Periods:
1800 - 1860
Brown, William Wells. Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrtive of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin (white author).
Wilson, Harriet E. Adams. Our Nig: Or Sketches From the Life of a Free Black.
1860 - 1899
Foote, Julia A. J. A Brand Plucked from the Fire.
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Contending Forces.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery.
1900 - 1929
Larsen, Nella. Passing.
Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.
McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem.
Toomer, Jean. Cane.
Walrond, Eric. Tropic Death.
1930 - 1939
Bontemps, Arna. Black Thunder.
Bontemps, Arna. God Sends Sunday.
Bontemps, Arna. Drums at Dusk.
Fisher, Rudolph. The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Jonah's Gourd Vine.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Moses Man of the Mountain.
Hurston, Zora Neale and Hughes, Langston. Mule Bone.
1940 - 1959
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Baldwin, James. Giovanni's Room.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Himes, Chester. If He Hollers Let Him Go.
Himes, Chester. Lonely Crusade.
Petry, Ann. The Street.
Petry, Ann. Country Place.
West, Dorothy. The Living Is Easy.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
1960 - 1979
Baraka, Amiri. Dutchman.
Bullins, Ed. New England Winter.
Bullins, Ed. The Fabulous Miss Marie.
Bullins, Ed. The Taking of Mis Janie.
El-Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik (Malcom X) and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of
Malcom X.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Rasin in the Sun.
Williams, John Alfred. The Man Who Cried I Am.
1980 - 1999
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Bambara, Toni Cade. Salt Eaters
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying.
Gaines, Ernest J. A Gathering of Old Men.Morrison, Toni. Sula
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Wilson, August. Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Wilson, August. The Piano Lesson.
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