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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. This Is Not For You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience by Richard Brown
  8. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
  9. Where You Are Is Not Who You Are by Ursula Burns
  10. Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court by Chris Paul
  11. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
  12. The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir by Kendrick Perkins
  13. We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane
  14. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
  15. My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
  16. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
  17. Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser
  18. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
  19. The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson
  20. Leaving Breezy Street by Brenda Myers-Powell
  21. Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
  22. I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream by Richard Antoine White
  23. Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom by Larry Miller
  24. Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt
  25. A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
  26. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis
  27. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
  28. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris
  29. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manuel
  30. Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own by Shirley Smith
  31. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill
  32. You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success by Al Roker
  33. The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner
  34. The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord