📚 Afro-americans

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with afro-americans on their catalogue record, first published between 1875 and 2000, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject afro-americans in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,121 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	1958	80
Autobiografía Malcolm X	Alex Haley	1965	70
The Negro	W. E. B. Du Bois	1915	66
Before the Mayflower	Lerone Bennett	1960	50
The education of the Negro prior to 1861	Carter Godwin Woodson	1915	41
The Negro in our history	Carter Godwin Woodson	1922	36
Notes of a Native Son	James Baldwin	1955	36
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers	Tom Wolfe	1970	33
Why We Can't Wait	Martin Luther King Jr.	1963	29
Blues people	Amiri Baraka	1963	28
The gift of black folk	W. E. B. Du Bois	1924	26
The story of the Jubilee Singers	J. B. T. Marsh	1875	18
Here I stand	Paul Robeson	1958	18
Fire-bell in the night	Oscar Handlin	1964	15
Speeches	Malcolm X	1965	15
The Negro question	George Washington Cable	1888	14
The new world of Negro Americans	Harold Robert Isaacs	1963	14
What manner of man	Lerone Bennett	1964	14
The future of the American Negro	Booker T. Washington	1899	12
A choice of weapons	Gordon Parks	1966	12
Black Macho	Michele Wallace	1979	11
The Black American	Leslie H. Fishel	1970	10
Amos Fortune, free man	Elizabeth Yates	1950	9
The Piano Lesson	August Wilson	1990	9
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970	Langston Hughes	1949	8
Hoodoo-conjuration-witchcraft-rootwork	Harry Middleton Hyatt	1970	8
Eyes on the prize	Juan Williams	1987	8
All God's children	Fox Butterfield	1995	8
The Black almanac	Alton Hornsby	1972	7
Until Today!	Iyanla Vanzant	2000	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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