African American-Poets, Digests & Autobiographical Authors Born Before 1950-2
- The Essential June Jordan – Black Arts Movement -poet poems
- Saundra Sharp IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE 1972 Black Arts Movement poet
- Sam Cornish-GENERATIONS-POEMS (1971)-1ST ED, BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT,
- 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
- Annette O. Shands BLACK VOLUME 1973 Black Arts Movement Poetry New York
- 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
- Dudley Randall-AFTER THE KILLING-1974-FINE-BLACK ARTS POETRY-DETROIT
- Dorothy June Watkins THOUGHTS & THINGS Dallas 1976 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- Dorothy J Watkins LOVE BONES Black Arts Movement Chicago Poetry 1st ed 1974
- 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
- Amifika- By Lucille Clifton – Poet
- 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
- L.D.W. ON MY JOURNEY NORTH 1979 African-American Autobiography
- 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
- Dorothy J Watkins LOVE BONES Black Arts Movement Chicago 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
- Mujahada GET BACK INSANITY -1975 Black Arts Movement Poetry Roxbury
- 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
- John R. Jackson-SOULFUL SOUNDS (1973) BLACK ARTS POETRY-FLORIDA
- 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