African-American Literature Writers, Projects, Works |
The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive (includes a variety of primary texts by Chesnutt, numerous reviews, and bibliographical information)(Stepahnie P. Browner, Berea C., Berea, KY) |
African American Women Writers of Color (Voices from the Gaps) |
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Maya Angelou |
Maya Angelou Discussion Forum |
Maya Angelou: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism (Jay Brandes, Troy State U.) |
Maya Angelou Links and Resources (Dept. of English, U. of Cincinnati) |
Maya Angelou: Teacher Resource File (Inez Ramsey, James Madison U.) |
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Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) |
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Page (Michael Borshuk) |
Amiri Baraka, "Minton's" (1962) (Michael Borshuk) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks |
Gwendolyn Brooks (Academy of American Poets) Bibliography and links, including link to audiofile of Brooks reading |
Gwendolyn Brooks (D.H. Melhem, Heath Anthology of American Literature) |
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Lucille Clifton |
Lucille Clifton (Academy of American Poets) Bibliography and links, including links to audiofiles of Clifton reading "Cutting Greens" and "Homage to My Hips") (Academy of American Poets) |
Lucille Clifton (bibliography and links) (A.Grischkowsky, H. Hemmen, and J. Schindler, U. Minnesota) |
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Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center |
Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center |
Frederick Douglass Chronology |
Frederick Douglass Photo gallery |
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
Homepage of Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (National Park Service) |
Texts |
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (UPenn gopher) |
"Reconstruction" |
Sandra Thomas, Frederick Douglass: "Abolitionist/Editor" (biography) |
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Rita Dove |
"Lady Freedom Among Us" (UVA etext) |
Rita Dove Page |
Rita Dove (Academy of American Poets) |
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Paul Dunbar |
Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage (T. Columbus, U. of Dayton) Includes biography, realaudio readings of Dunbar's poetry, images, and links. |
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) (D. Campbell, Gonzaga State U.) Includes links to many works on line. |
Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection (Wright State U Library) "provides access to over two hundred poems" |
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Ralph Ellison |
Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Potts, UCLA) Includes chronology and extensive bibliography |
Teacher's Guide to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (includes questions, exercises, and assignments) (B. Allen / Vintage Books) |
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Lorraine Hansberry |
Concordance to A Raisin in the Sun (Iowa State U.) |
Lorraine Hansberry (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
Teacher's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun (B. Allen, Vintage Books) |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
Photograph (Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, U Virginia) |
Texts |
Atlanta offering : poems (Humanities Text Initiative, U Michigan) |
Poems (Electronic Text Center, U Virginia) |
Sketches of Southern Life (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers) |
Title page of Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted (Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, U Virginia) |
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Langston Hughes |
General Resources |
Brief Biography of Langston Hughes (Nick Evans and David Liss) |
It's a Hughes Thang!!!! (Michele Maynard, U. Texas, Austin) |
Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center (Queens, NY) |
Langston Hughes Page (The Poetry Archives) |
Langston Hughes Page (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
Langston Hughes (Academy of American Poets) Includes audiofile of |
Langston Hughes Page (History Dept., Hanover C.) |
The Poetry of Langston Hughes Teacher Cyberguide (SCORE, San Diego County Office of Education) |
Images |
Photograph of Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten (1939) (Smithsonian) |
Poetry |
"Advice," "Island," "Beale Street," "Dream Dust" (David Chanlin) |
"Be-Bop Boys" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
"Jazzonia" (Nick Evans and David Liss) |
"Justice" and "Still Here" (David Aaron Kurtenbach) |
"Song for Billie Holiday" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
"The South" (Crystal Kile) |
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Zora Neale Hurston |
A Compendium of Research on the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (Rouzie, Ohio U) Includes annotated bibliography and reception history |
Criticism |
Rita Hooks (St. Petersburg Junior C.), "Conjured Into Being: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston (Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota) |
Zora Neale Hurston: Background (Lauren Schiff, U. Virginia) |
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Audre Lorde |
Writing and Resistance Criticism: Audre Lord (Jody Kerr, Arizona State U) |
Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Poems (1910) (New York Public Library) |
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Ntozake Shange |
Ntozake Shange (Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) |
Writing and Resistance Web Links: Ntozake Shange (Jody Kerr, Arizona State U) |
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Toni Morrison |
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
Web Page of Toni Morrison's Beloved (English 316K, U. Texas, Austin) |
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Jean Toomer |
Jean Toomer (Academy of American Poets) |
The Jean Toomer Pages (Scott W. Williams, State U of New York, Buffalo) |
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Sojouner Truth |
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) (Celebration of Women Writers) |
Sojourner Truth Institute |
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Alice Walker |
Alice Walker (Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, U Minnesota) |
Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Anniina Jokinen) |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
Texts |
"The Freedmen's Bureau" |
"A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" |
"Of the Training of Black Men" |
"Strivings of the Negro People" |
The Souls of Black Folk (Bartleby Library) |
"Woman Suffrage" (K. Kish Sklar and T. Dublin, SUNY Binghamton) |
W.E.B. Du Bois Papers |
Homepage (Special Collections and Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, U. Massachusetts Amherst) |
The Achievement of W.E.B. Du Bois (biography) |
A W.E.B. Du Bois Chronology |
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Phillis Wheatley |
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans. (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Libraries) |
Phillis Wheatley Page (The Poetry Archives) |
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) (Project Gutenberg) |
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Richard Wright |
Richard Wright - Black Boy (info on TV production; includes background material) (Mississippi Educational Television and the Independent Television Service) |
Richard Wright Page |
Homepage (Richard Hancuff, George Washington U.) |
Richard Wright Bibliography |
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