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*Recommended
for Teens
*ARETHA:
From These Roots by Aretha Franklin and David
Ritz. For the first time, the Queen of Soul tells
her story. ML420.F778 A3 1999
THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Edited
by Clayborne Carson. Extracted from King’s
speeches and writings, this is a "religious and
political autobiography rather than an exploration
of his private life." E185.97.K5 A52
1998
BARBARA
JORDAN: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers. An
inside look at a life of firsts including first
black in the Texas senate and the first black
keynote speaker at a national political convention.
E840.8.J62 R63 1998
BACKBEAT:
Earl Palmer’s Story by Tony Scherman. From
Vaudeville to the present, personal history of a
drummer who propelled hits by Little Richard, Fats
Domino, Ike and Tina Turner and many others.
ML419.P38 S34 1999
BEFORE
HIS TIME: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore
&endash; America’s First Civil Rights Martyr
by Ben Green. Fighting Jim Crow and police
corruption in rural Florida, Moore paid with his
life when a bomb was placed under his bed Christmas
Day, 1951. E185.97.M79 G74 1999
BLUE
AS THE LAKE: A Personal Geography by Robert B.
Stepto. As he relives his summers at the all-black
resort at Idlewild, Michigan, the author also
examines six generations of his family as they
strived to find and make a home. E185.97.S818 A3
1998
CATCHING
DREAMS: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
by Paul Bauer and Frazier Robinson. A
catcher’s view of the world of black baseball
in the 1920’s through the early 1950’s.
GV865.R596 A3 1999
COME
OUT THE WILDERNESS: Memoir of a Black Woman
Artist by Estella Conwill Majozo. Following the
author’s beginnings in the 1950’s
segregated South through an abusive marriage to
becoming an artist, cultural activist and the
recipient of the first doctorate in African
American literature. PS3563.A29827 Z465
1999
FREEDOM’S
CHILD: The Life of a Confederate General’s
Black Daughter by Carrie Allen McCray. Publicly
acknowledged and educated by her father, she became
the acting president of Virginia Seminary, a leader
in the NAACP and a lifelong activist for ‘full
freedom’ for Negroes. E185.97.A36 M38
1998
*GOT
YOUR BACK: The Life of a Bodyguard in the Hardcore
World of Gangsta Rap by Frank Alexander with
Heidi Siegmund Cuda. Tupac’s main bodyguard
tells what went down the night Tupac was murdered.
ML420.S529 A8 1998
*GRAND
CENTRAL WINTER: Stories from the Street by
Caverly Stringer. Sometimes humorous, always
poignant personal tales of the author’s
struggle to survive on the streets of New York
City. HV4506.N6 S77 1998
GROOVIN’
HIGH: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn
Shipton. Popularly known for his stage antics and
puffed-out cheeks, this biography reveals the
intellectual who created bebop in the forties and
the Afro-Latin sound in the eighties. ML419.G54 S55
1999
*HEAT:
My Life On and Off the Diamond by Dwight Gooden
with Bob Klapisch. Alcohol and drug addiction
nearly ended the career of this Rookie of the Year
and Cy Young award winner. GV865.G62 A34
IN
THE GARDEN OF OUR DREAMS: Memoirs of a Marriage
by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip and Harold C. Haizlip. A
forty-year love affair that began as a blind date
when she was at Wellesley and he was at Harvard.
E185.96 .M174 1998
*LADIES
FIRST: Revelations from a Strong Woman by Queen
Latifah with Karen Hunter. The rapper takes readers
behind the scenes of her life, sharing her
mistakes, heartbreaks and successes. HQ1206 .L375
1999
MANDELA:
The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson. An
unprecendented look at "a true profile in courage."
DT1974 .S26 1999
*NEFERTITI:
Egypt’s Sun Queen by Joyce A. Tyldesley.
She was the most influential woman in the Bronze
Age until she vanished without a trace. DT87.45
.T95 1999
ON
A POSITIVE NOTE: Her Joyous Faith, Her Life in
Music, & Her Everyday Blessings by CeCe
Winans with Renita Weems. The gospel superstar.
ML420.W583 A3 1999x
PLAYING
FOR KEEPS: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
by David Halberstam. The making of Michael - the
image and the athlete. GV884.J67 H35
1999
*PROJECT
GIRL by Janet McDonald. Considered a nerd in
the projects, a "Project Girl" at Vassar; McDonald
battles heroin addiction and other problems before
finding her real self. F128.9.N4 M33
1999
RAY
CHARLES: Man and Music by Michael Lydon. Drug
addict, womanizer, blind man, black man, musical
visionary &endash; his highs, his lows and his
bittersweet old age. ML420.C46 L93 1998
REMINISCING
IN TEMPO: A Portrait of Duke Ellington by
Stuart Nicholson. A centennial celebration of his
life and times through personal accounts from his
wife, sister, son and associates. ML410.E44 N53
1999
*SHE
GOT GAME: My Personal Odyssey by Cynthia
Cooper. The two-time Most Valuable Player of the
Women’s National Basketball Association.
GV884.C63 A3 1999
*STREET
KINGDOM: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue
Posse by Douglas Century. Rap culture and gang
life on Brooklyn’s deadliest streets: the
story of Big K. HV6439.U7 N436
1999
TED
POSTON: Pioneer American Journalist by Kathleen
A. Hauke. The first black reporter to spend his
career at a mainstream daily newspaper,
Poston’s accomplishments include covering the
retrial of the Scottsboro Boys. PN4874.P595 H38
1998
TERRY
MCMILLAN: The Unauthorized Biography by Diane
Patrick. Life of the successful author who is
credited for changing the publishing industry.
PS3563.C3868 Z86 1999
THEY
CAN’T HIDE US ANYMORE by Richie Havens
with Steve Davidowitz. Reminiscences of the
60’s: all night hootenannies in Greenwich
Village with Bob Dylan, the 1965 Newport folk
Festival and Woodstock. ML420.H235 A3
1999
TO
KEEP THE WATERS TROUBLED: The Life of Ida B.
Wells by Linda O. McMurry. Wells’ crusade
against lynching and fierce struggle for equality
in a society where blacks, women and especially
black women had few rights. E185.97.W55 M38
1998
WATCH
ME FLY: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the
Woman I Was Meant to Be by Myrlie
Evers-Williams with Melinda Blau. How a sheltered
young wife who was forced into single parenthood by
an assassin’s bullet, completed her education,
supported her family and became the chairwoman of
the NAACP. E185.97.E95 A3 1999
WHITE
IS A STATE OF MIND: A Memoir by Melba Pattillo
Beals. One of the ‘Little Rock Nine’
tells of life after leaving Central High in her
senior year when segregationists offered $10,000
for her death. LC214.23.L56 B47 1999
This
selected list was compiled by: Kendall
Brothers, General Library, Teen Services,
Marylou Coveney, Dudley Branch, Joseph
Fisher, Dudley Branch, Jacqueline Hogan,
Grove Hall Branch, Janice Knight, Mattapan
Branch, Amy Manson, Chairperson, Connolly
Branch, Margaret Phillibert, General
Library, Adult Services, Amy Short, West Roxbury
Branch, Georgia Titonis, South
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