Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
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...
$43.99
James Lee Purnell Jr.: Memories of Struggles and Progress in a Segregated Worcester County, Maryland
$34.50
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...
$34.50
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...
$25.00
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...
$29.98
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
Change Agent: A Life Dedicated to Creating Wealth for Minorities
James H. Lowry encapsulated his thirty plus years of experience in the field of minority business development in the book he co-authored in 2011, Minority Business Success: Refocusing on the American Dream. In his new book, Change Agent: A Life Dedicated to...
$19.98
Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still...
$19.99
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance....
$18.00
Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
A “daring, urgent, and transformative” (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.“I remember the day I...
$57.98
Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
A “daring, urgent, and transformative” (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.“I remember the day I...
$17.99
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-winning entrepreneur and founder of MoviePass, reveals the tools he's used to persevere in the face of adversity, defy stereotypes, and shatter glass ceilings. BLACK FOUNDER is both an empowering memoir of...
$43.00
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies
Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the...
$27.95
Action Has No Season: Strategies and Secrets to Gaining Wealth and Authority
This is a must read for leaders and entrepreneurs; an amazing book of proverbs for decision-making. Taking "action" is the central theme, but the book guides the reader to mine for nuggets of wisdom which will facilitate one's growth and...
$17.00
Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street
Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on...
$40.00
Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African in American History
"...an adventure story more thrilling than Defoe or Melville could have imagined."--The Philadelphia Inquirer The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban Dorantes Crossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to...
$24.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 146)
Each volume ofContemporary Black Biographycontains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 145)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from two to four pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover portrait (as available); date and...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 150)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from two to four pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover portrait (as available); date and...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 148)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 149)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 147)
Each volume ofContemporary Black Biographycontains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 152)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from two to four pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover portrait (as available); date and...
$401.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 151)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from two to four pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover portrait (as available); date and...
$381.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 138)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 140)
Each volume ofContemporary Black Biographycontains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 139)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 141)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 144)
Each volume ofContemporary Black Biographycontains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 143)
Each volume ofContemporary Black Biographycontains 50 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available), Date and place of...
$331.99