African American authors 
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Library of America volume 333.
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"Discover, in these pages, how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an antebellum activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery. Read nuanced, provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond. Experience the transformation of poetic modernism in the works of figures...
2. Alice Walker
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Examines the life and work of the author of "The Color Purple" and other works which focus on the lives of black women.
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Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.
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Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.
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Thirty-two poems that reflect aspects of the African American experience.
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The author records the years in which her life hinged on retaining her pride and dignity among the street people of Los Angeles.
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Presents an illustrated collection of poetry, rhythmic prose, and hip-hop and rap lyrics for children, mostly by African American authors.
More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.
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"James Weldon Johnson was a man of words. He wrote 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' a poem so uplifting and inspiring it became known as the Black national anthem. James was also a leader of the NAACP, and many people turned to him for advice in troubling times. And then was one of those times. White people were hurting Black people in scary and shocking ways. In July 1917, James helped lead thousands of children and adults in the Silent Protest Parade...
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A collection of short essays includes personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or...
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"One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart."--
17. Selected poems
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The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.
18. The weary blues
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"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their...