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Allen, Walter C., and Brian A. L. Rust. King Joe Oliver. London, Sidgwick and Jackson [1958] 224 p. illus. ML419.O4A6 1958 Biography of a great jazz musician. Anderson, Marian. My Lord, what a morning; an autobiography. New York, Viking Press, 1956. 312 p. illus. ML420.A6A3 Armstrong, Henry. Gloves, glory, and God; an autobiography. [Westwood, N.J.] F. H. Revell Co. [1956] 256 p. illus. GV1132.A7A3 Ashe, Arthur. Advantage Ashe, by Arthur Ashe, Jr., as told to Clifford George Gewecke, Jr. New York, Coward-McCann [1967] 192 p. illus. GV994.A7A3 The achievements to date of an outstanding tennis player. Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way to freedom. A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan. Cincinnati, American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1862. 216 p. illus., ports. E444.W79 Slave life in North Carolina and Alabama. Bailey, Pearl. The raw Pearl. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1968] 206 p. ports. ML420.B123A3 [Ball, Charles] Fifty years in chains; or, The life of an American slave. New York, H. Dayton, 1859. 430 p. E444.B184 Prepared by —— Fisher from the verbal narrative of Ball, a slave. Earlier editions published under title: Slavery in the United States. Bartlett, Irving H. Wendell Phillips, Brahmin radical. Boston, Beacon Press [1961] 438 p. E449.P5594 Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 402-432). An abolitionist leader. Beckwourth, James P. The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth [edited by] T. D. Bonner. New York, Arno Press, 1969. 537 p. illus. (The American Negro, his history and literature) F592.B388 1969 Bennett, Lerone. What manner of man; a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. With an introduction by Benjamin E. Mays. [3d rev. ed.] Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1958. 251 p. illus., ports. E185.97.K5B4 1968 Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey toward freedom; the story of Sojourner Truth. New York, Norton [1967] xiv, 265 p. illus., ports. E185.97.T82 Bibliography: p. [255]-259. Upon gaining her freedom in 1828, Sojourner Truth became a lecturer advocating immediate emancipation for her people and the right to vote for women. Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introduction by Lucius C. Matlack. New York, The author, 1949. 204 p. illus. E444.B58 Bleiweiss, Robert M., Jacqueline L. Harris, and Joseph R. Marfuggi. Marching to freedom; the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Middletown, Conn., American Education Publications [1968] 152 p. illus., ports. E185.97.K5B55 Bradford, Sarah E. H. Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people. Introduction by Butler A. Jones. New York, Corinth Books [1961] 149 p. illus. (The American experience series) [E444.T894] [TR: E444.T82B73 1993] First ed. published in 1869 under title: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. "Reprint of the expanded second edition of 1886." Branch, Hettye W. The story of "80 John," a biography of one of the most respected Negro ranchmen in the Old West. New York, Greenwich Book Publishers [1960] 59 p. F392.M6B7 A brief story of Daniel Webster Wallace, a Negro rancher. Brawley, Benjamin G. Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet of his people. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1936. 159 p. port. PS1557.B7 "Appendix. The Praise of Dunbar": p. 127-140. Bibliography: p. 141-151. Broderick, Francis L. W. E. B. DuBois, Negro leader in a time of crisis. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1959. 259 p. illus. E185.97.D73B7 Bibliography: p. [233]-236. Brown, Claude. Manchild in the promised land. New York, Macmillan [1965] 415 p. E185.97.B86A3 Autobiographical study of life in Harlem. Brown, John. Slave life in Georgia: a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England. Edited by L. A. Chamero
gro leadership. Boston, Heath [1962] 113 p. (Problems in American civilization) E185.97.W235 Hawkins, William G. Lunsford Lane; or, Another helper from North Carolina. Boston, Crosby & Nichols, 1863. 305 p. port. E444.L26 Lane, an antislavery lecturer, spent 32 years in slavery. He served as "waiter and messenger" to two Governors of the State of North Carolina. Hayden, William. Narrative of William Hayden, containing a faithful account of his travels for a number of years, whilst a slave, in the South. Cincinnati [Published for the author] 1846. 156 p. plates, port. E444.H41 Henson, Josiah. Father Henson's story of his own life. Introduction by Walter Fisher. New York, Corinth Books [1962] 212 p. illus. (The American experience series, AE18) E444.H523 1962 First published in 1858 under title: Truth Stranger than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Henson, Matthew A. A Negro explorer at the North Pole. With a foreword by Robert E. Peary and an introduction by Booker T. Washington; with illustrations from photographs. New York, F. A. Stokes Co. [1912] xx, 200 p. illus., plates, ports. G670.1909.H5 Reprint issued by Arno Press, 1969. Hickey, Neil, and Ed Edwin. Adam Clayton Powell and the politics of race. New York, Fleet Pub. Corp. [1965] 308 p. illus., ports. E748.P86H5 Bibliography: p. 299-300. Holdredge, Helen O. Mammy Pleasant's partner. New York, Putnam [c1954] 300 p. illus. F869.S3B4 1954 The story of Thomas Frederick Bell in San Francisco. Holt, Rackham. George Washington Carver, an American biography. Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1963] 360 p. illus. S417.C3H6 1963 Holt, Rackham. Mary McLeod Bethune; a biography. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964. 306 p. illus., ports. E185.97.B34H6 An outstanding educator and political figure. Horne, Lena, and Richard Schickel. Lena. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965. 300 p. illus., ports. ML420.H65A35 Hoyt, Edwin P. Paul Robeson, the American Othello. Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1967] 228 p. ML420.R73H7 Bibliographical footnotes. Hughes, Langston. The big sea, an autobiography. New York, Hill and Wang [1963, c1940] 335 p. (American century series) PS3515.U274Z5 1963 Hughes, Langston. I wonder as I wander; an autobiographical journey. New York, Rinehart [1956] 405 p. PS3515.U274Z58 Hughes, William H., and Frederick D. Patterson, eds. Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1956] 238 p. illus. E185.97.M92H8 "Volume of tributes to the life of Dr. Robert Russa Moton." Huie, William B. Ruby McCollum; woman in the Suwannee jail. Rev. ed. [New York] New American Library [1964] 190 p. illus., port. (A Signet book) DLC-LL [TR: LAW] Hunton, George K. All of which I saw, part of which I was; the autobiography of George K. Hunton as told to Gary MacEÓin. Introduction by Roy Wilkins. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1967. 283 p. E185.61.H96 A crusader for racial justice. Jackson, Mahalia. Movin' on up. With Evan McLeod Wylie. New York, Hawthorn Books [1966] 212 p. illus., ports. ML420.J17A3 Discography: p. [215], [218]-[219]. Probably the best known gospel singer. Jefferson, Isaac. Memoirs of a Monticello slave, as dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's by Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves. Edited by Rayford W. Logan. Charlottesville, Published by the University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1951. 45 p. port. E444.J4 "Appeared simultaneously in the autumn 1951 William and Mary Quarterly." "Bibliographical note": p. 37-38. Johnson, James W. Along this way; the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. New York, Viking Press, 1933. 418 p. plates, ports. [E185.97.J69] [TR: PS3519.O2625Z463 1933] Life of a diplomat, poet, and anthologist. Schuyler, Philippa D. Adventures in black and white. Foreword by Deems Taylor. New York, R. Speller [1960] 302 p. illus. ML417.S42A3 An account of the author's travels in sixty countries. This child prodigy, musician, and composer, died in Vietnam while on a visit to entertain the troops. Singleton, George A. The autobiography of George A. Singleton. Boston, Forum Pub. Co. [1964] 272 p. illus., ports. [BX8449.S5A3] The story of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Smith, Amanda B. An autobiography; the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist; containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an independent missionary. With an introduction by Bishop Thoburn. Chicago, Meyer, 1893. xvi, 506 p. plates, ports. BV3785.S56A3 1893 Somerville, John A. Man of colour; an autobiography. With a foreword by P. M. Sherlock. Kingston, Jamaica, Pioneer Press [1951] 134 p. illus. E185.97.S65 1951 Spencer, Samuel R. Booker T. Washington and the Negro's place in American life. Boston, Little, Brown [1955] 212 p. (The Library of American biography) E185.97.W272 Sterling, Dorothy. Captain of the Planter; the story of Robert Smalls. Illustrated by Ernest Crichlow. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1958. 264 p. illus. E185.97.S6S8 Bibliography: p. 247-264. The Planter was a Confederate gunboat seized and turned over to the Union by Smalls, a slave crewman. Steward, Austin. Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. 3d ed. Rochester, N.Y., Allings & Cory, 1861. 360 p. plates, port. E444.S845 Still, James. Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still. [Philadelphia] Printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott, 1877. 274 p. port. E185.97.S85 James Still was the brother of William Still, the author of The Underground Railroad. Tarry, Ellen. The third door; the autobiography of an American Negro woman. New York, D. McKay Co. [1955] 304 p. E185.97.T37A3 Tarry, Ellen. Young Jim; the early years of James Weldon Johnson. New York, Dodd, Mead [1967] 230 p. facsims., ports. PS3519.O2625Z89 Tatum, E. Ray. Conquest or failure? Biography of J. Frank Norris. Dallas, Baptist Historical Foundation [1966] 295 p. illus., ports. BX6495.N59T3 Bibliographical footnotes. Terrell, Mary C. A colored woman in a white world. Washington, Ransdell [c1940] 436 p. port. E185.97.T47 Thomas, Jesse O. My story in black and white; the autobiography of Jesse O. Thomas. Foreword by Whitney M. Young, Jr. New York, Exposition Press [1967] 300 p. (An Exposition-banner book) E185.97.T49A3 Thomas, Piri. Down these mean streets. New York, Knopf, 1967. 333 p. F128.9.P8T5 Autobiographical account of life among the Puerto Ricans and Negroes in New York City. Thomas, Will. The seeking. New York, A. A. Wyn [1953] 290 p. E185.97.T52A3 Autobiographical; the author is a journalist and writer from Vermont. Thompson, Era B. American daughter. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1946] 300 p. E185.97.T53 Thompson, John. The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave; containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape. Worcester, J. Thompson, 1856. 143 p. E444.T47 Thornbrough, Emma L., comp. Booker T. Washington. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [c1969] 184 p. (Great lives observed) E185.97.W277 A Spectrum book. "Bibliographical note": p. 178-182. Ward, Samuel R. Autobiography of a fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada, & England. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 412 p. port. (The American Negro: his history and literature) E449.W27 1968 Washington, Booker T. Up from slavery; an autobiography. New York, Doubleday, Page, 1901. 330 p. port. E185.97.W3 Originally published in the |
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