African American Poets, & Autobiographical Authors Born Before 1950
- Bell Hooks – Africn Americn
- Norman Wilfred Lewis (1909 – 1979) American painter, scholar, and teacher
- A Former Slave Family Autobiography by L.C.W. African American
- Jet Mag. writer 1955 Mary Vroman
- Nathan Irvin Huggins – Black Odyssey – 1977 Harlem Renaissance author
- Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man 1952 – Author
- Zelda Ormes- Artist, Writer
- Oregon Federation of Colored Women Hymnal ~ James Weldon Johnson
- 1945 Etude Magazine Negro Composers
- TOAST TO WOMEN Rembrandt van Rijn ~ BLACK CAT PRESS CHAPBOOK
- Poets 4
- Poets 5
- Poets 6
- Poets 7
- Poets 8
- Lorraine Hansberry SAuthor
- Father of Black History
- HARLEM RENAISSANCE AUTOGRAPH JAMES VAN DER ZEE ADVERT (
- 1954 Impressionist Painting by E. Stanley Turnbull (
- Poets 2
- ‘Joséphine Baker’ 1925 Paul Colin
- MARGARET BURROUGHS ‘Cotton Pickers’ 1953
- ‘The Ascent of Ethiopia’ 1932 Lois Malou Jones
- ‘The Black Tumult’ Paul Colin 1925
- Mid Century Lithograph Sight of Sound 1955 by Dysart
- 1935 AAron Douglas
- Aaron Douglas 1935
- Eliazor Cortor
- African American Brothers by Malvin Gray Johnson
- 1925 Paul Colin-‘ The Jazz Orchestra of Josephine Baker’
- 1935 Lester Young Jazz Music Morgan Monceaux (
- 1935 Count Basie Jazz Music -Morgan Monceaux
- 100 BLACK HISTORY BULLETINS PROGRAMS BLANK ALEXANDER Anna J. Cooper
- James Baldwin – ‘The Fire Next Time’
- 100 BLACK HISTORY BULLETINS PROGRAMS
- Richard Wright ‘Black Power’
- Robert Nathaniel Dett,1882-1943,African composer
- James Whitehead – Poet
- Black Cat Club JD Corrothers 1 (
- Black Cat Club JD Corrothers 2
- Black Cat Club JD Corrothers Illustrated Black Humor
- Jackie Olmas cartoonist
- Allien Lock Author
- Allen Locke
- Hall Johnson,1888-1970,African American composer
- James Richmond Barthe,1901-89,African American sculptor
- Aaron Douglas,1899-1979,African American Painter
- W E B Du Bois Vintage Nation Magazine Black Americana Election Socialist 1956 1 (1
- W E B Du Bois Vintage Nation Magazine Black 2Americana Election Socialist 1956 2 (2)
- Samuel Brown . He was the first African American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project,
- Samuel Brown African American Artist 2
- Ed Arna Bontemps Anthology of Negro Poets LP Record 1st Edition 1954
- EDWARD B WEBSTER 1958 AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE ARTIST & ART PICTORIAL NATIVITY
- NEW NEGRO ARTISTS IN PARIS
- Langston Hughes Black Misery
- WILLARD MOTLEY SIGNED BOOK AFRICAN AMERICAN CHICAGO DEFENDER HULL HOUSE FOUNDER (2)
- Clement Richer Author
- ames Van Der Zee Postcards TAP DANCER & BOX OF CANDY
- James Van Der Zee Postcards TAP DANCER & BOX OF CANDY
- Hughie Lee-Smith Drawing
- Carl Latimer ( African-American 1924) Yellow Green composition.
- God’s Trombones 7 Negro Sermons in Verse J W Johnson
- ‘Crossin’ Over’ Leland – South Carolina, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY- 193
- 1956 VINTAGE NEW CROSS AFIRE IN DIXIE JAMES DESMOND (
- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks African-American Poet Pulitzer Prize 1949
- Ebony 1945’s Campbell’s Comics
- 1949 Florence Murray Black Author
- Ann Allen Shockley AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS 1846-1933 book art
- Black Boy Richard Wright book art
- Hughes, Langston The Weary Blues
- NATIVE SON – Richard Wright
- BECKY Julia Wilson John Wilson 2
- BECKY Julia Wilson John Wilson 1
- James Amos Porter,1905-70 Art Historian
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar,1872-1906,African American Poet
- Toni Morrison
- Francis Harper
- Amelia Johnson
- Amelia Johnson
- Anne Julia Cooper
- Anne Julia Cooper
- Josephine Silone-Yates
- Josephine Silone-Yates
- Josephine Turpin Washington
- Josephine Turpin Washington
- Clarissa Thompson
- Clarissa Thompson
- Grimke
- Nella Larson
- Fay M. Jackson
- Morita Bonner
- Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights
- 1946 CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS SIGNED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR I WERE WHITE
- Anne Spenser
- Nella Larson “Passing”
- DOROTHY WEST – Harlem Renaissance – novelist, short story writer
- Beulah Richardson A Black Woman Speaks…Of White Womanhood… 1957
- Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston 1937
- Every Tongue Got to Confess Negro Folk-Tale Zora Neale Hurston (
- Charles White Mother 1945
- 1955 ORIGINAL AUGUSTA BRAXSTON BAKER AUTHOR MANHATTAN NY
- Forty Cords of Wood ~ J. EDWARD PERRY ~ First Edition 1st 1947
- Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, Distinguished Black author, editor, publisher, and historian, recognized for his role in establishing Black History Month.
- Al Young 81 Obituary New York Times California Author Poet Negro History
- 1946 CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS SIGNED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR I WERE WHITE
- ithograph by African American Artist B S G Men In Rowboats (
- PAINTING 1945 BY ELTON FAX African American Artist (
- The Art Of The Illustrator 1918- Warwick Reynolds
- Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax
- Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 2
- Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 3
- Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 4
- ROBERT JOHNSON PRINT King of the delta blues Mississippi (
- Jennifer Anderson African American Moscow Girl Dawn Painting
- AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMER Sawyer
- W.E.B Du Bois by Winold Reiss
- Seven Afro-American artists of the Delaware Valley Reba Dickerson Hill, (image) Paul Keene, Humbert Howard, Charles Searles, Louis B. Sloan, Andrew Turner, Ellen Powell Tiberino,
- Sculptor Edmonia Lewis
- AFRICAN AMERICAN SIGNED POET BOOK FANTASTIC OWEN DODSON
- Owen Dodson 1951
- Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s
- Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print.
- Negro American Heritage Paul Lawrence & Florence Randall
- Pinkie Gordon Lane. African-American Poet
- Alexander Dumas and Family Authors
- Brunners- Watercolor painting
- African American Poetry Whence Waters Flow by Alice Merritt Richmond 1948
- James Amos Porter,1905-70,African American Art History
- James Amos Porter,1905-70,African American Art History
- Joggin’ Erlong Paul Laurence Dunbar 1906 1st edition African-American Poet Book
- Joggin’ Erlong Paul Laurence Dunbar 1906 1st edition African-American Poet Book 2
- ARNA BONTEMPS Poet 1939
- 1941 John Atkinson WPA African-American Artist
- activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual,
- AMERICAN NEGRO SHORT STORIES WRITERS
- Black Women Writers at Work by Tate
- Dean Dixon,African American conductor,symphonic orchestras,New York,NY,1935
- WILLIAM GRANT STILL 1949 AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSER
- Anna Julia Cooper iconic foremother of Black women’s intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements
- Photographer James Van Der Zee
- Gwedolyn Bennett Author
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 1
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 2
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 3
- Woodson Carter Godwin-Mis-Education Of The Negro 1933
- Political activist 1920-30’s
- Callie House (1861 – 1928) was a leader of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association,
- AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRST PULITZER TYPED POEM SIGNED GWENDOLYN BROOKS
- Amy Jacques Garvey – Selected Writings from The Negro World, 1923-1928
- Nannie Burroughs 1940-1950’s ddied 1961
- 12 Things #1
- 12 Things # 3
- 12 Things #6 and 7
- 12 Things # 8
- 12 Things # 9 and 10
- 12 things Negroes must do 1
- ROI OTTLEY author 1943
- ROI OTTLEY 2
- Nothing the Mentality of the Black Woman Evangeline Redding Author
- J.A. Rogers Author 100 Amazing Facts Aboutt the Negro
- Painter Laura Wheeler Waring, noted for her portraits and illustrations – New York Amsterdam 1923
- Lillian Fitzgerald- Singer Comedian
- AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1946 SCARCE CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS
- 1946 AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1946 SCARCE CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS 2 (1)
- Augusta Savage – Writer
- Black designer Zelda Wynn Valdes
- Lois Malou Jones artist
- Milt Simons African American Artist 1953 – Old Man
- Sculptor Edmonia Lewis
- Female Artist
- CLAUDE MCKAY, REBEL SOJOURNER IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- African American Woman Poet~Suffrage~Gertrude Bustill Mossell
- 1920 Poet Wendell Phillips Gladden
- AMY JACQUES GARVEY – SELECTED WRITINGS FROM THE NEGRO
- EARLG
- THE TEACHINGS-DRAWN FROM AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS By Aminah Brenda
- Nella Larsen – Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance
- Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- African Violet- Poem for a Black Woman by James C. Kilgore 2
- African Violet- Poem for a Black Woman by James C. Kilgore 2
- BEAUFORD DELANEY A Retrospective studio Museum In Harlem
- RICO-LEBRUN-FOR-COLOR-PATRONS-5-RACISM-IN-AMERICA-AFRICAN-AMERICAN-
- This Side of Jordan Roark Bradford Harpers 1929 African American South
- African Violet- Poem for a Black Woman by James C. Kilgore 1983
- George_Rowe_1890 poet 1
- Poets 1
- List of Negro Poets 3 1!947
- List of Negro Poets 2 1947
- List of Negro Poets 1947 1
- Rev George Rowe Poet 1853-1903
- A Spirit filled Life 1908
- 1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology 2
- 1948 Poets
- Richard Wright
- Francis Ellen Watkins Harper Poet
- Jessie Redmon Fauset Poet 1929-1958
- John Hope Franklin Historian 1940-1999
- 1920 African American Black Literature Poetry 3
- Frank Yerby author Foxes of Harrow 1946
- CLAUDE MCKAY, REBEL SOJOURNER IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- Landmarks in African American History – book cover
- The Goddam White Man 1960 David Lytton African American
- Richard Wright- Author
- 1931 LELAND HALL SALAH PROSE BOOK NOVEL
- Anne Petry Author -The Street- 1946
- CHARLES W. CHESNUTT African American Author & Activist DEATH 1932
- Ishmael Reed – MUMBO JUMBO – 1972 Postmodern Classic
- Eric Derwent Walrond was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist
- Harlem Book of The Dead James Van Der Zee
- Harlem Book of The Dead James Van Der Zee 2
- Countee Cullen letter
- Eugene B. Redmond (born December 1, 1937, St. Louis) is an American poet, and academic.
- Julius Lester Author
- 1978 HURT COMES & GOES -Poetry of a Black American Woman- JERRI ALEXANDER
- Le Roi Jones – Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note First Edition 1961
- Samuel James Cornish- b.1935-2018-first poet laureate. African American- Boston
- Jet Magazine author Mary Vroman
- We Are Rising- poem 1
- We Are Rising- poem 2
- Everett Hoagland b.1942 Poet Pof. Dartmouth
- Chet Fuller (1950 – 2022) – Atlanta, GA Poet Author
- AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSER SIGNED MUSIC CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE
- Black Bourgeoisie Rise of a New Middle Class E Franklin Frazier African Am 1965
- African American Author Leslie Pinckney Hill b1880-1960 Harlem Renaissance
- Phyllis Wheatley
- BELABORED PROFESSIONS – NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN By Xiomara Santamarina
- African American Author book Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance
- Harold Carrington- Poet-Drive-Suite.
- Joyce Carol Thomas -BittBELABORED PROFESSIONS – NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN By Xiomara Santamarinaersweet- 1973 African American Poetry
- Ann Perry -Author
- LUCY TERRY b 1730 poet storyteller former African slave
- George W. WILLIAMS, (1849-1891). History of the Negro Race .
- The Outsider by Richard Wright
- The Outsider by Richard Wright
- avid Wadsworth CANNON, Jr – Black Labor Chant 1939
- When Daddy Was a Boy Thomas Wood Parry 1917
- Gooseberry Jones, Will Gerber 1947
- OSSIE – THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACK WOMAN – By Ossie Guffy
- BOOK SIGNED ROI OTTLEY CHICAGO HARLEM
- Earl Cash-JOHN A. WILLIAMS- EVOLUTION OF A BLACK WRITER-
- Oscar Micheaux Author
- David Wadsworth CANNON, Jr – Black Labor Chant and Other Poems 1st Edition 1939- 2
- Silas Jones PRICE OF DIRT 1st ed 1974 African-American Memoir,
- Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer.
- Amiri Baraka -ITS NATION TIME- 1970 BLACK POETRY
- 1964 A Crown for Thomas Peters 1st Ed.-Slavery to Leadership-Biographical African American
- Stylin”- AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
- Sam-Cornish-My-Daddy’s People Were Very Dark 1976 Poetry
- Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) author educator
- Pernet Patterson ROAD TO CANAAN 1st 1931 ed
- One Life- The Autobiography of an African American Actress by Holly, Ellen
- Trudier Harriss, educator, historian born 1948 African American
- THE PASSION OF THE LORD AFRICAN AMERICAN REFLECTIONS By James A. Noel
- Lloyd A. Barbee Civil rights leader and legislator African American author
- 1840 MEMOIRS OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE, a Free Black + Native American Woman
- Ivar Dixon actor
- Clarence Major-SWALLOW THE LAKE (1970)- African American Poet
- 1959 Woodson & Wesley THE STORY OF THE … RETOLD
- ADA is a book chronicling the life style of 84 years (1895-1979) of a Black woman
- DISCIPLINING WOMEN- ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, BLACK By Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
- AFRICAN AMERICAN S POET OWEN DODSON
- Walter Williams, Caged Bird African American b.1928-1990
- AFRICAN AMERICAN JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 1940
- Soul in Ice Eldridge Cleaver b. 1938
- Lou Dials -LIFE IN BASEBALLS NEGRO LEAGUES
- Former Negro ex-Slaves tell what slavery was Like -Lay my Burden Down- 1948
- Banjo Talks Anne V Culbertson 1905 Early African American
- Barbara Wilson Tinker – When The Fire Reaches Us 1970
- Charles H WESLEY – Neglected History Essays in Negro-American History 1965
- FOR MY PEOPLE by MARGARET WALKER, AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY, 2
- 1974 Ron Milner African-American Playwright –
- 1958 -The-Lonesome Road Story of The Negros Part in America by-Saunders Redding.
- Who Look at Me by June Jordan 1969 Paintings Poetry
- Who Look at Me by June Jordan 1969 Paintings Poetry 3
- I am the American Negro FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS 1937
- Black Metropolis -A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City – Chicago (1945, African Authors
- The Betrayal of the Negro by Dr. Rayford W. Logan 1965
- HE BOOK OF NEGRO HUMOR by Langston Hughes, 1966
- The Women Who Caught the Babies
- Walter E FAUNTROY -AFRICAN-AMERICANA The Black Leadership Family Plan –
- 1973 book 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie 2
- AMERICA’S FIRST NEGRO POET THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JUPITER HAMMON
- Charity Adams Earley – ONE WOMAN’S ARMY
- HE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1st Ed, 1953 Benjamin Quarles African American author
- Pearl Cleage Author b.1948
- David Bradley THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT. b.1950 African Amrican
- PINEY WOODS & Its STORY, 1922, Lawrence C. Jones, 2
- PINEY WOODS & Its STORY, 1922, Lawrence C. Jones,
- The Negro in Colonial New England-1620-1776 by Lorenzo Johnston Greene Lorenzo Johnston Greene (1899–1988)
- THE UPWARD CLIMB -BY SARA ESTELLE HASKIN AFRICAN AMERICAN 1927
- VOICES FROM THE NEGRO LEAGUES= CONVERSATIONS WITH 52 By Brent Kelley
- I Freed Myself – African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Popular Fronts – Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46,
- CAT EYES AND DEAD WOOD – MELBA JOYCE BOYD 1978 – Black Poetry African American
- 1905 African American Slave Dialect PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
- THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM- A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS, By Clayborne Carson b.1944
- YOU MAY PLOW HERE – THE NARRATIVE OF SARA BROOKS
- AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS IN THE UNITED STATES (NEW By Herbert Aptheker
- Tom Skinner 1968 Very Rare
- HARLEM RENAISSANCE By Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Vigilance – The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
- NEW WORLD A-COMING – Inside Black America – Roi Ottley – 1943 – Harlem 2
- NEW WORLD A-COMING- Inside Black America – Roi Ottley – 1943 – Harlem
- THE REAL MCCOY- THE LIFE OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTOR
- 1973 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie
- 1973 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie
- Elizabeth Clark-Lewis – African American historian. Howard University
- Ocania Chalk, BLACK COLLEGE SPORT Author
- ella Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance
- Jackson Blyden Jackson (October 12, 1910 – 2000) was a Black American academic, essayist, and activist. The Grandson of Slaves,
- (1912–1948). Karl E. Downs, Black minister and college president
- 1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 2-
- 1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 2-
- 1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 3
- African American Author Manuscript Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance HBCU
- African American Author Manuscript Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance HBCU 2
- Growing Up in the Black Belt Negro Youth in the Rural Charles S Johnson 1941
- Growing Up in the Black Belt Negro Youth in the Rural Charles S Johnson 1941
- Lyric and Legend Idabelle Yeiser 1947 African American Poet
- NIMBO THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN BOY
- PHOTONOVEL -The Crowning Experience-1960 MURIEL SMITH black American educator
- Gulf Stream Marie Stanley (Sheip) Black Americana Rare Book 1930
- 1903 ANNE HOBSON -IN OLD ALABAMA- AFRICAN AMERICAN
- Sterling X Poet b 1952
- AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK NATIONALIST REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA POETRY STERLING X 2
- BLACK BOLSHEVIK Harry Haywood 1978 RADICAL African American SOCIALIST REBEL 2
- BLACK BOLSHEVIK Harry Haywood 1978 RADICAL African American SOCIALIST REBEL
- SOJOURNING FOR FREEDOM- BLACK WOMEN, AMERICAN COMMUNISM, By Erik S. Mcduffie
- Guide to Truth by Pearl Cleage
- 1917 CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS-Irwin Russell-MISSISSIPPI – African American
- 1917 CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS-Irwin Russell-MISSISSIPPI – African American
- Riding Jane Crow- African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert
- Sam Cornish-GENERATIONS-POEMS (1971)- BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT,
- he SEEKING, 1953, Will Thomas ,Black Americana
- 1940 Negro Mason United States
- Charles V. Hamilton-THE BLACK PREACHER IN AMERICA (1972)- African American
- GONE FISHIN, 1997, Walter Mosley
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
- The Black Woman- An Anthology- Ed. Toni Cade
- The Black Woman- An Anthology-Ed. Toni Cade- 2
- Robert Penn Warren–Segregation- Inner Conflict in the South- 1956
- PLES STERLING STUCKEY, JR. (1932-2018) African American Author Professor
- BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA By W. E. B. Dubois
- American Biologists Black Apollo of Science Ernest Everett Just 2
- 1848 THE PRISON BARD OR POEMS WRITTEN IN JAIL GEORGE THOMPSON AID SLAVES FREEDOM African American
- Calvin C Hernton – Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers Adventures in Sex African American
- African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book 2
- African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book 3
- 1976 African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book
- Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an American writer and poet.
- NOTES OF A-NATIVE SON-GIOVANNIS-ROOM- by JAMES BALDWIN
- Jerry Pinkney 2
- Raymond Andrews – Baby Sweets – 1983 African American
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Book- HOWDY HONEY HOWDY- AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
- Paul Dunbar Erlong – Black African American Prose Vintage 190
- Mrs. Ophelia Settle Egypt Fisk University Researcher
- MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 4
- MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 -3
- MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 2
- MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893
- Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892–1972) African American author
- Edythe Mae Gordon (ca. 1897–1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance
- DANGEROUS LIAISONS- SEX AND LOVE IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH By Robinson Charles F. African American author
- Bell Hooks – African American
- African American Music Spirituals -Hansonia Caldwell African American
- Alexander Gifford or Vilets’s Boy A Story of Negro Life Rev Henry Merrill 1905 African American
- John Henry Guy B. Johnson (1901 – 1991) was an American sociologist and social anthropologist. African American
- Lesile Lacy- Native Daughter -African American Author
- The Man Who Cried I Am -John Williams African American
- African Americans John Henry Play Roark Bradford 1st 1939
- African Americans John Henry Play Roark Bradford 1st 1939
- Arthur Talmage Abernethy ( 1872 –1956) was a writer, theologian, and poet. African American
- Howard Washington Thurman ( 1899 – 1981) was an American author,
- JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON (1871-1938) The Second Book of Negro Spirituals 1926
- Mannie Brown and Edward Kennedy by Mildred Rutherford, 1896, African American
- MISS MINERVA CHILDRENS-1930s-ERA BOOKS
- My Great Wide Beautiful World – Juanita Harrison 1936 HC African American
- Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion – Herbert Aptheker 1968
- Race Relations Racism African Americans Social Conditions Color Blind DJ 1946 Halsey African American
- Woodward African American Black Poetry Poems Love Songs and New Spirituals 1980 page
- What the Negro Thinks, by Robert Russa Moton 1929
- The New Negro Alain Locke 1927
- The New Negro Alain Locke 1927 -3
- THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY – 1959
- 1938- LiL Hannibal- Hardbound-Children’s Book by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- BIRTHRIGHT, by T.S. Stribling – 1922 Black Americana Civil Rights Racial Issues
- 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.
- SENEGAMBIAN SIZZLES NEGRO STORIES BY E V WHITE SIGNED 1948 African American
- Mary Frances Berry (born February 17, 1938) is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist
- BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER- HISTORY OF NEGRO IN AMERICA 1619-1964 BY LERONE BENNETT,JR
- Woodward African American Black Poetry Poems Love Songs and New Spirituals 1980
- Hal Woodrum African American
- Howard Odum – Rainbow Round My Shoulder 1928 Author
- Douglas Turner Ward1930 – 2021) was an American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer.
- George Barlow GABRIEL 1974 – POET
- Lloyd Addison The Aura & The Umbra – poetry
- Dorothy J Watkins LOVE BONES Black Arts Movement Chicago Poetry
- Dorothy June Watkins THOUGHTS & THINGS Dallas 1976 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- Fulani SECOND THE EMOTION 1974 Black Arts Movement Poetry Brooklyn
- Jeremy Randolph POEMS II 1st ed 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry, Texas Author
- Ruby Primus Frazier RUBY’S BLACK EMERALDS 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry
- Our Life May 1954 Vol 1 #2 Rev. Henry Armstrong author
- Black Thoughts by Lillie Mae Carter 1931 -2004 African-American
- LAYING DOWN MY BURDENS By Brenda L. Thomas -author
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FUGITIVE NEGRO- HIS ANTI-SLAVE LABOURS By Samuel Ringgold -author
- I Paid My Dues- Good Times… No Bread…. A Story of Jazz…. by Babs Gonzales -author
- Quincey Troupe poet, educator, writer Born July 22, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri,
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs-author
- Steps to Break the Circle & Half Black Half Blacker by Sterling Plump – Poet b.1940