ANGELOU, MAYA
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM H
Sounder

BALDWIN, JAMES
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Another Country
Going to Meet the Man

BAMBARA, TONI CADE
Gorilla, My Love

BARAKA, AMIRI (LEROI JONES)
The Amiri Baraka Reader

BROOKS, GWENDOLYN
Blacks

BUTLER, OCTAVIA
Kindred
Fledgling

CHILDRESS, ALICE
Trouble in Mind

COOPER, ANNA JULIA
A Voice from the South

CRUSE, HAROLD
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

CULLEN, COUNTEE
On These I Stand

DELANY, MARTIN R.
Blake; Or the Huts of America

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
The Heroic Slave

DOVE, RITA
Thomas and Beulah

DU BOIS, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk

DUMAS, HENRY
Play Ebony, Play Ivory

ELLISON, RALPH
Invisible Man

EQUIANO, OLAUDAH
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa

EVANS, MARI
I Am the Black Woman

FULLER, CHARLES
A Soldier’s Play

GAINES, ERNEST J.
Lesson Before Dying
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Gathering of Old Men

GARVEY, MARCUS
Message to the People

GRIMKE, CHARLOTTE FORTEN
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke

HALEY, ALEX
Roots

HANSBERRY, LORRAINE
A Raisin in the Sun

HARPER, FRANCES E. W.
Complete Poems

HARPER, MICHAEL
Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems

HIMES, CHESTER
If He Hollers Let Him Go

HUGHES, LANGSTON
Mulatto
The Big Sea , selected poems
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Nation 23 (June 1926): 69294
The Best of Simple

HULL, GLORIA T., PATRICIA BELL SCOTT, AND BARBARA SMITH, eds.
But Some of Us Are Brave

HURSTON, ZORA NEALE
Mules and Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God

JACOBS, HARRIET
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON
The Autobiography of an ExColored Man
God’s Trombones

KENNEDY, ADRIENNE
Funnyhouse of a Negro

LARSEN, NELLA
Quicksand
Passing

LORDE, AUDRE
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

MCKAY, CLAUDE
Home to Harlem

MORRISON, TONI
Beloved
Sula
Song of Solomon

MOSLEY, WALTER
47
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
The Man In My Basement

NAYLOR, GLORIA
The Women of Brewster Place

PETRY, ANN
The Street

REED, ISHMAEL
Mumbo Jumbo
New and Collected Poems 19642006

SANCHEZ, SONIA
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems

SCHUYLER, GEORGE S.
Black Empire

SHANGE, NTOZAKE
for colored girls who have considered suicide /when the rainbow is enuf

TOOMER, JEAN
Cane

WALKER, ALICE
The Color Purple

WALKER, DAVID
David Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles

WALKER, MARGARET
For My People
Jubilee

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Up from Slavery

WHEATLEY, PHYLLIS
Selected poems
Complete Works

WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR
Brothers and Keepers

WILLIAMS, CHANCELLOR
The Destruction of Black Civilization

WILLIAMS, JOHN A.
The Man Who Cried I Am

WILSON, AUGUST
Fences
The Piano Lesson

WRIGHT, RICHARD
Native Son
Black Boy

X, MALCOLM & ALEX HALEY
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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