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Non-Fiction Books on the Black American Middle, Upper, and Elite Class By Black Americans

  1. Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham
  2. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany
  3. Negroland by Margo Jefferson
  4. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye
  5. Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America by E. Franklin Frazier
  6. The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America by Lawrence C. Ross
  7. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins
  8. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
  9. Black Faces in High Places: 10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There by Randal D. Pinkett
  10. Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy
  11. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart
  12. Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire by Herman J. Russell
  13. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement by Paula J. Giddings
  14. In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street by Gregory S. Bell
  15. The Herndons: An Atlanta Family by Carole Merritt
  16. Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo
  17. John Merrick a Biographical Sketch: Durham, North Carolina’s Black Wall Street by R. McCants Andrews
  18. Black Society by Gerri Major
  19. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class by Mary Pattillo
  20. History of the Black Dollar by Angel Rich
  21. Market Women: Black Women Entrepreneurs: Past, Present, and Future by Cheryl A. Smith
  22. The Anatomy of a Corporate Lynching by Charles Ford 4th
  23. Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 by Willard B. Gatewood Jr.
  24. From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances by Vershawn Ashanti Young
  25. Starting From Scratch: The Humble Beginnings of a Two Billion-Dollar Enterprise by John Barfield
  26. Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street by Blake Hill-Saya
  27. The New Black Middle Class by Bart Landry
  28. The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires by Dennis Kimbro
  29. To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) by Erica L. Ball
  30. John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford
  31. Sense of Place: Birminghams Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930 by Lynne B. Feldman
  32. Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire by Shane White
  33. The Black Professional Middle Class: Race, Class, and Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Eric S. Brown
  34. Pennies to Dollars: The Story of Maggie Lena Walker by Muriel Miller Branch
  35. The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990 by Charles T. Banner-Haley
  36. A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921 by Theresa A. Hammond
  37. Black Freemasonry and Middle-Class Realities (University of Missouri Studies ; V. 69) by Loretta J. Williams
  38. The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson’s Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia by Julie Winch
  39. Philadelphia’s Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848 by Julie Winch
  40. Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre: The Creation and Destruction of America’s Wealthiest African American Neighborhood by Charles River Editors
  41. The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Volume 1) by Cyprian Clamorgan
  42. Black Wall Street: The History of the Greenwood District Before the Tulsa Race Riot by Charles River Editors
  43. The Other Brahmins: Boston’s Black Upper Class, 1750-1950 by Adelaide M. Cromwell
  44. The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Oliver Walker
  45. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision by Tamara L. Brown
  46. Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain’s Greatest Monarch by Kate Williams
  47. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation’s Capital, 1880-1920 by Jacqueline M. Moore
  48. The History of Black Business : The Coming of America’s Largest African-American-Owned Businesses by Martin K. Hunt
  49. The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South by Edward Ball
  50. Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class by Patricia Banks
  51. Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
  52. The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty by Lawrence Otis Graham
  53. Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America by Tonya Bolden
  54. Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island by Jill Nelson
  55. Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do by Charles Weldon Wadelington
  56. Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
  57. Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire by Reginald F. Lewis
  58. One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew by Spencie Love
  59. Growing Up in Washington, D.C. by D. C. Historical Society of Washington
  60. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City by Craig D. Townsend
  61. The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story by Yvonne S. Thornton
  62. The Spirit of a Place Called Meharry: The Strength of Its Past to Shape the Future by Charles W. Johnson
  63. Nineteenth Century Memphis Families of Color 1850 1900 by Roberta Church
  64. The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the Twenty-First Century by Lois Benjamin
  65. Opting Out: Losing the Potential of America’s Young Black Elite by Maya A. Beasley
  66. Black Ice: A Memoir by Lorene Cary
  67. Daring to Educate by Yolanda L. Watson
  68. In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 (Volume 1) by Zachery R. Williams
  69. Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style by Karen E. Hudson
  70. Paul R. Williams Architect by Karen E. Hudson
  71. Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
  72. The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader by William Sanders Scarborough
  73. The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship by William Sanders Scarborough
  74. The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson’s Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia by Julie Winch
  75. Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York by Judith Wellman
  76. Bourgeois Blues: An American Memoir by Jake Lamar
  77. Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960 by Carol Anderson
  78. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  79. Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 by Martin Summers
  80. Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company by Walter B. Weare
  81. Black Greek-letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun by Gregory S. Parks
  82. Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence by Gregory S. Parks
  83. A Black Man’s Journey from Sharecropper to College President: The Life and Work of William Johnson Trent, 1873-1963 by Judy Scales-Trent
  84. Roberta’s Boys: Four Pitts Brothers of Macon, GA by Ann B. Carlson
  85. Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer by Clifton R. Wharton
  86. The Little Professor of Piney Woods by Beth Day
  87. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
  88. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
  89. Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty by Jonathan Greenberg
  90. Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford by Barbara Beeching
  91. Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South by Hugh Pearson
  92. A Lawyer’s Life by Johnnie Cochran