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AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE READING LIST
Slave songs and spirituals
African American folktales
Olaudah Equiano
Phillis Wheatley
Frederick Douglass
William Wells Brown or Harriet Wilson
Harriet Jacobs
Frances Harper
Booker T. Washington
Charles Chesnutt
Pauline Hopkins or Anna Julia Cooper
W. E. B. Du Bois
Paul Laurence Dunbar or Alice Dunbar Nelson
Nella Larsen or Jessie Redmon Fauset
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, or Jean Toomer
Richard Wright
Dorothy West or Ann Petry
Robert Hayden or Margaret Walker
Ralph Ellison
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Baldwin
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lorraine Hansberry
Audre Lorde or Ishmael Reed
Amiri Baraka or Ntozake Shange
Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Etheridge Knight, or Michael Harper
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker or Gloria Naylor
August Wilson
For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
Administrative Assistant to Graduate Studies in English
3137 MHRA
(336) 334-5311
