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History Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2020s

  1. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
  2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  3. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
  4. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper
  5. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
  6. The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still
  7. A History of the Black Baptist Church: I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired by Wayne E. Croft
  8. The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement by V.P. Franklin
  9. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
  10. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  11. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith
  12. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  13. The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade by A.E. Rooks
  14. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis) by Deborah Willis
  15. Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Kevin Young
  16. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
  17. Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Julian Bond
  18. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch
  19. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
  20. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor
  21. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
  22. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
  23. Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon
  24. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family by Bettye Kearse
  25. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
  26. Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues by Andrea Williams
  27. Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State by Edward Onaci
  28. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire by Robert E. Weems Jr.
  29. The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans by Jonathan Scott Holloway
  30. Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government by Gregorio “Greg” Francis
  31. When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold