African American History: Important Books

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches by Martin Luther King

The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates (Editor)

March, Book 1 by John Lewis

Between the World and Me

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York by Solomon Northup

Up From Slavery: An autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X.; Alex Haley (As told to)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

From Slavery to Freedom; A History of Negro Americans by John Hope Franklin

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Hip Hop Family Tree: 1970-1981 (Book 1) by Ed Piskor

Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance