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Autobiography25
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
4.09 average rating, · 56.5k ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.34 average rating, · 24.4k ratings
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My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay
4.29 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
4.38 average rating, · 12.4k ratings
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Nigger
Dick Gregory
4.40 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
4.28 average rating, · 9.2k ratings
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Writing My Wrongs
Shaka Senghor
4.25 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
Nathan McCall
4.16 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke
4.30 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
Lorraine Hansberry
4.42 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks
4.18 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
John Thompson
4.47 average rating, · 2k ratings
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That Peckham Boy
Kenny Imafidon
4.28 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
David Harewood
4.37 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
Frank Meeink
4.11 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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A Search for Belonging
Michael Fuller
4.42 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Louder I Will Sing
Lee Lawrence
4.47 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Love You Save: A Memoir
Goldie Taylor
4.13 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
Georgina Lawton
4.10 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire
Reginald F. Lewis
4.51 average rating, · 789 ratings
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Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
Nikesh Shukla
4.10 average rating, · 801 ratings
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Die Nigger Die!
H. Rap Brown
4.34 average rating, · 742 ratings
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Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr.
4.18 average rating, · 742 ratings
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More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
John K. Blake
4.35 average rating, · 631 ratings
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