African American writers
By: [compiled by Pamela E. Harkins and William J. Corrin].
Contributors: Harkins, Pamela.; Corrin, William J.
Series: A literary reader
Publisher: Nextext
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: African Americans -- Literary collections.; American literature -- African American authors.; Race relations -- Literary collections.; African Americans -- Literary collections.; American literature -- African American authors.
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Grades 9-12.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Literacy and liberation / by Frederick Douglass and Frances E. W. Harper; title: from Juneteenth / by Ralph Ellison; title: Rising from the past / by James Weldon Johnson, Sabah As-Sabah, and J. Rosamund Johnson; title: Treasures of time / by Florida Ruffin Ridley; title: Second-hand man / by Rita Dove; title: from The wedding / by Dorothy West; title: Two poems / by Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Nikki-Rosa / by Nikki Giovanni; title: from Jazz / by Toni Morrison; title: The jazz of poetry / by Jabari Asim and The Last Poets; title: from Notes of a native son / by James Baldwin; title: Why I like country music / by James Alan McPherson; title: Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / by Alice Walker; title: Washington Park / by Robert B. Stepto; title: from Unafraid of the dark / by Rosemary L. Bray; title: A day with my father / by Danzy Senna; title: On being black and American / by Langston Hughes and W. E. B. DuBois; title: from Black boy / by Richard Wright; title: World wars and the black soldier / by editors of The Crisis magazine and Grant Reynolds; title: Letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt / by Celestine Hobson; title: Beyond Vietnam / by Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: Black men and public space / by Brent Staples; title: Keep your eyes on the prize.