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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 294,988 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 393,047 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 761,620 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 310,040 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,435 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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4.29 avg rating — 34,788 ratings
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 500,196 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 105,829 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 112,824 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 136,952 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 204,185 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 281,815 ratings
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Push
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3.88 avg rating — 59,775 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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4.20 avg rating — 21,929 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.06 avg rating — 84,510 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 125,425 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 58,848 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 165,566 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 125,814 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,494 ratings
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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4.31 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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4.49 avg rating — 10,194 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 56,272 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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4.33 avg rating — 633 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
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4.44 avg rating — 2,182 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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4.56 avg rating — 479 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
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4.47 avg rating — 5,627 ratings
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Soul on Ice
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3.97 avg rating — 14,788 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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4.36 avg rating — 18,302 ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
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4.46 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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4.13 avg rating — 11,759 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
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4.13 avg rating — 3,439 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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4.33 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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Black No More
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,976 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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4.59 avg rating — 35,476 ratings
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
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4.40 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 118,834 ratings
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 29,543 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 40,608 ratings
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The Known World
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3.84 avg rating — 45,662 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 35,567 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 589,030 ratings
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Cane River
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4.08 avg rating — 50,677 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.34 avg rating — 24,258 ratings
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Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
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4.59 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,518 ratings
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,697 ratings
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Action Words: Journey of a Journalist
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4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 38,820 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 371,252 ratings
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The Outsider
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4.17 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
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The Long Dream
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4.17 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.51 avg rating — 19,708 ratings
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Pym
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3.60 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
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Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition
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4.16 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
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3.85 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
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4.33 avg rating — 3,215 ratings
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Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
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3.74 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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Betsey Brown
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3.84 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
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4.66 avg rating — 276 ratings
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White Folks Guide to Understanding the Black Community, and Get Out the Vote
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
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4.25 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Murder Along Burley Creek
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Katie's Family: When Love Battles Prejudice
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Chaneysville Incident
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3.99 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
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4.29 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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The Journey Home: A Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Problem with the Blacks
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
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4.55 avg rating — 9,284 ratings
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Her Right To Flight
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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BLACKLISTED IN AMERICA
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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God Send Me My Husband!
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4.37 avg rating — 182 ratings
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
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3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 84,403 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.43 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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The Shoebox Kid
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Release: Cycles
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4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Still a Lady: Clarity, Love, and Light during a Global Pandemic
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations
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4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hating Self
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Standing Tall: Willie Long vs. U.S. Government at Mare Island Naval Shipyard
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
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4.78 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Alla and the Piano – The Russian Tragedy 1912 to 1924
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4.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Letters from My Hymie: A Little First-Person History of Immigration from Ukraine in 1914 to the New World, World War II, Disneyland, and Beyond
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4.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality
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4.93 avg rating — 192 ratings
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From Rags to Riches
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4.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Shadow and Act
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4.10 avg rating — 639 ratings
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One Good Person: War, Death, Hate, Hope, Love and Catfish
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Another Blue Rose
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Silent Loud: The Voice Inside Every Little Black Boy
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3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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4.50 avg rating — 952 ratings
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
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4.30 avg rating — 4,626 ratings
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 6,015 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
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4.36 avg rating — 25,015 ratings
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Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace
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4.20 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
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4.50 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Erasure
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4.16 avg rating — 33,895 ratings
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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4.09 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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