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1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever
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by
Bill Madden
Call Number: GV863 .A1 M28 2014
ISBN: 9780306823329
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Achieving the American dream: The Life of the Honorable Aris T. Allen
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by
Jude Thomas May
Call Number: R695 .M38 1990
Publication Date: 1990
African Founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals
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by
David Hackett Fischer
Call Number: E185 .F485 2022
ISBN: 9781982145095
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
The Age of Phillis
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by
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Call Number: PS3560 .E365 A74 2020
ISBN: 9780819579492
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
American Founders : how people of African descent established freedom in the new world
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by
Christina Proenza-Coles
Call Number: E185 .P76 2018
ISBN: 9781588383310
Publication Date: 2019-03-15
And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK
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by
Henry L. Gates; Kevin M. Burke
Call Number: E185.86 .G3734 2015
ISBN: 9780062427007
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Arthur Ashe : a life
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by
Raymond Arsenault
Call Number: GV994 .A7 A77 2018
ISBN: 9781439189047
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Ballerina Body
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by
Misty Copeland
Call Number: GV1788 .C635 2017
ISBN: 9781455596300
Publication Date: 2017-03-21
Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: the power of the ballot
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by
Ida E. Jones
Call Number: F189 .B19 N445 2019
ISBN: 9781467139939
Publication Date: 2019-01-21
Barack before Obama : life before the presidency
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by
David Katz; Barack Obama (Foreword by)
Call Number: E908.3 .K377 2020
ISBN: 9780063028746
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Becoming
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by
Michelle Obama
Call Number: E909 .O24 O23 2018
ISBN: 9781524763138
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
The Big Payback
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by
Dan Charnas
Call Number: ML3918 .R37 C52 2010
ISBN: 9780451229298
Publication Date: 2010-12-07
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life
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by
Christopher Freeburg
Call Number: PS153 .B53 F74 2017
ISBN: 9780813940311
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Black Ball
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by
Theresa Runstedtler
Call Number: GV885.515 .N37 R86 2023
ISBN: 9781645036951
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt
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by
Jill Watts
Call Number: E807 .W36 2020
ISBN: 9780802129109
Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Black Country Music
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by
Francesca T. Royster
Call Number: ML3524 .R69 2022
ISBN: 9781477326503
Publication Date: 2022-10-01
Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
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by
Shomari Wills
Call Number: HC102.5 .A2 W55 2018
ISBN: 9780062437594
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history
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by
Von Hardesty
Call Number: TL539 .H285 2008
ISBN: 9780061261381
Publication Date: 2008-01-22
Brothers in Valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor
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by
Guion S. Bluford (Foreword by); Robert F. Jefferson
Call Number: E185.63 .J44 2019
ISBN: 9781493031740
Publication Date: 2018-10-26
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
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by
Asma Naeem (Editor); Gamynne Guillotte (Introduction by); Hannah Klemm (Introduction by); Andréa Purnell (Introduction by)
Call Number: NX460.5 .H57 C85 2023
ISBN: 9781941366547
Publication Date: 2023-06-27
Dream a World Anew : the African American experience and the shaping of America
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by
Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult (Editor); Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Editor)
Call Number: E185 .D66 2016
ISBN: 9781588345684
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Educated for Freedom: the incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew up to Change a Nation
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by
Anna Mae Duane
Call Number: E449 .D835 2020
ISBN: 9781479847471
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet
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by
D. Marvin Jones
Call Number: E185.86 .J647 2013
ISBN: 9780313395772
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Public High School
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by
Alison Stewart; Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by)
Call Number: LD7501 .W3 S84 2013
ISBN: 9781613740095
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
The first twenty-five : an oral history of the desegregation of Little Rock's public junior high schools
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by
LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
Call Number: LC214.23 .L56 F56 2017
ISBN: 9781682260470
Publication Date: 2018-02-28
Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city
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by
Wes Moore; Erica L. Green
Call Number: HV6483 .B35 M66 2020
ISBN: 9780525512363
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
A Fool's errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
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by
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Call Number: E185.53 .W3 N383 2019
ISBN: 9781588346681
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The forgotten first : Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the breaking of the NFL color barrier
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by
Keyshawn Johnson; Bob Glauber
Call Number: GV939 .A1 J63 2021
ISBN: 9781538705483
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
From Totems to Hip-Hop
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by
Ishmael Reed (Editor)
Call Number: PS613 .F76 2003
ISBN: 9781560255000
Publication Date: 2002-12-30
Fugitive pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching
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by
Jarvis R. Givens
Call Number: LC2741 .G48 2021
ISBN: 9780674983687
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
George Washington Carver : a life
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by
Christina Vella
Call Number: S417 .C3 V45 2015
ISBN: 9780807160749
Publication Date: 2015-09-14
A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
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by
Rachel Devlin
Call Number: LC212.52 .D48 2018
ISBN: 9781541697331
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Highland Beach on the Chesapeake Bay : Maryland's first African American incorporated town
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by
Jack E. Nelson; Raymond L. Langston; Margo Dean Pinson
Call Number: F189 .H493 N45 2008
ISBN: 9781578645268
Publication Date: 2008-12-01
Hip-Hop Revolution
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by
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Call Number: ML3918 .R37 O33 2007
ISBN: 9780700615476
Publication Date: 2007-11-19
Ida: a Sword among Lions
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by
Paula J. Giddings
Call Number: E185.97 .W55 G53 2008
ISBN: 9780060519216
Publication Date: 2008-03-11
The Inauguration of Barack Obama : a photographic journal
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by
Washington Post Staff (Contribution by); Benjamin C. Bradlee (Foreword by)
Call Number: E901.1 .O23 I5 2009
ISBN: 9781600782848
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
Call Number: TR820.5 .P27545 2017
ISBN: 9783958291096
Publication Date: 2016-06-28
Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
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by
Rosalind Rosenberg
Call Number: E185.97 .M95 R67 2017
ISBN: 9780190656454
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever
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by
Kent Garrett; Jeanne Ellsworth
Call Number: LD2160 .G37 2020
ISBN: 9781328879974
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Life in Motion
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by
Misty Copeland
Call Number: GV1785 .C635 C66 2014
ISBN: 9781476737980
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
Lorraine Hansberry: the Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun
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by
Charles J. Shields
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 Z874 2022
ISBN: 9781250205537
Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Madam C.J. Walker: The making of an American icon
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by
Erica L. Ball
Call Number: HD9970.5 .C672 W3525 2021
ISBN: 9781442260382
Publication Date: 2021-01-29
Meals, Music, and Muses
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by
Alexander Smalls; Veronica Chambers
Call Number: TX715.2 .A47 S63 2020
ISBN: 9781250098092
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own
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by
Veronica Chambers
Call Number: E909 .O24 M43 2017
ISBN: 9781250114969
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
A most beautiful thing: The true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team
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by
Arshay Cooper
Call Number: GV790.92 .C67 A3 2020
ISBN: 9781250754769
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-slave Reparations
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by
Mary Frances Berry
Call Number: E185.97 .H825 B47 2006
ISBN: 9780307277053
Publication Date: 2006-10-10
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
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by
Coretta Scott King; Barbara Reynolds
Call Number: E185.97 .K47 A3 2017
ISBN: 9781627795982
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
The New Negro: The life of Alain Locke
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by
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Call Number: E185.97 .L79 S83 2017
ISBN: 9780195089578
Publication Date: 2018-02-01
No coincidences: Reflections of the first black female graduate of the United States Naval Academy
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by
JHwriting+ (Editor)
Call Number: V415 .M1 M56 2018
ISBN: 9780692182499
Publication Date: 2018-08-31
Obama: The Call of History
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by
Peter Baker
Call Number: E908 .B33 2017
ISBN: 9780935112900
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
Olympic pride, American prejudice: The untold story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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by
Deborah Riley Draper; Blair Underwood; Travis Thrasher
Call Number: GV722 1936 .D73 2020
ISBN: 9781501162152
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
The Other Wes Moore: One name, two fates
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by
Wes Moore
Call Number: F189 .B153 M66 2011
ISBN: 9780385528191
Publication Date: 2010-04-27
Our team : the epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball
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by
Luke Epplin
Call Number: GV875 .C7 E77 2021
ISBN: 9781250313799
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American
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by
Celeste-Marie Bernier; Henry Louis Gates (Epilogue by); Kennth Morris (Afterword by); John Stauffer; Zoe Trodd
Call Number: E449 .D75 S733 2015
ISBN: 9780871404688
Publication Date: 2015-11-02
A Promised Land
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by
Barack Obama
Call Number: E908 .A3 2020
ISBN: 9781524763169
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Proud: My fight for an unlikely American dream
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by
Ibtihaj Muhammad; Lori Tharps (As told to)
Call Number: GV1144.2 .M84 A3 2018
ISBN: 9780316518963
Publication Date: 2018-07-24
Race Music
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by
Guthrie P. Ramsey
Call Number: ML3556 .R28 2004
ISBN: 9780520243330
Publication Date: 2004-11-22
Reaping something new: African American transformations of Victorian literature
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by
Daniel Hack
Call Number: PS153 .B53 H15 2017
ISBN: 9780691169453
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
Rest Is Resistance
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by
Tricia Hersey
Call Number: BJ1499 .R4 H47 2022
ISBN: 9780316365215
Publication Date: 2022-10-11
Richard Potter: America's First Black Celebrity
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by
John A. Hodgson
Call Number: GV1545 .P65 H63 2018
ISBN: 9780813941042
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Shine Bright
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by
Danyel Smith
Call Number: ML82 .S615 2022
ISBN: 9780593132715
Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America
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by
Wil Haygood
Call Number: KF8745 .M34 H394 2015
ISBN: 9780307957191
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Soaring above Setbacks: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American Aviator
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by
Janet H. Bragg; Marjorie M. Kriz (Editor); Johnnetta B. Cole (Foreword by)
Call Number: TL540.B693 A3 1996
ISBN: 9781560984580
Publication Date: 1996-03-17
Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
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by
Maya Washington
Call Number: GV939 .W36125 W37 2022
ISBN: 9781542016674
Publication Date: 2021-12-07
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
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by
Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Call Number: PN4874 .G387 A3 2019
ISBN: 9781546083443
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Trails, tracks, tarmac: Lives of African Americans in the history and culture of Northern Anne Arundel County from 1850 to the present
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by
Clayton Greene
Call Number: F187 .A6 T73 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The truths we hold: An American journey
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by
Kamala Harris
Call Number: E901.1 .H37 A3 2019
ISBN: 9780525560715
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Watermelon and Red Birds
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by
Nicole A. Taylor
Call Number: TX715.2 .A47 T39 2022
ISBN: 9781982176211
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
Willie : The game-changing story of the NHL's first black player
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by
Willie O'Ree; Michael McKinley; Jarome Iginla (Foreword by)
Call Number: GV848.5 .O67 A3 2020
ISBN: 9780735239746
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
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by
Michael Kranish
Call Number: GV1051 .T3 K73 2019
ISBN: 9781501192593
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
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