Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 

Melba Pattillo Beals

I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire

Michael Bennett

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

Arna Bontemps

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered

Veronica Chambers

Mama’s Girl

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

Misty Copeland

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition

Michaela DePrince

Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer

Ger Duany w/Garen Thomas

Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Peace Activist Brown

Christine King Farris

Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family, and My Faith

Tom Feelings

Black Pilgrimage

Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)

James Haskins

Hamp: An Autobiography

Akilah Hughes

Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

Mae Jemison

Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life

George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

June Jordan

Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood 

Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha badele

When They Call You a Terrorist (YA Ed.): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World  

Julius Lester

On Writing for Children & Other People

John Lewis

March: Book Three

March: Book Two

March: Book One

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Proud: Living My American Dream

Walter Dean Myers

Bad Boy: A Memoir

Marilyn Nelson

How I Discovered Poetry 

Trevor Noah

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

Leslie Odom. Jr

Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning

Kwame Onwuachi

Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)

Aaron Philip

This Kid Can Fly: It’s About Ability (NOT Disability) 

Sidney Poitier

This Life

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness

Dorothy Marie Rice

The Seventeenth Child

Faith Ringgold

We Flew Over the Bridge: Memoirs of Faith Ringgold

Glenn (“Doc”) Rivers

Those Who Love the Game: Glenn “Doc” Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere

Jackie Robinson

I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Marcus Samuelsson

Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life  

Ilyasah Shabazz

Growing Up X

Natasha Tarpley

Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion

Clifton Taulbert

The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son 

When Little Became Much: A Journey from Obscurity to Significance

The Invitation

Watching Our Crops Come In  

The Last Train North

Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored

Leon Walter Tillage

Leon’s Story

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child