Books like Freedom's daughters by Lynne Olson

"Emancipation's Daughters examines black women political leaders who have challenged oppressive models of black womanhood since Emancipation, including slavery's assault on the black maternal body reflected in the Aunt Jemima stereotype. In spite of the abjection associated with black womanhood within the slave system of the antebellum era, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman defied it, established prominent public voices, and emerged as leaders and national emblems through their contributions to the struggle for freedom. They established foundations for the emergence of black women political leaders throughout the twentieth century and into the new millennium who have challenged this oppressive script. In the process, they unsettle models of U.S. identity premised on whiteness that have framed white women as the only acceptable national symbols within the conventional patriarchal scripts of national selfhood, and resist the devaluation of black womanhood on the basis of race, class, gender and sexuality"--

Peniel E. Joseph delivers a compelling biography of civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, tracing his rise from nonviolent activism to the iconic proponent of Black Power and exploring its impact on 1960s America.

An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.

Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer detailing her lifelong fight to empower the poor, secure political voice and economic self‑sufficiency for African Americans amid the segregated South.