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.

Norton Anthology--Audio Files

DISC 1: MUSIC
Maple Leaf Rag, Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag, Jelly Roll Morton
Go Down, Moses, Paul Robeson
Steal Away to Jesus, Bernice Johnson Reagon
Been in the Storm So Long, Fisk Jubilee Singers
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel, Tuskegee Choir
This Little Light of Mine, Viola James & Congregation
Soon I Will Be Done, Mahalia Jackson
Take My Hand, Precious Lord, Clara Ward
Rosie, Inmates of Parchman Farm
You May Go But This Will Bring You Back, Zora Neale Hurston
Good Morning Blues, Leadbelly
C. C. Rider, Ma Rainey
Sunnyland, Elmore James
Backwater Blues, Bessie Smith
Beale St. Blues, Big Maybelle
Rock Me, Baby, Lightnin’ Hopkins
My Handy Man, Alberta Hunter
Trumpet Mouthpiece Blues, Clark Terry
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing), Duke Ellington
(What Did I Do To be So) Black and Blue, Louis Armstrong
Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
Parker’s Mood, King Pleasure
Four Women, Nina Simone
Dancin’ in the Street, Martha and the Vandellas
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

DISC 2: SPOKEN WORD
Atlanta Address [excerpt], Booker T. Washington
Autobiography, W. E. B. DuBois
If We Must Die, Claude McKay
Strong Men, Sterling A. Brown
The Creation, James Weldon Johnson
The Way Out Is to Pray Out, Rev. G. I. Townsel
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes
Heritage, Countee Cullen
Elder Eatmore’s Sermon on Generosity, Bert Williams
For My People, Margaret Walker
Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden
a song in the front yard, Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks
Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict, Sonia Sanchez
Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni
Wailers, Amiri Baraka
How Long Has Trane Been Gone? Jayne Cortez
Dear John, Dear Coltrane, Michael Harper
From Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Rita Dove introduces the Thomas and Beulah poems, the Event
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot or the Bullet, Malcolm X
The Message, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Selections are subject to change.