Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words
By: Viola Ford Fletcher
4.31
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A lifetime in the making, DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY shares the journey of the oldest survivor an…
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1. Dust Tracks on a Road
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.11
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Mystery is the essence of divinity"-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
3. The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years
By: Paul Landis
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the he… read more
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- american history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- nonfiction
4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
5. There Was a Party for Langston
By: Jason Reynolds
4.48
Format: 56 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
7. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
9. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
10. Brooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more
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- adult
11. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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- race
12. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
13. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
14. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By: ReShonda Tate
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more
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- race
- adult
15. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
16. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
17. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
By: Neil King Jr.
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more
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- american history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
18. Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
By: Victor Luckerson
4.38
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
"The newspaper encouraged displaced entrepreneurs to open businesses in South Tulsa and continue smashing color barriers. But it also spoke to a larger argument about how the definition of black succe…"-Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
19. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- adult
20. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
By: Circe Moskowitz
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more
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21. Black Love Letters
By: Cole Brown
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confuse… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"I can't help that you're my muse, that every river in me runs back to you. - Jamila Woods"-Cole Brown, Black Love Letters
22. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
23. Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
By: Harry Dunn
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one… read more
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- american history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. Music to My Years: A Mixtape-Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up
By: Cristela Alonzo
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Unknown Binding
This memoir is “an emotional journey that will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between” (Wan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)
By: Danielle Allen
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more
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- adult
27. Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
By: April Ryan
4.15
Format: 208 pages, ebook
In this long-overdue celebration of Black women's resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, … read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
"The FBI, the country's national security apparatus, have declared white supremacy to be the country's most dangerous domestic terrorist threat."-April Ryan, Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
28. Child Bride
By: Jennifer Smith Turner
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embr… read more
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- race
29. Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words
By: Viola Ford Fletcher
4.31
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A lifetime in the making, DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY shares the journey of the oldest survivor an… read more
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- american history
- race
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
30. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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- adult
31. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
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