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African American Biographies
Selected Books
For additional books, browse the library catalog under the subject heading African Americans -- Biography.
Burrow Jr., Rufus
Martin Luther King Jr. for Armchair Theologians
In this important introduction to the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Burrow explores King's life, his thinking, and his activism, showing how his theological studies influenced, shaped, and transformed the path he pursued.
Martin Luther King Jr. for Armchair Theologians
In this important introduction to the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Burrow explores King's life, his thinking, and his activism, showing how his theological studies influenced, shaped, and transformed the path he pursued.
Cross, Charles R.
Room Full of Mirrors: a Biography of Jimi Hendrix
ML410.H476 C76 2005
Drawing on never-before-seen documents, private letters, and more than three hundred interviews, Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of rock's most enduring legends -- a man who, in twenty-seven short years, managed to rise from poverty, set the world aflame, and inadvertently extinguish his own burning talent.
Room Full of Mirrors: a Biography of Jimi Hendrix
ML410.H476 C76 2005
Drawing on never-before-seen documents, private letters, and more than three hundred interviews, Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of rock's most enduring legends -- a man who, in twenty-seven short years, managed to rise from poverty, set the world aflame, and inadvertently extinguish his own burning talent.
Hilliard, David
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
Huey Newton (1942–1989) founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California in 1966. In this first authorized biography, Newton's former chief of staff David Hilliard and authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman team up to tell the whole story of the man behind the organization that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover infamously dubbed "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."
E185.97.N48 H55 2006x
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
Huey Newton (1942–1989) founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California in 1966. In this first authorized biography, Newton's former chief of staff David Hilliard and authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman team up to tell the whole story of the man behind the organization that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover infamously dubbed "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."
E185.97.N48 H55 2006x
Nelson, Scott Reynolds
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains.
E185.97.H455 N45 2006
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains.
E185.97.H455 N45 2006
Obama, Barack
Dreams from my Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance
Illinois Senator Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America.
Dreams from my Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance
Illinois Senator Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America.
Smock, Raymond W.
Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
By many historians, Booker T. Washington was considered a compromiser who was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement.
Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
By many historians, Booker T. Washington was considered a compromiser who was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement.
Williams, Rita
If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
Writer Rita Williams tells of her own life growing up with her cantankerours Aunt Daisy.
E185.97.W73 A3 2006
If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
Writer Rita Williams tells of her own life growing up with her cantankerours Aunt Daisy.
E185.97.W73 A3 2006
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Pittsburgh Region
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Kids' Corner
Short biographies from Black History Month, February 1998. Some of the featured individuals are Black Pittsburghers.
United States - Collections
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
This Digital Library project from the New York Public Library includes a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. -
Black Collegian: Profiles of Great African Americans You Should Know
Short biographies of 23 African Americans that played an important role in African American history. -
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. -
Gale: Black History Month
Offers biographies of sixty men and women -
PBS: Jazz: A History of America's Music
This is the website to go with Ken Burns' ten-part epic series which aired on PBS January 8, 2001-
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Learn about the Jazz greats with information from the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
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