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1. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin, et al 2. Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch 3. Parting the Waters : America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch 4. Remembering Slavery : African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom by Ira Berlin(Editor), et al 5. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 6. Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin 7. Africans in America : America's Journey Through Slavery by Charles Johnson, et al 8. Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack 9. All on Fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer 10. Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia Thomas 11. Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch 12. The Zinn Reader : Writings on Disobedience and Democracy by Howard Zinn 13. Killing the Dream : James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald L. Posner 14. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver 15. Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones 16. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 17. From Slavery to Freedom : A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss (Contributor) 18. A Promise of Justice : The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men by David Protess, et al 19. Slave Counterpoint : Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American histor by Philip D. Morgan 20. Ev'Ry Time I Feel the Spirit : 101 Best-Loved Psalms, Gospel Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the African-American Church by Gwendolin Sims Warren 21. Praying for Sheetrock : A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene 22. The Hairstons : An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek 23. A Shining Thread of Hope : The History of Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson 24. A Testament of Hope : The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by James Melvin Washington(Editor), Martin Luther, Jr. King 25. Modern Medea : A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by Steven Weisenburger 26. Black Mutiny : The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad by William A. Owens 27. Having Our Say : The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany, et al 28. Roll, Jordan, Roll : The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese 29. The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann 30. The Slaughter : An American Atrocity by Carroll Case, et al 31. 'Worse Than Slavery' : Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky 32. I Have a Dream : Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by James Melvin Washington(Editor), et al 33. Been in the Storm So Long : The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack 34. They Came Before Columbus by Ivan. Van Sertima 35. Exchanging Our Country Marks : The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael Angelo Gomez 36. Forbidden Fairways : African Americans and the Game of Golf by Calvin H. Sinnette 37. Black Jacks : African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster 38. The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie : An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past by Michael H. Cottman 39. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Jean Fagan Yellin(Photographer), et al 40. Before the Mayflower : A History of Black America by Lerone Jr. Bennett 41. The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner(Editor), Martin Luther, Jr. King 42. Colored People : A Memoir by Louis Gates, et al 43. Too Heavy a Load : Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by Deborah Gray White, Deborah Gray White 44. The Eyes on the Prize : Civil Rights Reader : Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990 by Clayborne Carson, et al 45. Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams 46. Central Avenue Sounds : Jazz in Los Angeles by Clora Bryant(Editor), et al 47. Strength to Love by Martin Luther, Jr. King 48. Silencing the Past : Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 49. The Peculiar Institution : Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Kenneth Milton Stampp 50. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History by Jeffrey C. Stewart 51. Like Men of War : Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau 52. Black Profiles in Courage : A Legacy of African American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, et al 53. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Linda Brent, et al 54. Black Valor : Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 by Frank N. Schubert 55. Arguing About Slavery : John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller 56. Special Moments in African-American History : 1955-1996 : The Photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony Magazine's Pulitzer Prize Winnter by Moneta Sleet(Photographer), et al 57. In Search of the Racial Frontier : African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 by Quintard Taylor 58. Three Negro Classics : Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk, the Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man. by Booker T. Washington, et al 59. Shades of Freedom : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Press (Oxford World's Classics , Vol 2) by A. Leon Higginbotham 60. When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis 61. Stories of Scottsboro by James E. Goodman 62. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow : Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones 63. Just My Soul Responding : Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations by Brian Ward 64. Rosewood: Like Judgment Day by Michael D'Orso, August Wilson 65. A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown 66. More Than Chattel : Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Blacks in the Diaspora) by David Barry Gaspar(Editor), Darlene Clark Hine (Editor) 67. White Women, Black Men : Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Elizabeth Hodes 68. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage 69. To 'Joy My Freedom : Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter 70. Eyewitness : A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American History by William Loren Katz 71. The Black Panther Party Reconsidered by Charles Jones(Editor) 72. To 'Joy My Freedom : Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter 73. A History of African-American Artists : From 1792 to the Present by Romare Bearden, Harry Henderson (Contributor) 74. W.E.B. Dubois : Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 75. Slave Religion : The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau