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Book dossier
by Arna Bontemps
With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse.
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life
Josiah Henson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Autobiografía Malcolm X
Alex Haley
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Koritha Mitchell
The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Black Boy
Richard Wright
The fire next time
James Baldwin
