Fleming Community Library

A collection of writings by such authors as W.E.B. DuBois, Toni Morrison, Rita Dove, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, exploring the connections of circle, veil, water, and song that link past and present African American cultures.

"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"-- Provided by publisher.

Presents an overview of African-American writers from 1746 to the present discussing their thoughts, attitudes, and experiences in a variety of genres.

"Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature -- and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the...

The history of African Americans is explored in their writings, narratives, letters, editorials, speeches, lyrics, & folktales, from U.S. colonial times to today. Here is the most comprehensive collection of African-American writing to date and includes poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers. An anthology that anyone interested in the full scope of African-American...