14 best-selling history books like Nigger by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte

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Nigger

By: Dick Gregory , Robert Lipsyte

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room ton…

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's An Autobiography book and Dick Gregory's Nigger

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

Cover of The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, H. Khalif Khalifah

2. The Mis-Education of the Negro

By: Carter G. Woodson , H. Khalif Khalifah

4.48

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter… read more

Similar categories in Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro book and Dick Gregory's Nigger

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • african american
"History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never …"

-Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

"Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desi…"

-Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

"If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man f…"

-Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

Cover of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.

3. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • african american
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4. Soul on Ice

By: Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way the United States loo… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle her…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

"The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and s…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

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5. Nigger

By: Dick Gregory , Robert Lipsyte

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room ton… read more

Similar categories in Dick Gregory's Nigger book and Dick Gregory's Nigger

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

6. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

By: Jon Lee Anderson

3.73

Format: None pages,

From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962) by Nelson Mandela

7. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Cover of Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

9. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by William L. Simon, Jeffrey S. Young

10. iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

By: William L. Simon , Jeffrey S. Young

3.50

Format: None pages,

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by George Breitman, Malcolm X

11. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

By: George Breitman , Malcolm X

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life.… read more

Similar categories in George Breitman's Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements book and Dick Gregory's Nigger

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, J. Herman Blake

12. Revolutionary Suicide

By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

4.19

Format: 714 pages, Paperback

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

14. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more

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15. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?

By: James H. Cone

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. read more

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16. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World

By: Louis Fischer

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph ov… read more

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17. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By: Manning Marable

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the def… read more

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18. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

By: Barack Obama

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more

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19. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

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Cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

20. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"

-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Cover of Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

21. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

By: Shomari Wills

3.91

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • african american

15 best-selling nonfiction books like Nigger by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte

Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson , H. Khalif Khalifah

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

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5 Best classics books like Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Transform Your Habits

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson , H. Khalif Khalifah

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Black Boy

Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

4.08

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