Top 5 Biographies On Black Individuals

The Dot Lit
The Dot Lit
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2 min readJun 5, 2020

Here is our list:

5. This Little Light of Mine

Kay Mills was an American journalist and author. When she joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 she became one of the first women on its editorial board. Mills also revived the nearly-lost stories of women journalists and civil rights icons.

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4. Black Boy

Richard Nathaniel Wright was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, who suffered discrimination and violence in the South and the North.

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3. Assata

Assata Olugbala Shakur is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted as an accomplice of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.

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2. Dreams from my Father

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States.

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1. Malcolm X

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his staunch and controversial black racial advocacy, and for his time spent as the vocal spokesperson of the Nation of Islam.

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