Relevant Texts History of African American Literature

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THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION with two audio cds of folk culture. 

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail-contents.aspx?ID=10626

The Declaration of Independence, 1776

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

David Walker, David Walker’s Appeal in Four Article, 1829 (NA 227-238)

http://www.archive.org/stream/walkersappealwit16516gut/16516.txt http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html (text and related materials)

Freedom Riders 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/

Director/Producer Stanley Nelson

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html (full text

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/jacobs/hjhome.htm (related materials)

Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom(1855) http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouMybo.html

and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass(1881-1892) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglasslife/douglass.html

(NA Excerpts, 385-387 and 452-483)

Ida B. Wells Barnett, “A Red Record,” 1895 (NA 675-686)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14977

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery Excerpt, 1901, (NA 570-602)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/washington/toc.html

WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk,1903 (NA 686-689, 692-766)

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubSoul.html

Ann Petry, from The Street Excerpt 1946 (NA 1496-1516)

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Excerpt 1952 (NA 1548-1570)

James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son,” 1955 (NA 1696-1699, 1713-1727)

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, 1959 (NA 1768-1830)

Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 1964 (NA 1895-1908)

El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, From The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1964

In (NA 1859-1876)

Ntozake Shange, Excerpts. In NA 2553-2559.