African American writers /
[compiled by Pamela E. Harkins and William J. Corrin].
- Evanston, Ill. : Nextext, c2001.
- 240 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- A literary reader .
Literacy and liberation / by Frederick Douglass and Frances E. W. Harper -- from Juneteenth / by Ralph Ellison -- Rising from the past / by James Weldon Johnson, Sabah As-Sabah, and J. Rosamund Johnson -- Treasures of time / by Florida Ruffin Ridley -- Second-hand man / by Rita Dove -- from The wedding / by Dorothy West -- Two poems / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Nikki-Rosa / by Nikki Giovanni -- from Jazz / by Toni Morrison -- The jazz of poetry / by Jabari Asim and The Last Poets -- from Notes of a native son / by James Baldwin -- Why I like country music / by James Alan McPherson -- Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / by Alice Walker -- Washington Park / by Robert B. Stepto -- from Unafraid of the dark / by Rosemary L. Bray -- A day with my father / by Danzy Senna -- On being black and American / by Langston Hughes and W. E. B. DuBois -- from Black boy / by Richard Wright -- World wars and the black soldier / by editors of The Crisis magazine and Grant Reynolds -- Letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt / by Celestine Hobson -- Beyond Vietnam / by Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Black men and public space / by Brent Staples -- Keep your eyes on the prize.
Grades 9-12.
0618048138
2001274900
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--African American authors.
Race relations--Literary collections.
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--African American authors.
PZ5 / .A2495 2001
810.8/0896073
Literacy and liberation / by Frederick Douglass and Frances E. W. Harper -- from Juneteenth / by Ralph Ellison -- Rising from the past / by James Weldon Johnson, Sabah As-Sabah, and J. Rosamund Johnson -- Treasures of time / by Florida Ruffin Ridley -- Second-hand man / by Rita Dove -- from The wedding / by Dorothy West -- Two poems / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Nikki-Rosa / by Nikki Giovanni -- from Jazz / by Toni Morrison -- The jazz of poetry / by Jabari Asim and The Last Poets -- from Notes of a native son / by James Baldwin -- Why I like country music / by James Alan McPherson -- Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / by Alice Walker -- Washington Park / by Robert B. Stepto -- from Unafraid of the dark / by Rosemary L. Bray -- A day with my father / by Danzy Senna -- On being black and American / by Langston Hughes and W. E. B. DuBois -- from Black boy / by Richard Wright -- World wars and the black soldier / by editors of The Crisis magazine and Grant Reynolds -- Letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt / by Celestine Hobson -- Beyond Vietnam / by Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Black men and public space / by Brent Staples -- Keep your eyes on the prize.
Grades 9-12.
0618048138
2001274900
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--African American authors.
Race relations--Literary collections.
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--African American authors.
PZ5 / .A2495 2001
810.8/0896073