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ANGELS
ALONG THE WAY: MY LIFE WITH THE HELP FROM ABOVE by
Della Reese with Franklin Lett
and Mim Eichler.
A-TRAIN:
MEMOIRS OF A TUSKEGEE AIRMAN by Lieutenant
Colonel Charles W. Dryden, USAF (Retired).
From segregation to integration, life as a black
career officer in the U.S. military.
BAYARD
RUSTIN: TROUBLES I'VE SEEN: A BIOGRAPHY by
Jervis Anderson.
The behind-the-scenes strategist and organizer of
the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on
Washington.
BETWEEN
EACH LINE OF PAIN AND GLORY: MY LIFE STORY by
Gladys Knight.
Despite terrible obstacles, she rose form the
"chitlin' circuit" and Motown to
superstardom.
DOROTHY
DANDRIDGE: A BIOGRAPHY by Donald
Bogle.
The tragic life of the first African-American to be
nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
THE
HAYGOODS OF COLUMBUS: A LOVE STORY by Wil
Haygood.
They left a dead-end life of poverty in the South
for the promised land of jobs and better
opportunites in the North -- the history of his
family by a reporter for the Boston
Globe.
HAVE
NO FEAR: THE CHARLES EVERS STORY by Charles
Evers & Andrew Szanton.
"...fighting for civil rights and making a lot of
money."
LIFE
ON THE LINE by Faye Wattleton.
Her mother was a fundamentalist preacher, yet she
became the president of Planned
Parenthood.
*LITTLE
X: GROWING UP IN THE NATION OF ISLAM by
Sonsyrea Tate.
Daily life as a submissive black
princess.
LOUIS
ARMSTRONG: AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFE by Laurence
Bergreen.
Excessive in lifestyle but conservative in
philosophy: "I got pretty near everything I wanted
because I worked for it."
MY
BROTHER: A MEMOIR by Jamaica Kincaid.
This continues the re-examination of her familial
relationships begun in The Autobiography of My
Mother.
AN
ORIGINAL MAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
by Claude Andrew Clegg.
A divine appointee or a supremacist hate monger?
The man and his role in the evolution of the Nation
of Islam and growth of black
nationalism.
ROSA
LEE: A MOTHER AND HER FAMILY IN URBAN AMERICA by
Leon Dash.
Living in the shadow of the White House, yet
trapped in the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, drugs,
and violence -- one woman's story.
THE
SEVERAL LIVES OF CHESTER HIMES by Edward
Margolies & Michel Fabre.
The expatriate author of Cotton Comes to
Harlem.
SPEAKING
TRUTH TO POWER by Anita Hill.
Partly her memoir, partly her analysis and
assessment -- the 1991 Clarence Thomas
hearings.
STRAIGHT,
NO CHASER: HOW I BECAME A GROWN-UP BLACK WOMAN by
Jill Nelson.
Personal anecdotes and essays on the black American
feminist struggle.
SUNDAY
IS MY DAY by Reverend Irving Fryar.
How the bad boy of the New England Patriots stopped
his self-destructive behavior and renewed his life
in a small church in Roxbury.
TRESPASSING:
MY SOJOURN IN THE HALLS OF PRIVILEGE by
Gwendolyn M. Parker.
A graduate of Harvard and NYU Law School, she
relinquished her successful corporate law career to
become a novelist.
*TUPAC
SHAKUR by the Editors of Vibe
Magazine.
"He was a lightning rod, a screen onto which
millions of people projected their feelings about
rap, about race, and about the young black man in
American today."
WOUNDS
OF PASSION: A WRITING LIFE by bell
hooks.
The feminist author continues her memoir begun in
last year's Bone Black.
*Recommended
for Teens
This
list is dedicated to the memory of KAREN L.
WILLIAMS. A frequent contributor to Black
Is...
This
selected list was compiled by: Moonyean
Carlton, General Library, Adult Reader and
Information Services; Marylou Coveney, Dudley
Branch; Janice Knight, Mattapan Branch; Amy Manson, Jamaica Plain Branch;
Sarah Markell, Charlestown Branch; Marilyn
Poindexter, General Library, Teen Services;
Jacquelyn Hogan, Chairperson, Grove Hall/Egleston
Square Branch Libraries. Boston Public
Library, 1998.
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