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15 Famous Black Scientists in History
African American Experience in Louisiana
African-Americans in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography (A database from the Dictionary of Virginia Biography that links to the actual biographical entries of African Americans.)
Alex Haley Biography
All the Stories are True: African American Writers Speak (Smithsonian)
Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer who the Presidents Couldn’t Ignore
Biographies of Famous African Americans (database of biographies)
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the AME Church - Including History of Wilberforce University (Wilberforce University)
Civil War in Southern Ohio (African American soldier biographies)
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Daniel Hale Williams, MD: A Moses in the Profession
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (African American doctor Rock County Connections)
Famous Black Artists
Frederick Douglass: American Abolitionist
Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s (baseball league)
Notable Kentucky African Americans Database
Revolutionary War Soldiers (3 African American bios)
St. Johns County African-American World War I Soldiers with some Biographies
The Struggle for Justice (Smithsonian)
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Resource Guide
WEB DuBois Learning Center
Aaseng, Nathan. African-American Religious Leaders. New York: Facts on File, 2003. 264p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Aa77af/
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement. . New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996. 232p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Ab324bL/
Adams, William Crawford Samuel. Freeborn: 350 Years of Eastern Shore African American History--The Adams/Beckett Family. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000. 140p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. /GC 929.2 Ad101aw/
African American Biographies. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2006. Volume 1-10. Illustrations. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af833bg/
African American Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 1025p. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af8337/
Agle, Nan Hayden. Free to Stay: The True Story of a Former Slave and the Family She Adopted. Fruitland, MD: Maryland History Press, 2000. 160p. Photographs. /GC 975.2 Ag53fr/
Aleshire, William A. A Buffalo Soldier's Story: Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Thomas Boyne and His Comrades, 1864 to 1889. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004. 705p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1ales/
Alexander, Eleanor. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex, and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910. Providence, RI: E. Alexander, 1996. 377p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 Al261Ly/
Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986. 245p. Notes. /GC 973.068 Si846/
Angell, Stephen Ward. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Knoxville, TX: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992. 340p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.102 M56an/
Atkins, James E. Adam Boykin: Slave, Soldier, Citizen. Surry County, VA: n. pub., 2008. 69p. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 975.501 SU7AT
Baker, Henry E. The Colored Inventor. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 12p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B17co/
Ball, Erica L, Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 501p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 929.19 Am35b/
Bankston, Carl L. III. African Americans. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011. 5 vols. Bibliographies. Index. Photographs. Great Lives from History Series. /GC 973.068 Af833gr V. 1-5/
Basker, James G. Black Writers of the Founding Era, 1760-1800. Ypsilanti, MI: The Library of America, 2023. 706p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B56b
Baskin, Wade and Richard N. Runes. Dictionary of Black Culture. New York: Philosophical Library, 1973. 493p. /GC 973.068 B293di/
Basso, Ralph. Nationalism, Nativism, and the Black Soldier: Daniel Ullmann, A Biography of a Man Living in a Period of Transition, 1810-1892. New York: R. Basso, 1985. 453p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 B295na/
Beam, Laura. He Called Them By the Lightning: A Teacher's Odyssey in the Negro South, 1908-1919. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. 230p. Notes. /GC 973.068 B37he/
Beck, Jane C. Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 295p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T851be/
Beito, David T. and Linda Royster Beito. Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 304p. Index. Notes. Photographs/GC 973.068 H831b/
Bell, Richard. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. . New York: 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2019. 318p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 413st/
Bennet, Bernice Alexander et. al. Our Ancestors, Our Stories. Suwanee, GA: The Write Image, 2014. 161p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975.702 Ed35bai/
Bentley, Kenneth W. Women of Courage II. Glendale, CA: Nestle, 1998. 65p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B446w/
Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1967. 267p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 T776b/
Berry, Mary Frances. "We Are Who We Say We Are:" A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2015. 206p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B459we/
Berry, Stephen. Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 554p. Index. Notes. /GC 975 B459p/
Billington, Ray Allen, ed. The Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Young Black Woman's Reactions to the White World of the Civil War Era--A Free Negro in the Slave Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1953. 286p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F77j/
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. . Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2008. 803p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B56/
Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Inc., 1999. 730p. Bibliographies. Index. /GC 929.1 B56wr/
Blackett, R. J. M. Beating Against the Barriers: The Lives of Six Nineteenth-Century Afro-Americans. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. 417p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B563be/
Blake, John. Children of the Movement. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004. 260p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B58ch/
Bowley, Freeman S. A Boy Lieutenant: Memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley, 30th United States Colored Troops Officer. Fredericksburg, VA: Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, Inc., 1997. 124p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1bov/
Boyd, Gerald M. My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2010. 402p. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 B691by/
Braithwaite, Rella and Tessa Benn-Ireland. Some Black Women: Profiles of Black Women in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Sister Vision, 1993. 119p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 971 B731s/
Branche, Juanita Odom. Lost Identities, Ancestors of the Past: Bailey, Branche, Clarke, Floyd, Harley, Holmes, Odom, Reynolds, Walker. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1996. 114p. Maps. Photographs. Charts and tables. Much data regarding tracing an African American family. /GC 929.2 Od47b/
Brown-Kubisch, Linda. The Queen's Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers, 1839-1865. Toronto, Ontario: Natural Heritage Books, 2004. 340p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 971.301 W46bk/
Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. 514p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 B828on/
Bundles, A'Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. New York: Pocket Books, 2001. 415p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC GC 929.2 W151bu/
Burnard, Trevor. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 320p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 972.92 B931m/
Byrd, Rudolph P., ed. Generations in Black and White. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 172p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 V375ge/
Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2011. 279p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C223ph/
Chalk, Ocania. Pioneers of Black Sport: The Early Days of the Black Professional Athlete in Baseball, Basketball, Boxing and Football. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975. 305p. Index. Appendix. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C35pi/
Cheek, William and Aimee Lee Cheek. John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65. . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 478p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photograph. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC 973.068 C414jo/
Christopher, Maurine. Black Americans in Congress. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. 329p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C466bL/
Cole, C.R. Samuel Fraunces: "Black Sam". [Centre County, PA] : [C.R. Cole], 2009. 121p. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 F8653CO/
Cooper, Helen. . The House of Sugar Beach. New York: Simon Schuster, 2008. 336p. Photographs. /GC 929.2 929.2 C7846c/
Crawford, George W. Prince Hall and His Followers: Being a Monograph on the Legitimacy of Negro Masonry. New York: The Crisis, 1914. 96p. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 C856p/
Crow, Hugh. The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain. Oxford, England: Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, 2007. 198p. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 929.2 C8885ch/
Cunningham, Michael and Connie Briscoe. Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. 214p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C917je/
Dagbovic, Pero Gaglo. The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 258p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 D132e/
Daniels, Nathan W. Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 214p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1dan/
Davis, Lenwood G., William J. Rice, and James H. McLaughlin. African Americans in Winston Salem/Forsyth County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1999. 192p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 975.602 W73da/
Davis, Michael D. Black American Women in Olympic Track and Field: A Complete Illustrated Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1992. 170p. Appendix. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D92bl/
Dean, Mary. The Black Legends of Kansas. Wichita, KS: M. Dean, 2015. 145p. Photographs. /GC 978.1 D344bL/
DeCuir, Randy, ed. Paving the Way for a Black President--Obama's Political Ancestors: The First African-American Senator and Congressmen. . Marksville, LA: R. Decuir, 2016. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D35pa/
Diop, Leon and Briana Fitzsimons. Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes. Dublin, Ireland: Little Island Books, 2023. 175p. Illustrations. /GC 941.5 B56d/
Donaldson, Cynthia Norfleet. Hidden History: My Family's Ancestral Roots. Springfield, OH: C.N. Donaldson, 2019. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 N765dc/
Donaldson, Cynthia Norfleet. Life in Black and White: A Family's Story of Navigating the Color Line. Columbus, OH: C.N. Donaldson, 2022. 287p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 C358dc/
Drago, Edmund L., ed. Broke by the War: Letters of a Slave Trader. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. 152p. Notes. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 975.702 C38mce/
Dray, Philip. Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 463p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D797c/
Due, Tananarive and Patricia Stephens Due. Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. New York: One World, 2003. 389p. Index. Notes. Photos. /GC 973.068 D868fr/
Duster, Alfreda M. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. 434p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 W46c/
Editors of Ebony. The Ebony Success Library, Volume 1: 1,000 Successful Blacks. Nashville, TN: The Southwestern Company, 1973. 341p. Photographs. /GC 973 Eb74esl/
Editors of Salem Press. Notable African American Writers. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., Vol. 1-3. Bibliographies. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.11 N843af V 1-3/
Emberton, Carole. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. 242p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975.6 Em1t/
Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G.W. Offley, James L. Smith. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. 240p. /GC 974.6 F586/
Flipper, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 322p. /GC 973.068 F648co/
Foley, Albert S. God's Men of Color: The Colored Catholic Priests of the United States, 1859-1954. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 322p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F699go/
Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 298p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 F732fa/
Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 290p. Illustrations. Indices. /GC 973.068 F732f/
Franklin, John Hope & Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 286p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T362fr/
Fullwood, Valaida. Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists. Charlotte, NC: Foundation for the Carolinas, 2011. 365p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 F959gi/
Gable-Wilson, Sonya R. Let Freedom Sing! Four African-American Concert Singers in Nineteenth-Century America. Gainesville, FL: S. R. Gable-Wilson, 2005. 231p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 929.11 G113Le/
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986., 800p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 G194be/
Garrow, David J., ed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. 190p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 976.101 M76ro/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own. New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. 191p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929 G223f/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past. New York: Crown Publishers, 2009. 438p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 G223i/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Eight volumes. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af8338 V. 1-8/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 595 p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 G2268ga/
Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How and Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 256p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.0496 G32m/
Gibson, Lyle Eric. Black Tie White Tie: Chronicle of an American Family, 1739-1940. Kansas City, KS: Cushani Publishing, Inc., 168p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R25ga/
Gibson, Lyle Eric. The Reed-Walker Family: Descendants of Savannah Reed-Walker. Pine Bluff, AR: L. E. Gibson, 1995. 133p. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 R25g/
Gilliland, C. Herbert. Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. 329p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 L435v/
Goings, Henry. Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 157p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. /GC 973.068 G561ra/
Goodwin, Robert. Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South. New York: Harper, 2008. 414p. Index. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 G632C/
Gordan, Grant. From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister. Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press Limited, 1992. 356p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 971.6 G655f/
Gould, William IV. Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. 373p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.74 Aa1gou/
Grant, Gail Milissa. At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights. St. Louis, MO: Missouri History Museum, 2008. 251p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.802 Sa227ggm/
Grizzle, Stanley G. My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada-Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle. Toronto, Ontario: Umbrella Press, 1998. 127p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 971 G887m/
Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor. The Sweeter The Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 271p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T21hs/
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (Colored): The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 319p. Index. Notes. /GC 940.5410 Aalhg/
Hall, Nora Darlene. On Being an African-American Woman: Gender and Race in the Writings of Six Black Women Journalists, 1849-1936. Minneapolis, MN: N. D. Hall, 1998. 376p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 H14on/
Harmon, Judith Eilene Brown. James Weldon Johnson, A New Negro: A Study of His Early Life and Literary Career, 1871-1916. Atlanta, GA: Emory University, 1988. 246p. Dissertation. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 H228ja/
Harris, Milton Stephen. Black Family Tree: "Slavery to 1984." Owensboro, KY: M. S. Harris, 1984. 60p. Photographs. /GC 929.2 Si47ha/
Harrison, Paul Carter, Bill Duke, and Danny Glover. Black Light: The African American Hero. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. 208p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H245bL/
Haskins, James. Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999. 314p. Index. Appendices. Bibliography. Photographs. Notes. /GC 973.068 H273d/
Haskins, John. . Black Eagles: African American in Aviation. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1995. 196p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H273bL/
Hawkins, Walter L. African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men and Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1992. 490p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H314af/
Hawkins, Walter L. African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States Military. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993. 264p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1haw/
Hawkins, Walter L. Black American Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. 549p. Appendices. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1hawa/
Heller, Charles E. In Advance of Fate: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867. Amherst, MA: C. E. Heller, 1985. 452p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974 H367in/
Hicks, Nora Louis. Slave Girl Reba and Her Descendants in America. s.l.: s.p., 1974. 95p. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 H5297Hi
Hill, Pascoe Grenfell. Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel in the Mozambique Channel, April and May, 1843. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1993. 58p. /GC 973.068 H552f/
Hinkle, Alice M. Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier. Lexington, MA: Pleasant Mountain Press, 2001. 94p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.34 M38hi/
Hotaling, Edward. The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First National Sport. Rocklin, CA: FORUM, 1999. 380p. Index. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 H797gr/
Jacobs, Donald M. Index to the American Slave. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. 274p. /GC 929.11 In2/
Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 295p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 975.6 J15u/
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionist Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies & the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 337p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 J37ab/
Johnson, Dolores. Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. 64p. Index. Photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 H3984jo/
Johnson, John L. Every Night & Every Morn: Portraits of Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, African-American, and Native-American Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Winston- Salem, NC: Tristan Press, 2007. 263p. Appendices. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1JJL/
Johnson, Michael D. Wade H. Hammond (1879-1957): Early Twentieth Century African-American Military Bandmaster. Lubbock, TX: M. D. Johnson, 2004. 314p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 J63wa/
Johnson, Mildred and Theresa Delsoin. Malindy's Freedom: The Story of a Slave Family. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2005. 215p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W691iy/
Johnson, Robert. Why Blacks Left America for Africa: Interviews with Black Repatriates, 1971-1999. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 162p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 J63wh/
Johnson, Robert Lee. Notable Southern Californians in Black History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017. 127p. Photographs. /GC 979.4 J63n/
Jones, Marquita Chamblee. A Profile of Black Agriculture Students at Selected 1862 and 1890 Land Grant Institutions. University Park, PA: M. C. Jones, 1993. 141p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 J71pr/
King, Cynthia P. Rhetoric and Resistance in the Historical Narratives of Nineteenth Century African Americans William Wells Brown and George Washington Williams. College Park, MD: C. P. King, 2002. 227p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 K58rh/
Krapp, Kristine, ed. Notable Black American Scientists. Farmington, MI: Gale Research, 1999. 349p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 N843k/
Kremer, Gary R. George Washington Carver in His Own Words. Columbia, MO; University of Missouri Press, 1987. 208p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C256c/
Lacey, Earnest Edward. The Search for FreeJoe. Memphis, TN: FreeJoe Enterprises, 1999. 257p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 H24l/
Lampe, Gregory P. Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845. Madison, WI: G. P. Lampe, 1995. 499p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 L196fr/
Lanier, Shannon and Jane Feldman. Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family. New York: Random House, 2000. 144p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 J356L/
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. 403p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. Family Tree. /GC 973.068 L329bo/
Lee, George L. Interesting People: Black American History Makers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 1976. 210p. Index. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 L511m/
Lee, Irvin H. Negro Medal of Honor Men. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967. 139p. Index. Bibliography. Appendix. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L51ne/
Lemon, Samuel Michael. Go Stand Upon the Rock: From Stories Handed Down by My Grandmother About How Our Ancestors Fought to be Free. S.l.: Buckhorn Press, 2012. 297p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R437Le/
Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. 167p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L578fr/
Lo, Mbaye and Carl W. Ernst. I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 218p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L78ic/
Ludlow, Susie Nickens. Carry Me Back: A Family and National History of Slavery and Freedom. Oakland, CA: Honocan Press, 2000. 264p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 N5289L/
Lutz, Christine Ann. "The Dizzy Steep to Heaven:" The Hunton Family, 1850-1970. Atlanta, GA: C. A. Lutz, 2001. 367p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 929.2 H926Lu/
Lyman, Gracie May Williams et al. Memoirs of My Family's Legacy: Puzzles of a Lifetime. S.l.: N. Jones Enterprise LLC, 2016. 267p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W6714Lg/
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Mather, Frank Lincoln, ed. Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent. Chicago, IL: s. n., 1915. 296p. /GC 929.11 W62co/
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