The Bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama by Search SOUTHcat, ebrary, Springer ebooks, ACLS Humanities ebooks, and EBSCO eBook Collection for more books on African American biography and history. These are books the Marx Library owns that could be useful.
Malcolm X: a life of reinvention by 
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by 
A Fatherless Child by 
African American National Biography by 
Life upon These Shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008 by 
Black Profiles in Courage by 
African Americans Confront Lynching : strategies of resistance from the Civil War to the civil rights era by 
Lynching and Spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 by