African-American/Black Writers

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Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie

James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain

Gwendolyn Brooks
collected poems

Frederick Douglass
Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nikki Giovanni
collected poems

Langston Hughes
Not Without Laughter
collected poems

Zora Neale Hurston
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Harriet A. Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows
Home to Harlem

Toni Morrison
Beloved
The Bluest Eye

Richard Wright
Black Boy
Native Son