am: A Black Entrepreneur's Memoir of Struggle and Victory in the American South
An unlikely success story told against the backdrop of dramatic social and political changesA third-generation native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Earl M. Middleton has prospered in ways few African Americans have in the rural South. As owner of a successful...
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Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America (Chicago Lives)
Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of ExcellenceRecipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell AwardSixty years ago, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington, D.C. was a southern city in its unbending...
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James Lee Purnell Jr.: Memories of Struggles and Progress in a Segregated Worcester County, Maryland
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James Lee Purnell Jr.: Memories of Struggles and Progress in a Segregated Worcester County, Maryland
This is an autobiography of the first African-American elected to public office in Worcester County, Maryland. James Lee Purnell Jr. grew up on the outskirts of the small town of Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland in a time when Jim Crow...
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It Is Fun Making Money
It Is Fun Making Money is the autobiography and travel memoirs of G.W. King Jr. He and his wife, Edna, have been married for more than 40 years and have been financially independent for three-quarters of their married lives. The...
$26.49
Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia
The book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as a railroad terminus and connecting to ferry barges across the Chesapeake Bay...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the...
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The Herndons: An Atlanta Family
Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red clay fields of Georgia. Within forty years of Emancipation, however, he had amassed a fortune that far surpassed that of his White slave-master...
$42.95