African Americans 
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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...
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"This title introduces young readers to Amanda Gorman, best known as the first Youth Poet Laureate and for her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb."--Provided by publisher.
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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.
6. Cane
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"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
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"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar. -- [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music -- This book is a glorious revelation." -- Boston Globe Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest...
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The complete poems of James Weldon Johnson are collected in the centenary year of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," considered to be his most important work.
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Thirty-two poems that reflect aspects of the African American experience.
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In a powerful poem accompanied by majestic paintings of influential men, Shange reflects on her childhood when her home was often filled with visionaries and talented artists like Ellington, DuBois, Gillespie, and Robeson.
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A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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A biography of a man who, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, wrote poems, stories, and books which celebrated his African American heritage.
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Traces the life and achievements of the late-nineteenth-century African American poet, from his poverty-stricken childhood and his immense fame to his tragic death and enduring cultural legacy.
15. Langston Hughes
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems by noted African-American poet Langston Hughes. Contains a detailed introduction and biography, as well as brief notes accompanying each poem.
16. Langston Hughes
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A biography of the poet who spent his career writing abour the experiences of African Americans, interspersed with examples of his work.
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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...