Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Underground Railroad: A Selection of Authentic Narratives (Arcturus Classics)

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

Rosa Parks: My Story

Rosa Parks

Native Son

Richard Wright

Passing

Nella Larsen

There Is Confusion

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Cane

Jean Toomer

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Beloved

Toni Morrison

And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley

Phyllis Wheatley