african american authors

Offers an overview of significant developments and contributions in African-American poetry, from the eighteenth century, through the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, to the present day.

Presents fourteen sermons by some of the most prominent ministers in the United States in which they offer messages of hope and help to African-American men.

An anthology of previously uncollected works by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Presents the poems of controversial twentieth-century African-American poet Melvin B. Tolson, including the works of his three poetry books and five fugitive poems written after 1944; also includes a scholarly introduction, notes and commentary to "Harlem Gallery, " and a published works list.

Translation of: Les Poetes Negres des Etats-Unis. A study of the major black poets of the United States from early slavery times to Langston Hughes.

A collection of nineteen stories and twelve poems by Black authors expounding on the theme of the family unit.

Presents alphabetized biographical and critical profiles of over sixty African-American dramatists from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright.

Reproduction of a 1914 text, consisting of a compilation of addresses and speeches by prominent African-Americans from the days of slavery through the early twentieth century, including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and the editor Alice M. Dunbar.

The first published volume of poetry that established African-American poet Alice Walker as one of the most significant American poets of the late twentieth century.