Masterpieces of African-American literature / edited by Frank N. Magill.

Includes indexes.

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All God's children need traveling shoes / Maya Angelou -- Another country / James Baldwin -- Appalachee Red / Raymond Andrews -- Autobiographical writings of Wiliam Wells Brown, The / William Wells Brown -- Autobiography of an Ex-coloured man, The / James Weldon Johnson -- Autobiography of Malcolm X, The / Malcolm X -- Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The / Ernest J. Gaines -- Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, The / W.E.B Du Bois -- Babel-17 / Samuel R. Delany -- Banana bottom / Claude McKay -- Beetlecreek / William Demby -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- Black thunder / Arna Bontemps -- Blacker the Berry, the WWallace Thurman -- "Blue Meridian" / Jean Toomer -- Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin -- Bluest eye, The / Toni Morrison -- Bright shadow / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- Captain Blackman / Johh A. William -- Chaneysville incidnet, The / David Bradley -- Clotel / William Wells Brown -- Color purple, The / Alice Walker -- Condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States politically considered, The / Martin Robison Delany -- Conjure woman, The / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Contending forces / Pauline Hopkins -- Content of our character, The / Shelby Steele -- Corregidora / Gayl Jones -- Dahomena, The / Frank G. Yerby -- Dessa Rose / Sherley Anne Williams -- Devil in a blue dress / Walter Moseley -- Different drummer, A / William Melvin Kelley -- Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Eva's man / Gayl Jones -- Faith and the good thing / Charles Johnson -- Fences / August Wilson -- Fire next time, The / James Baldwin -- Flight to Canada / Ishmael Reed -- for colored girls who have considered suicies / when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Funnyhouse of a negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- Gemini / Nikki Giovanni -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- God bless the child / Kristin Hunter -- Hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich / Alice Childress -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Homewood trilogy, The / John Edgar Wideman -- House behind the cedars, The / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Hurry home / John Edgar Wideman -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes -- In the wine time / Ed Bullins -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the african, The / Olaudah Equiano -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Iola Leroy / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Joe Turner's come and gone / August Wilson -- Jonah's gourd vine / Zora Neale Hurston -- Lawd today / Richard Wright -- Let the circle be unbroken / Mildred D. Taylor -- Linden Hills / Gloria Naylor -- Long dream, The / Richard Wright -- Ma Rainey's black bottom / August Wilson -- Mama / Terry McMillan -- Man who cried I am, The / John A. Williams -- Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Maud Martha / Gwendolyn Brooks -- M.C. Higgins, The great / Virginia Hamilton -- Measure of time, The / Roa=sGuy -- Meridian / Alice Walker -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Moses, Man of the mountain / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mumbo Jumbo / Ishmael Reed -- Marrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Narrows, The / Ann Petry -- Native son / Richard Wright -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Our nig / Harriet E. Wilson -- Outsider, The / Richard Wright -- Oxherding Tale / Charles Johnson -- Painted Turtle / Clarence Major -- Passing / Nella Larsen -- Photograph, A / Ntozake Shange -- Piano lesson, The / August Wilson -- Plum bun / Jessie Redmon Faust -- Poetry of Ai, The / Ai -- Poetry of Amiri Baraka, The / Amiri Baraka -- Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, The / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Poetry of Sterling Brown, The / Sterling Brown -- Poet.