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Memoirs Published By Black Americans in Decade: 2020s

  1. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
  2. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
  3. Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
  4. The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph L. Reed Jr.
  5. The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish
  6. We’re Better Than This by Elijah Cummings
  7. Beaten Black And Blue: Being A Black Cop In An America Under Siege by Brandon Tatum
  8. This Is Not For You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience by Richard Brown
  9. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
  10. Where You Are Is Not Who You Are by Ursula Burns
  11. Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court by Chris Paul
  12. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
  13. The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir by Kendrick Perkins
  14. We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane
  15. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
  16. My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
  17. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
  18. Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser
  19. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
  20. The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson
  21. Leaving Breezy Street by Brenda Myers-Powell
  22. Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
  23. I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream by Richard Antoine White
  24. Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom by Larry Miller
  25. Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt
  26. A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
  27. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis
  28. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
  29. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris
  30. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manuel
  31. Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own by Shirley Smith
  32. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill
  33. You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success by Al Roker
  34. The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner
  35. The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord
  36. Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood by Jay Ellis