Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave,
1845.
Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 1912.
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery.
Shorter Histories:
Bair, Barbara. Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans, 1880-1900
Mettger, Zak. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.
Ziff, Marsha. Reconstruction Following the Civil War.
Short Story Collections:
Chestnut, Charles Wadell. The Goophered Grapevine" (E-Text), 1887; "Po'
Sandy" (E-
Text), 1888; The Cojure Woman, 1899; The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories
of the
Color Line (E-Text), 1899; "The Bouquet" (E-Text), 1899; "Dave's
Neckliss" (E-Text),
1899; "Hot-Foot Hannibal" (E-Text), 1899; The House Behind the Cedars
(E-Text),
1900; The Marrow of Tradition, 1901; The Colonel's Dream, 1905.
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth. Contending forces: a romance illustrative of Negro
life North and South, 1900; Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Class
Prejudice, 1902; Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest,
1902.
Poetry:
Braithwaite, William Stanley. "The Watchers," "The House of
Falling Leaves," "Site
Vita."
Corrothers, James D. "Me 'n'Dunbar," "Paul Laurence Dunbar,"
"At the Closed Gate of
Justice."
Du Bois, W. E. B. "A Litany of Atlanta," "The Song of the Smoke."
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. Oak and Ivy, 1893; Majors and Minors, 1896; Lyrics
of Lowly
Life, 1896; Folks from Dixie, 1898; The Uncalled, 1898; Lyrics of the Hearthside,
1899;
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories, 1900; The Fanatics, 1901; The Sport
of the
Gods, 1902; Lyrics of Love and Laughter, 1903; In Old Plantation Days, 1903;
The
Heart of Happy Hollow, 1904; Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, 1905.
James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems , 1917
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (poetry), 1927
Johnson, James Weldon. "Sence You Went Away," "Lift Ev'ry
Voice and Sing," O
Black and Unknow Bards," "The Creation," "Go Down Death."
Nelson, Alice Moore Dunbar. "Violets," "I Sit and Sew," "April Is on the Way."
Novels:
Griggs, Sutton E. The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist, 1905.
Essays:
Cable, George Washington. The Negro Question, ed. Arlin Turner, 1955.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. "Men's Rights." 1869; "Some Testimony
in the Case." 1885;
"Women in Literature." 1891; "In the Gray Cabins of New England."
1895; "The Disease
of Money-Getting." 1902.
DuBois, W. E. B. "Critera of Negro Art," 1926, "The Souls of
Black Folk" 1903.
Johnson, James Weldon. Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. A Red Record.
Letters:
Grimke, Charlotte Forten. The Journals of Charlotte Forten.
The following web sites have been invaluable in constructing this list:
http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html and http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
. My
enduring gratitude to Paul Rueben at Cal State University, Stanislaus and
the publishers of The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature.
