African American Lives

Dedicated to the memory of Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

Biographies

The soul of a butterfly : reflections on life's journey/
Muhammad Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali ; photographs by Howard Bingham
Marian Anderson : a singer's journey/
Allan Keiler
The prisoner's wife : a memoir/
Asha Bandele
Life is so good/
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
An American story/
Debra J. Dickerson
Joycelyn Elders, M.D. : from sharecropper's daughter to surgeon general of the United States of America/
Joycelyn Elders and David Chanoff
Finding fish : a memoir/
by Antwone Quenton Fisher and Mim Eichler Rivas
Racism 101/
Nikki Giovanni
Wrapped in rainbows : the life of Zora Neale Hurston/
Valerie Boyd
Vernon can read! : a memoir/
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Annette Gordon-Reed
Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it/
as told to Kaleem Aftab
Tale of a sky-blue dress/
Thylias Moss
The road South : a memoir/
Shelley Stewart with Nathan Hale Turner, Jr
Black, white and Jewish : autobiography of a shifting self/
Rebecca Walker

Juvenile Biographies and Non-Fiction

The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights/
by Russell Freedman
Romare Bearden : collage of memories/
by Jan Greenberg
One more valley, one more hill : the story of Aunt Clara Brown/
Linda Lowery
Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman/
by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Duke Ellington/
James Lincoln Collier
Bone Black : memories of girlhood/
Bell Hooks
Coming home : from the life of Langston Hughes/
Floyd Cooper
Mae Jemison : out of this world/
Corinne J. Naden and Rose Blue
Mumbet : the life and times of Elizabeth Freeman : the true story of a slave who won her freedom/
Mary Wilds
Osceola : memories of a sharecropper's daughter/
collected and edited by Alan Govenar ; illustrated by Shane Evans
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger/
by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell
Walking the log : memories of a Southern childhood/
paintings and stories by Bessie Nickens
Bill Pickett, rodeo ridin' cowboy/
written by Andrea D. Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Ida B. Wells : mother of the civil rights movement/
Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin

Adult Non-Fiction

Cooking with grease : stirring the pots in American politics/
Donna Brazile
From rage to reason : my life in two Americas/
Janet Langhart Cohen with Alexander Kopelman
Ever is a long time : a journey into Mississippi's dark past, a memoir/
W. Ralph Eubanks
The Hairstons : an American family in black and white/
Henry Wiencek
Alex Haley's Queen : the story of an American family/
Alex Haley and David Stevens
The sweet hell inside : a family history/
Edward Ball
The Hornes : an American family/
Gail Lumet Buckley
Barbara Jordan : American hero/
Mary Beth Rogers
A true likeness : the black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936/
edited by Thomas L. Johnson and Phillip C. Dunn
The importance of pot liquor/
Jackie Torrence

Poetry and Essays

The palm of my heart : poetry by African American children/
edited by Davida Adedjouma ; illustrated by Gregory Christie ; introduction by Lucille Clifton
On the Bus With Rosa Parks/
Rita Dove
Through my eyes /
Ruby Bridges ; articles and interviews compiled and edited by Margo Lundell
The rose that grew from concrete/
Tupac Amaru Shakur
In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose/
Alice Walker