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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

27 Resources 1 Award

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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

by Kao Kalia Yang

23 Resources 1 Award

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

37 Resources 14 Awards

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

18 Resources 1 Award

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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story

by Audrey Vernick and Don Tate

18 Resources

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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream

by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt , and Lisa Frazier Page

16 Resources

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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

by Kao Kalia Yang

15 Resources

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Black Boy

by Richard Wright

15 Resources

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

by Frederick Douglass

14 Resources

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When I Was Puerto Rican

by Esmeralda Santiago

14 Resources

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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

13 Resources 1 Award

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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

by Melissa Fleming

12 Resources 1 Award

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Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others

by Joanie Holzer Schirm

12 Resources

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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

by Beth Macy

11 Resources 1 Award

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

by Maya Angelou

11 Resources

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

by Wes Moore

11 Resources

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An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

by Paul Rusesabagina

11 Resources

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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

by Diane Guerrero

10 Resources 2 Awards

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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

by Carlotta Walls LaNier

10 Resources

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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

by Francisco Cantú

10 Resources

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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

by Firoozeh Dumas

10 Resources

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Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters

by Michael Mahin and Evan Turk

25 Resources 6 Awards

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

9 Resources

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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement

by Carolyn Maull McKinstry and Denise George

9 Resources

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Strength in What Remains

by Tracy Kidder

9 Resources 1 Award

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The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

9 Resources

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I Shall Not Be Moved

by Maya Angelou

9 Resources

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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

by Laura L. Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

8 Resources 1 Award

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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

by Mychal Denzel Smith

8 Resources

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

8 Resources

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Panther Baby

by Jamal Joseph

8 Resources

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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

by Martha A. Sandweiss

8 Resources

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The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers

by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

8 Resources

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Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

by Juan Felipe Herrera and Raúl Colón

23 Resources 3 Awards

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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

8 Resources

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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

by Nicole Chung

7 Resources 3 Awards

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Kill 'em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

by James McBride

7 Resources

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

7 Resources

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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

by Zora Neale Hurston

7 Resources

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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

by Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, and Frank Sikora

7 Resources

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Jerusalem: A Family Portrait

by Boaz Yakin and Nick Bertozzi

7 Resources 3 Awards

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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

by Daniel Bergner

6 Resources

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12 Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

6 Resources

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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

by Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas

6 Resources

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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

6 Resources

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

by Catherine Clinton

6 Resources

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

by Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. and Cecil Murphey

6 Resources

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Kaffir Boy

by Mark Mathabane

6 Resources

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