CRRL Picks: African American Success StoriesLike this list

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• All Blood Runs Red

  the Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

  Keith, Phil, 1946-

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• The Audacity of Hope

  Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

  Obama, Barack

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• Becoming

  Obama, Michelle, 1964-

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• Black Fortunes

  the Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

  Wills, Shomari

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• The Butler

  a Witness to History

  Haygood, Wil

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• A Class of Their Own

  Black Teachers in the Segregated South

  Fairclough, Adam

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• Dapper Dan

  Made in Harlem : a Memoir

  Day, Daniel R.

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• A Dream Too Big

  the Story of An Improbable Journey From Compton to Oxford

  Moore, Caylin Louis,

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• Dressed in Dreams

  a Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

  Ford, Tanisha C.

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• Forgotten

  the Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War

  Hervieux, Linda

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• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom

  Blight, David W.

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• Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around Washington, D.C.

  Masur, Jenny

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• High Price

  a Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

  Hart, Carl L.

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• Hollywood Black

  the Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers

  Bogle, Donald

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• It Worked for Me

  in Life and Leadership

  Powell, Colin L.

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• King Peggy

  An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed An African Village

  Bartels, Peggielene, 1953-

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• The Last Negroes at Harvard

  the Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

  Garrett, Kent

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• LeBron, Inc.

  the Making of a Billion-dollar Athlete

  Windhorst, Brian

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• Mighty Justice

  My Life in Civil Rights

  Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018

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• Notes From a Young Black Chef

  a Memoir

  Onwuachi, Kwame

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