Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver

Zora Neale Hurston

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

William Craft

Scarlet Sister Mary

Julia Peterkin

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

Zora Neale Hurston

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

Charles W. Chesnutt

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Coretta Scott King

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

A Voice from the South

Anna Julia Cooper

The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

Thomas Smallwood

The Miseducation of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson

Jubilee

Margaret Walker

The Living Is Easy

Dorothy West

The Street

Ann Petry

The Conjure-Man Dies

Rudolph Fisher

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

James Weldon Johnson

Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts

William Still

The Bondwoman's Narrative

Hannah Crafts

Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall

Black No More (Penguin Classics)

George S. Schuyler