Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley 1773
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Fredrick Douglas 1845
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: By Sojourner Truth 1850
Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown 1853
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson 1859
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 1861
Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley 1868
Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper 1892
Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Harper 1892
Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs 1899
Contending Forces by Pauline Hopkins 1900
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt 1901
The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington 1901
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 1912
Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay 1922
Cane by Jean Toomer 1923
The New Negro: An Interpretation by Alain LeRoy Locke 1925
Color by Countee Cullen 1925
Quicksand by Nella Larsen 1928
The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher 1928
The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman 1929
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset 1929
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes 1930
Black No More by George Schuyler 1931
Southern Road by Sterling Brown 1932
Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps 1936
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 1937
Native Son by Richard Wright 1940
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway 1941
For My People by Margaret Walker 1942
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes 1945
Black Boy by Richard Wright 1945
The Street by Ann Petry 1946
The Living is Easy by Dorothy West 1948
The Lion and the Archer by Robert Hayden 1948
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley 1950
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 1953
Youngblood by John Oliver Killens 1954
South Street by William Gardner Smith 1954
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 1957
The Long Night By Julian Mayfield 1958
Trumbull Park by Frank London Brown 1959
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)1961
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr. 1964
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965