John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania) 26 George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana 20 Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture 19 Lindsay Patterson Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 18 Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania) 16 St. Martin's Press/Tor Archive (Brown University) 7 Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 6 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 5 Haskins, James, 1941-2005 5 Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection 5 Obichere Collection 5 Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 5 Angelou, Maya 4 Ritz, David 4 Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 4 Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3 Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009 3 Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 3 Gilbert, Olive 3 Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985 3 Obama, Barack 3 Painter, Nell Irvin 3 Paisner, Daniel 3 University of Ghana Institute of African Studies 3 hooks, bell, 1952-2021 3 Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- 2 Albro, Benjamin T. 2 Anderson, Ho Che 2 Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 2 see all ...

Biography Biographies 379 Autobiographies 194 History 84 Autobiography 43 Juvenile literature 17 collective biographies 15 Slave narratives 13 Comic books, strips, etc 10 Correspondence 7 Pictorial works 7 Autobiographie 6 Criticism, interpretation, etc 6 Essays 6 Juvenile works 6 Personal narratives 6 Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) 6 Anti-slavery works 5 Biographie 5 Personal Narrative 5 Personal correspondence 5 Anecdotes 4 Association copies (Provenance) 4 Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) 4 Jazz 4 Portraits 4 autobiographies (literary works) 4 Autographs (Provenance) 3 Bibliography 3 Biographical fiction 3 see all ...

United States 349 Ghana 34 South Africa 34 Southern States 24 États-Unis 17 New York (State) 16 Africa 12 New York 12 Nigeria 12 North Carolina 11 California 8 Louisiana 8 Maryland 7 Mississippi 7 Texas 7 Alabama 6 Arkansas 6 Georgia 6 Great Britain 6 Harlem (New York, N.Y.) 6 South Carolina 6 USA 6 Washington (D.C.) 6 Europe 5 France 5 Kenya 5 New York (N.Y.) 5 Virginia 5 Connecticut 4 Durham (N.C.) 4 see all ...