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• Browne, Rose Butler. Love My Children; An Autobiography. New York, Meredith Press [1969].

• Franklin, John Hope, (1915-2009). Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

• Haywood, Harry, (1898-1985). Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist. Chicago : Liberator Press, 1978.

• Hilliard, David. This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [2001]. David Hilliard was the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, and this is his compelling eyewitness account of America's first black armed revolutionary movement.

• Himes, Chester B., (1909-1984). The Quality of Hurt : The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1972.

• King, Robert Hillary (b. 1942). From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King. Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2008.

• Lightfoot, Claude M., (1910-1991). Chicago Slums to World Politics: Autobiography of Claude M. Lightfoot. New York : New Outlook, [198-?].

• Johnson, Jesse J., (1914-2006). Ebony Brass; An Autobiography of Negro Frustration Amid Aspiration. New York, William-Frederick Press, 1967.

• Murray, Pauli, (1910-1985). Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1989, c1987.

• Norris, Clarence. The Last of the Scottsboro Boys: An Autobiography. New York : Putnam, 1979.

• Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), (1890-1980). The Man Who Cried Genocide: An Autobiography. New York, International Publishers [1971]

• Saunders, Ernest. The Autobiography of a Dual American: The Life Story of a Black American in a White society. New Haven, CT : Connecticut Afro-American Historical Society, c1979.

• Sellers, Cleveland, (1944- ). The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. New York, Morrow, 1973.

• Strode, Woody. Goal Dust: An Autobiography. Pioneering black athlete and film actor Woodrow Wilson Strode recalls his friendship with Jackie Robinson, his stint as professional wrestling's first black star, and his movie career.

• Thomas, Jesse O., (1885- ). My story in black and white; the autobiography of Jesse O. Thomas. New York, Exposition Press [1967].

• White, Walter Francis, (1893-1955). A Man Called White; The Autobiography of Walter White. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1948]

• Wilkins, Roger W., (1932- ). A Man's Life: An Autobiography. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.

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