Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Crown, 2003. First edition; review copy.
Black Voices
The Undefeated.
Versify, 2019.
Cuz : Or The Life and Times of Michael A.
Liveright, 2017. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page.
Trombone Shorty.
Abrams, 2015. Later printing. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Caldecott Honor book.
The Heart of a Woman.
Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing.
Old Massa's People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story.
Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author.
Blues for Mister Charlie.
Dial Press, 1964. Book Club edition.
The Devil Finds Work.
Dial Press, 1976. First edition, first printing.
No Name in the Street.
Dial, 1972. First edition, first printing. Original white cloth.
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone.
Dial Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Original white cloth.
Slaves in the Family.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology.
Macmillan, 1972. Later printing. Black cloth, no dust jacket.
I Am Every Good Thing.
Nancy Paulsen, 2020. Later printing.
White is a State of Mind: A Memoir.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First edition; review copy.
The Image of the Black in Western Art, V, Part 1: The Twentieth Century: The Impact of Africa.
Harvard U. Press, 2014. First edition, first printing.
Competition in the Promised Land Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Princeton, 2017. First edition, first printing. Full blue cloth, in dust jacket.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years.
Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Rosa Parks.
Viking, 2000. Second printing.
You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks.
W. W. Norton, 1986. First edition, first printing. Signed by Thordis Simonsen.
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.
Convergent, 2018. Later printing.
Middle Passages: African-American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.
Penguin, 2006. First edition, first printing.
Patriotic Treason : John Brown and the Soul of America.
Free Press, 2006. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Beautiful Struggle : A Memoir Adapted For Young Adults
Delacorte Press, 2021. First edition, first printing.
Between the World and Me.
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Later printing.
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Through the Years.
Jackson: C. M. E. Church, 1949. Brown cloth, no dust jacket.