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Category:  African American Literature (Sorted by Author's last name)


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-)    (Grade:B)

Prime Time Blues : African Americans on Network Television (2001) - Donald Bogle (-)    (Grade:C-)

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884)    (Grade:B)

Kindred (1979) - Octavia Butler (6/22/1947 -2/24/2006)    (Grade:A)

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (6/27/1872 -2/09/1906)    (Grade:B+)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-)    (Grade:C+)

Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Stories (A Giant Golden Book) (1947) - Joel Chandler Harris (12/09/1845-07/03/1908)    (Grade:A+)

If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) - Chester Himes (1909 -1984)    (Grade:B+)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960)    (Grade:B)

Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)    (Grade:C)

Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)    (Grade:C)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (1871 -1938)    (Grade:B+)

Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)    (Grade:F)

Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)    (Grade:D)

Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (2/25/1895 -8/31/1977)    (Grade:A-)

The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)    (Grade:B+)

Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)    (Grade:A)

Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)    (Grade:C+)

Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)    (Grade:C)