African Americans
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African Americans
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African Americans
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Incoming Resources
- Hard road to freedom, the story of African America, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- Alice Walker banned, with an introduction by Patricia Holt
- Freedom is not enough, Black voters, Black candidates, and American presidential politics, Ronald W. Walters
- African American frontiers, slave narratives and oral histories, Alan Govenar
- The national black drama anthology, eleven plays from America's leading African-American theaters, edited by Woodie King, Jr
- Life on Mars, poems, Tracy K. Smith
- Black disability politics, Sami Schalk
- Tar baby, Toni Morrison
- Black writing from Chicago, in the world, not of it?, edited by Richard R. Guzman ; with a foreword by Carolyn M. Rodgers
- A slave no more, two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation, David W. Blight
- Gem of the ocean, August Wilson
- King remembered, Flip Schulke, Penelope Ortner McPhee
- Rivers of blood, years of darkness;, the unforgettable classic account of the Watts Riot,, By Robert Conot
- On the side of my people, a religious life of Malcolm X, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr
- Lincoln and the Negro
- African American humor, the best Black comedy from slavery to today, edited by Mel Watkins ; foreword by Dick Gregory
- Trouble in mind, Black southerners in the age of Jim Crow, Leon F. Litwack
- If Beale Street could talk, James Baldwin
- Another country, James Baldwin
- King, a biography, David Levering Lewis
- The garden thrives, twentieth-century African-American poetry, edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major
- Black crescent, the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez
- Black short story anthology, edited by Woodie King
- Origins of the dream, Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric, W. Jason Miller
- The defender, how the legendary black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama, Ethan Michaeli
- Racial innocence, unmasking Latino anti-Black bias and the struggle for equality, Tanya Katerà Hernández
- John Lewis, in search of the beloved community, Raymond Arsenault
- Three plays, August Wilson
- Eyes on the prize, a production of Blackside, Inc. ; [creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton]
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; introduction by Philip S. Foner
- Modern and contemporary Afro-American poetry, edited by Bernard W. Bell
- Harlem at war, the Black experience in WWII, Nat Brandt
- Classical Black nationalism, from the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey, edited by Wilson Jeremiah Moses
- The green pastures, a fable suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches, "Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun", by Marc Connelly
- God's trombones, seven Negro sermons in verse, by James Weldon Johnson ; drawings by Aaron Douglas ; lettering by C.B. Falls
- Black prophetic fire, in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf, Cornel West
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Marshall Frady
- The bluest eye, a novel, Toni Morrison ; [with a foreword by the author]
- Uncle Tom's cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
- New plays from the Black theatre, an anthology, edited and with an introduction by Ed Bullins
- I've got a home in glory land, a lost tale of the underground railroad, Karolyn Smardz Frost
- IndiVisible, African-Native American lives in the Americas, general editor, Gabrielle Tayac
- Jesse, the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, Marshall Frady
- All Aunt Hagar's children, Edward P. Jones
- Freedom's call, by Richard Breyer
- Remembering Jim Crow, African Americans tell about life in the segregated South, edited by William H. Chafe [and others]
- Black firsts, 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events, [edited by] Jessie Carney Smith
- Up from slavery,, an autobiography
- Notes from a colored girl, the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, Karsonya Wise Whitehead
Outgoing Resources
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