African American Literature
By Jhonatan Marulanda & Santiago Arboleda
20th Century
Other Literary Works of the Century
Richard Wright: Native Son in 1940
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man in 1952
Alice Walker: The Color Purple in 1982
Toni Morrison: Beloved in 1987
Deep South to trace paths of institutionalized racism
Jean Toomer
Toomer's Cane in 1923
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Were Watching God in 1937
Fiction & Poetry by Black Writers
The Poet Claude Mckay
"If We Must Die" in 1917
Essays Concerning Social Mobility and Access to Employment & Education
Black Writers
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
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Dubois' Souls Of Black Folk in 1903
Washington's Up From Slavery in 1901
19th Century
Slave Narrative
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861
Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglas' Autobiography
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas in 1845
18th Century
First literary works published in USA
Slave Narratives
The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African in 1789
