African American-Poets, Digests & Autobiographical Authors Born Before 1950-2
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- The Essential June Jordan – Black Arts Movement -poet poems
- Saundra Sharp IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE 1972 Black Arts Movement poet
- Ruby-Primus-Frazier RUBY”S BLACK EMERALDS 1st ed 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- Rosa Guy was born in 1928 in Trinidad, and came to the United States in 1932.
- Ronald Fair EXCERPTS 1st ed 1975 Paul Breman Chapbook Chicago Black Arts Poetry
- Ron Welburn-PERIPHERIES- SELECTED POEMS-1972-1ST ED-FINE-AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
- Olean Bess MIXED FEELINGS Black Arts Movement, Poetry & Songs
- DEVIL’S MOUTH-FIRST POEMS-1975-
- Paulette White LOVE POEM TO A BLACK JUNKIE 1st ed 1975 Black Arts Mvmt Detroit
- ‘Pearl Cleage Lomax -WE-DONT-NEED-NO-MUSIC-1972-BLACK-POETRY.Y
- Norman Jordan DESTINATION- ASHES 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry West Va. Author
- Nikki Giovanni b. 1943 Poet
- Mujahada GET BACK INSANITY 1st ed 1975 Black Arts Movement Poetry Roxbury Author
- Lyn-SINGING SADNESS HAPPY- POEMS-1972–AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
- Howard Odum – Rainbow Round My Shoulder 1928 Author
- Hal Woodrum African American
- Joseph Mason Andrew Cox-LAND DIMLY SEEN (1975)-1ST ED, BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT-POEMS
- Leona Nicholas WELCH – Poetry Black Gibraltar 1st Edition 1971
- James S Allen – Negro Liberation 1932
- 1938- LiL Hannibal- Hardbound-Children’s Book by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- February 9, 1944 (age 79), Alice Walker African American
- tozake Shange ( EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-gay; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet.
- NORTH INTO FREEDOM-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MALVIN FREE NEGRO 1795-1880 in DJ 1966
- BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER- HISTORY OF NEGRO IN AMERICA 1619-1964 BY LERONE BENNETT,JR
- SENEGAMBIAN SIZZLES NEGRO STORIES BY E V WHITE SIGNED 1948 African American
- Paul Crump- Burn Killer Burn! (1962) 1st Edition, Black Death-Row Inmate.
- aynter HORSE & BUGGY DAYS WITH UNCLE SAM 1943 African American Memoir
- Redmond RIVER OF BONES & FLESH & BLOOD 1st ed 1971 [Black Arts Movement]
- Salvador PAUL CUFFE THE BLACK YANKEE 1859-1817 1st ed 1969
- Amelia Swift-CHILD OF CAPRICORNE-1973-AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELLA
- True Likeness- Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936. 1st ed., 1986
- THE BLACK POET…GEORGE MOSES HORTON, A NORTH CAROLINA SLAVE 1966
- The Autobiography of Clark Terry by Terry, Clark
- Ann Petry-COUNTRY PLACE-1947-AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL
- Augusta Wheadon THE NEGRO 1863 to 1963 Scarce History, Af-Am Woman Author
- Belisle + Novack – BLACK SLAVERY & CAPITALISM Education for Socialists SWP 1968
- Benjamin Caldwell-POSTER- JOURNAL OF BLACK POETRY PRESS-1970-AFROFUTURISM
- Ed Bullins – The Duplex A Black Love Fable in Four Movements 1st Edition 1971
- Earl Cash-JOHN A. WILLIAMS- EVOLUTION OF A BLACK WRITER-1975
- Cuthbert THE ROBBED HEART- A NOVEL 1945 [Black – white love story
- Corrie & Roberta Haines-AS I SEE IT-1974–BLACK POETRY
- Elouise Loftin-BAREFOOT NECKLACE- POEMS-1975-1ST ED-NEAR FINE-BLACK ARTS POETRY
- Jesse O. Thomas. My Story in Black and White- Autobiography. 1st ed. 1967.
- Jymi Jones-THE FRUIT THEORY-1973-1ST ED-FINE-NEAR FINE-BLACK ARTS POETRY-PHILLY
- Hiram Nall UP FROM THE DEAD LEVEL 1st ed 1974 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- No School- by-Moseley Rita Odom-b1950s-
- Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005) was the youngest member of the Society of Umbra, predecessor of the Black Arts Movement.
- Ahmed Alhamisi-HOLY GHOSTS (1972)–BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT-POETRY
- AMIRI BAKARAS- IT’S NATION TIME-1970-BLACK POETRY
- Arthur-Graham-THE-CAPTAIN-HIS-CREW-1st-ed-Black-Arts-Movement-Childrens-Lit
- Clarence Major. Private Line. 1st ed. 1971. Black Arts Movement author
- Clarence Major. Emergency Exit. 1979. Black Arts Movement
- Chester Fuller-SPEND SAD SUNDAYS SINGING SONGS TO SASSY SISTERS-1974 Poetry
- Chaka Shango, Horace Coleman BLACK GIFTS FOR A BLACK CHILD Broadside Black Arts Movement Press
- David L. Rice -POEMS-Authors-1st-Book-Prison-Poetry-
- Dee Phillips Sims-PARTS OF DEE-1978-AFRICAN AMERICAN POET
- Donnie Ree RICKS – Inside Out 1st Edition 1976 Poetry
- Ed Bullins-THE GENTLEMAN CALLER [IN] ILLUMINATIONS 5-1971-1ST ED-BLACK ARTS POET
- Evelyn Early, Elliott Pinkney – Heart & Soul – First Edition, 1974
- red Hord AFTER HOURS 1st ed 1974 Chicago Black Arts Movement
- George Barlow-GABRIEL-1974-AFRICAN AMERICAN POET
- Gersami-BECKONING FROM MY SPIRITS-1977 AFRICAN AMERICAN POET
- Hutch Waters-AFRICA IN BROOKLYN (1971)-1ST ED, FINE-BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, POETRY
- Wild Blessings- The Poetry of Lucille Clifton by Hilary Holladay
- Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an American writer and poet.
- James L. Canada-IF I WERE TO TELL YOU (1973)-1ST ED-AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY-
- Jas Thompson FIRST FIRE 1957-1960 1st ed 1970 Paul Breman Chapbook Detroit Poet
- Jeremy Randolph POEMS II 1st ed 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry, Texas Author
- John R. Jackson-SOULFUL SOUNDS (1973)-1ST ED-BLACK ARTS POETRY-FLORIDA
- BIRTHRIGHT, by T.S. Stribling – 1922 Black Americana Civil Rights Racial Issues
- Mary Frances Berry (born February 17, 1938) is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist
- WILLIE DIXON-PREACHER OF THE BLUES (AFRICAN AMERICAN
- The Masquerade -, Oscar Micheaux
- History-changing book by Obama’s father
- Charles Wright, Novelist, . 1947-2022 wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973
- William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 – c. 1879) was an African American writer, minister and abolitionist who worked on the Underground Railroad.
- William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 – c. 1879) -2
- GEORGE JACKSON Soledad Brother BLACK PANTHER 1971 TRIBUTE Killed In San Quentin letters b 1941
- Evangeline Grant REDDING -Nothing The Mentality of the Black Woman -2
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm -2
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm -5
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm
- Evangeline Grant REDDING – Nothing The Mentality of the Black Woman African American
- James C. Kilgore-A TIME OF BLACK DEVOTION-1971-1ST ED-FINE COPY-LOUISIANA POET
- Elouise Loftin-BAREFOOT NECKLACE poet
- Ed Bullins-TO RAISE THE DEAD & FORTELL THE FUTURE (1970)-1ST ED-BLACK ARTS POET
- Corrie & Roberta Haines-AS I SEE IT–BLACK POETRY
- Negro Poet of the French Caribbean book writing
- Zulu Woman- (1897–1987) was an American writer, lecturer, and suffragist
- Black Americana Autobiography of James L. Smith 1st Ed book 1881 ex-slave
- DUST OF SILENCE-OLIVER PITCHER 1958 POETRY-AFRICAN-AMERICAN-PLAYRIGHT
- Open Wide The Freedom Gates- A Memoir- by Dorothy Height
- RACE AND REMEMBRANCE- A MEMOIR (AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE By Arthur L. Johnson
- Synthia Saint James (born February 11, 1949) is an American visual artist, author, keynote speaker, educator and actor i
- Something Must Be Done- One Black Woman’s Story by Peggy Wood African American author
- Wanda Coleman (b. 1946 –, 2013) American poet. She was known as -the L.A. Blueswoman-
- Leslie Lacy -Native Daughter- African American Author
- Remembering Ralph Hayes- African American Historian
- Poems by a Slave George Moses Horton – Poet
- On The Shoulders of Giants b. 1947 Harlem, NYC author
- My Life and an Era- The Autobiography of an African American Lawyer -author
- Mirror to America – The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
- Africa Education Memoir A. Folumbo I. DeWalt 1920s
- Joseph Holston Short Stories African American
- Dapper Dan – Made in Harlem author
- Poems From Prison ~ Etheridge Knight , 1931 – 1991) was an African-American poet Broadside Press Detroit
- 1972 Glowchild and other Poems by Ruby Dee poet
- Black Smiles or the Sunny Side of Sable Life. Franklin Henry Bryant (1877–1909) African American Author
- AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR JUDGE INEZ SMITH
- Dorothy West
- Zora Neale Hurston Novelist Harlem Renaissance
- Richard Wright -3
- Richard Wright first novel ”Black Boy” article-3
- Richard Wright -4
- Richard Wright -5
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN GHETTO BOY – THE 1950’S By Tony Rose -author
- Resisting Jim Crow- The Autobiography of Dr. John A. McFall Author
- Jet Magazine 1955 Mary Vroman – writer
- RITA DOVE- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
- GEORGE CAIN – AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER 1970
- Being Somebody and Black Besides – George Nesbitt author
- he Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman – Harlem Ren. author
- Cant Stand Still- Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance – singer
- THIS WAITING FOR LOVE- Helene Johnson – Poet
- The Big Sea- An Autobiograph poet
- Black Arts Movement. Ed Bullins (1935-2021) was the playwright in residence- African American playwright
- Chasing Me to My Grave- Wilfred Rembert artist author
- Gerald W Barrax – Another Kind of Rain 1970 African American Poet
- Black Orpheus- A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature, no.10,
- Black Orpheus- A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature, no.10,
- I Dare Say- A Gerald Horne Reader – historian b.1949
- Race and the University- A Memoir by Henderson- Author
- American Daughter Era Bell Thompson SC 1986 Black Experience No. Dakota Autobio -author
- Black Smiles- Antique Americana Book 1903 Franklin Henry Bryant Bryant (1877-1909) was the first black Adventist to author a book and the first black to earn a law degree from the University
- The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten -author
- TALKING SHIT- ABOUT A SNOW WHITE DOVE by GARLAND F. WEST 1972 poet b1944-202
- Speaking on Genocide H Rap Brown b. 1943
- Malchus M Seuell 1964 African American Poetry
- LITTLE ROCK NINE INTEGRATION- AUTOGRAPH MELBA BEALS- MEMOIR
- Idabelle Yeiser Poet, educator (born c. 1900, died 1954)
- Howard Thurman – philosopher, educator
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FUGITIVE NEGRO- HIS ANTI-SLAVE LABOURS By Samuel Ringgold
- Autobiographies of a Black Couple of the Greatest Generation Black Authors – Anderson’s
- American Negro Poetry-book cover
- A Dancer in the Revolution
- NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines December 1944
- NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines February 1944
- NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines March 1944
- Negro Digest -magazine June 1944
- NEGRO DIGESTS 1940’s
- Negro Digest Magazine John H. Johnson June 1943
- Leslie Pinckney Hill (11880 – 1960) American educator, writer, and community leader.
- Black American Short Stories
- NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines May 1946
- NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines November 1945
- Rev Josiah Henson -author
- LAYING DOWN MY BURDENS By Brenda L. Thomas -author
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN – book cover
- SAMUEL HALL, 47 YEARS A SLAVE – Author
- Vintage NEGRO DIGEST Black World Magazines Sept. 1949
- Negro Digest 1947-3
- Negro Digest 1944 -3
- Negro Digest 1944 -4
- Negro Digest 1944 -4
- Negro Digest 1944 -5
- Negro Digest 1944 -6
- Negro Digest 1944 -7
- Negro Digest 1944 -8
- Negro Digest 1944 -9
- Negro Digest 1944 -10.
- Negro Digest 1944 -11
- Negro Digest 1944 -12
- Negro Digest 1944 -14
- Charles Earland Poet 1924-199 – record- Black Talk
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – poet, lecturer
- RACE AND REMEMBRANCE- A MEMOIR By Arthur L. Johnson – author
- NEGRO DIGEST World Magazines March 1945
- The Substance of Things Hoped for- Samuel DeWitt Proctor -author
- SISTER- AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE By Sylvia Bell White- author
- RACE AND THE UNIVERSITY- A MEMOIR By George Henderson -author
- Negro Digest Sept. 1944
- Negro Digest Jan. 1944
- NEGRO DIGEST August 1945
- My Life Story by Joe Louis lst Ed. 1947
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs – author
- Education Uplift Activism Chicago 1930s Ross D. Brown author
- Christ in Alabama Poetry Langston Hughes -Contempo Magazine
- A Jazz Odyssey- The Life of Oscar Peterson – author
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, October 1949
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, April 1947
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1946
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, July 1943
- e Journal of Negro History, Vol. XVI, No. 4, October 1931
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XI, No. 3, July 1926
- The Journal of Negro History, Vol. IX, No. 3, July 1924
- The Journal Of Negro History Volume XV, No. 3 July 1930 –
- JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOL. XXXVII NO. 1 January 1952 –
- Jan. 1957 ‘The Journal of Negro History’ Vol XLII No 1
- April 1953 ‘The Journal of Negro History’ Vol 38 No 2
- The Black Studies Reader
- BARBARA JORDAN A Self Portrait ~Texas U.S. Senator -author
- WILLOW WEEP FOR ME- By Meri Nana-ama Danquah- Ghanian American – author
- Efton F Geary -Reflections of a Black Man born 1940 – poet
- POEMS OF COLOR BY MARY ALBERTA BACON 1887-1968 BLACK AMERICANA 1948 – poet
- The Southern Workman November 1917 & January 1922
- he Southern Workman Dec. 1920 & Jan. 1922
- he Southern Workman-Aug. 1923 & July 1917
- The Southern Workman June 1918 & August 1929
- Negro Digest Oct. 1944
- EGRO DIGEST VOL13 #1 NOV 1961
- David L Rice POEMS Author’s Prison Poetry
- Bryant Rollins POETRY FOR MY FRIENDS 1973
- Ruby Primus Frazier RUBY’S BLACK EMERALDS 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- Jeremy Randolph POEMS II 1st ed 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry, Texas Author
- Fulani SECOND THE EMOTION 1974 Black Arts Movement Poetry Brooklyn
- Dorothy June Watkins THOUGHTS & THINGS Dallas 1976 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- William B Jackson BOOK 1, ed New York 1971 Black Arts Movement
- W.Calvin McCain-PIECES OF PEACE- CONCEPTS OF A POET (1974)-
- Ruby Primus Frazier RUBY’S BLACK EMERALDS 1971 Black Arts Movement
- Ron Welburn-PERIPHERIES- SELECTED POEMS-1972-
- Ossie Guffy & Caryl Ledner. Ossi- Autobiography of a Black Woman
- Merrel Daniel Booker-CRY AT BIRTH (1971)-BLACK ARTS POETRY
- Marvin X-THE BLACK BIRD- PARABLE FOR BLACK CHILDREN-1968-
- L.D.W. [pseud] ON MY JOURNEY NORTH- 1979 African-American Autobiography
- Clarence Major. Emergency Exit. 1979. Black Arts Movement
- POETRY Book BLACK Poet First Ed Jackson
- ADA – book cover author
- Mari Evans African American Poet Black Arts Movement
- Annette O. Shands BLACK VOLUME 1973 Black Arts Movement Poetry New York
- Mari Evans African American Poet Black Arts Movement
- Balm For Gilead – book cover
- Robert Eleazer-SINGERS IN THE DAWN-1943– POETRY
- It Was Not…All in My Mind- A Memoir by Maxine Brown -author
- Life’s Journey Through the Eyes of a Poet by John Weldon Evans
- Sam Cornish-SAM’S WORLD-1978- BLACK ARTS POETRY
- Clarence Maurice Mitchell Jr. (1911 –1984) was a civil rights activist and the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years.
- James Hudson (1903–1980) was a philosopher, theologian, Baptist minister civil rights leader
- Cecelia Louise Hatshepsut, 1940-2020 author
- The Lost Daughter -A Memoir – book cov r author
- Race and Remembrance -A Memoir- Arthur L. Johnson
- George Henderson -RACE AND THE UNIVERSITY- A MEMOIR -author
- Revolution- A Poem by Ebon Dooley
- JOURNAL OF BLACK POETRY VOLUME 1 NO 11 1969…
- Wicked Enchantment- Selected Poems Wanda Coleman
- Black Wings- The Life of an African American Aviation Pioneer by William J. Powell author
- JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ~ Along This Way- The Autobiography, 1933,
- Oaklander- Jerri Lange (1925 – 2021) was a 3rd generation pioneering Bay Area TV broadcaster, producer, author
- Black Ice- By Lorene Cary – author
- . Dottie Dodgion (born Dorothy Rosalie Giaimo- , 1929 – 2021) was an American jazz drummer and singer.
- New Negro Poets – Langston Hughes
- Thelma Williams Published poet, co-author of an article in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal,
- Joy Goddess – A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance,
- Melvin Beaunorus Tolson(1898- -poet
- My Life with Martin Luther King by Coretta Scott King – author
- Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author.
- Sam Cornish – My Daddy’s People were Very Black – poet
- Raymond R Patterson- 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man -poet
- Lloyd McNeill – Black Line Poems
- Angry Black-Woman Poems and Musings by Angie Wallace – author
- COMMUNIST COUNCILMAN FROM HARLEM- author
- Wendell Sexton-WHY SHOULD I LOVE WHITE MAN author
- SISTER- author MCM
- Dudley Randall love you African-American poetry
- Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. poet, writer
- Poems by a Slave- George Moses Horton
- Les Brownlee- The Autobiography of a Pioneering Journalist
- I Am a Black Woman- Poems Mari Evans
- How To Love a Black Woman by Muntu Meloncon, poet
- Don’t Cry Scream (1969) Don L Lee Black Poetry Civil Rights
- My Life and an Era-The Autobiography
- Crusade for Justice- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- Charles Gordone born 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio,
- Mojo Hand Jane Phillips 1966 African American Debut Novel author
- H Kahlif Khalifa – Too Black My Love- The Brief Affair
- Carolyn Rodgers – Songs of a Black Bird 1969
- The Last Shine A One Act Play by Arthur J. Graham k 1969 author
- Clarence C Bullock Autobiography of Artist author
- Damali, I am that we may be. (Denise Burnett) poet
- Houston Alfred Baker Jr. (born1943) is an American scholar poet
- John R. Jackson poet -Lift Up Your Head-
- Looking Back- by Ruby Bell – author
- Randolph Edward -Randy- Weston 1926 – 2018) American jazz pianist and composer author
- Safari West- Poems by John A. Williams
- Stepping Stones By George Norman -Poetry
- Poems of Cabin and Field Paul Laurence Dunbar 1904
- Poems by a Slave enhanced
- Joggin’ Erlong -1906 Original – P. L. Dunbar Poetry
- I Don’t Want to Be Rich,- Poems C.Prejean Zippert- African American
- Dont You Turn Back- Poems by Langston Hughes
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane by Michael S Harper African-American poet
- Chasing Me to My Grave -author
- Tobe ~1939 Vintage HC~ Stella Gentry Sharpe Race African-American
- THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL. AN OLD BALLAD RETOLD -BY COUNTEE CULLEN -book page
- Skins on the Earth 1976- Primus St. John – African American Poet
- IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS -SARAH GORDON CHAMBLISS -African-American Poetry
- COTTON CLUB- Clarence Major -radical African American poet- 1972
- At The Crossroads, McDonald Alston Hull (Hannibal) African American enhanced–
- Gertrude Blackwell BAILEY If Words Could Set Us Free -African American poet
- SEA GRAPES Poems by Derek Walcott 1976 African American Poet
- Born July 22, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri, Quincy Troupe author of 12 volumes of poetry,
- Sandi Lea-THE SILHOUETTE OF A PEN (1971)-1ST ED-BLACK CHICAGO POET
- Gerald W. Barrax-ANOTHER KIND OF RAIN (1970)- POET 1ST
- Evelyn Mobley-SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE(1974)- PHILADELPHIA POET-PRISON
- Carolyn Tillman-LIFE ON WHEELS (1975)–POLIO author
- Dick Gregory 1986 -Nigger- author
- he Substance of Things Hoped for- book cover author Samuel DeWitt Proctor
- The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave author
- The Essence Of My Mind- Poetic Thoughts Of A Nubian Kingsz – poet
- LeRoi Jones Slave Ship 1969 Jihad Prod. Newark NJ African American Theatre
- Being Somebody and Black Besides- George Nesbitt – author
- Gathering Blossoms Under Fire -author
- Amanda Berry Smith author
- Laura Wheeler Waring (May 26, 1887 – February 3, 1948) was an American artist and educator,
- Booker T Washington- Up From Slavery – author
- Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl author
- From the Darkness Cometh the Light- Lucy Delaney – author
- Poetry Literature Chicago Illinois 1940s William Walker
- Negro Digest- August 1943
- NEGRO DIGEST June 1947 Magazine
- NEGRO DIGEST June 1947 Magazine -2
- Negro Digest January 1945
- Expressions of Freedom Volume III -Anthology
- April 1947 Negro History Bulletin- Neighborhoods
- Ysaye Barnwell b.1946 No Mirrors In My Nanna’s House
- 1904-1948 UNKNOWN NEGRO POET
- IDA B. WELLS ~ The Negro’s Case in Equity ~ The Independent April 26 1900
- Langston HUGHES The American Negro Writer – pages
- Gwendolyn Brooks Bronzeville Boys and Girls 1956 poet
- The Life and Confessions of a Black Studies Teacher – author Dr Cecilia Harrington
- THE PLAYS OF GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON author
- Leslie Lacy -author- Black Nationalist, sociologist
- Narratives Poems In Tradition Of Black Women- Cheryl Clarke– 1983 poet
- AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN POET~SUFFRAGE~GERTRUDE BUSTILL MOSSELL
- Recollections of Seventy Years by Bishop Daniel A. Payne – author
- Shirley Graham Du Bois – Artist, Activist, and Author
- Too-Loo Byrd – The Story of a Little Negro Waif-1924
- Aaron Mcduffie Moore – Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street author
- Cane ~ JEAN TOOMER ~ 1923 ~ Harlem Renaissance poet
- WHY DO PEOPLE TREAT ME THE WAY THEY DO THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Jefferson Evans
- Alice Dunbar – Harlem Renaissance Women of Color, Sex & Poetry -enhanced
- Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave author
- OUR PHIL AND OTHER STORIES – AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF CHARACTER – 1889
- Bryant Rollins POETRY FOR MY FRIENDS 1st ed 1973 Black Arts Poetry New York
- Edmond Knowles-AT THE THRESHOLD (1974)- BLACK ARTS POETRY
- Robert Hayden-THE NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS-1972-AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
- Willow Weep for Me A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression by Danquah author
- When We See Us book cover
- Adesanya Alakoye (1943–1980 Tell me How Willing Slaves Be. Black Uplift Hoodoo. 1976
- The Negro A Review Published St. Louis, MO Dec 1944
- Negro Digest Sum & Substance, NY Nov 1940
- Negro Digest Sum & Substance o, NY Dec 1940
- Negro Digest Magazine John H. Johnson Nov 1949
- Slavery Religion Civil War Autobiography of James L. Smith
- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AMANDA SMITH- MINISTER author
- The Negro A Review Published St. Louis, MO January 1945
- Plantation Echoes by Elliott Blaine Henderson Poet 1904
- Langston Hughes-SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM-1942 poet
- H. Rap Brown Die Nigger Die! 1969 – poet
- New Negro World 1943 -Radical Civil Rights Magazine -1
- Oscar ( Harris) -The Memoir of a Master Architect – author
- The Negro Caravan – – 1941
- Negro) Digest Magazine John H. Johnson July 1943
- The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 Langston Hughes Bontemps -1 & 2
- The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 Langston Hughes Bontemps -3,4 5
- Sterling M MEANS The Black Devils and Other Poems 1st Edition 1919 poet
- Frank Marshall DAVIS Black Man’s Verse Signed 1st Edition 1935
- From Harlem to Hollywood- My Life in Music by Van Alexander- author
- The Messenger- A Journal of Scientific Radicalism Vol. II # 9 Oct 1920
- December 1947 Negro History Bulletin Magazine Vintage
- Expressions of Freedom Volume III
- 1901 Candle Lightin’ Time book pages
- WILSON WOODROW ROBINSON Poet b. 1922
- The Substance of Things Hoped for -A Memoir of African-American Faith author
- The Clearing and Beyond Poems by May Miller, African American poet
- RITA DOVE African-American Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
- POEMS WITH A VIEW BY WILSON WOODROW ROBINSON, – POET
- POEMS OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN POET ZION MCCOY CHURCH
- Melba Joyce Boyd (born April 2, 1950) is an American – significant figure in African-American poetry.
- Claude Clark -The Poet
- As I Run Toward Africa- A Memoir by Asante
- African American Poet, Calvin Hernton
- African American Poet Robert Hayden
- African American Goell Milton – The Wall That is My Skin – poet
- Idabelle Yeiser 1947 African American Poet
- Lucy Terry Prince, Singer of History 1st African-American Poet
- I’m Black and I’m Drunk Autobiography Chaney Allan – author
- The Harlem Street Nun-Autobiography of Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely – author
- The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
- DARK LAND by Kathleen Takerseley Young– poet
- Being Somebody and Black Besides- An Untold Memoir – author
- AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR JUDGE INEZ SMITH REID BOOK
- A Slave Girl’s Story- Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgold – author
- Bursting Bonds author
- Clarence C Bullock Autobiography of Artist – author
- SIGN MY NAME TO FREEDOM- By Reid Betty Soskin author
- My Life and an Era – author
- Mattie Griffith Autobiography of a Female Slave author
- Looking Back by Ruby Bell – author
- Les Brownlee The Autobiography author
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X – author
- Women Disabled Americans Poetry Autobiography Nebraska- book cover author
- Finding Me – A Memoir by Viola Davis author
- Harry Belafonte My Song – author


































































































































































































































































































































































































































