E-text from Documenting the American South
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Charles
Chesnutt (1858-1932)
See Charles Waddell
Chesnutt for biography and online e-texts
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Countee
Cullen
See Countee Cullen for
biography, online e-texts and other material
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Frederick Douglass
See Frederick
Douglass
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Rita
Dove
Rita Dove Teacher Resource
File
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W. E.
B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963)
The W.E.B. DuBois
Biography from W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
W.E.B.
Du Bois (1868-1963)
Biography from Heath Anthology
PAL.
Wiliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Primary works; selected bibliography; from Perspectives
in American Literature
W.E.
B. DuBois
Brief biography, selected bibliography; from UVA
W.E.B.
Dubois Chronology
From Smithsonian
Selected
Bibliography
Critical essays; for young readers; CDs and Videos;
links; from Smithsonian
Project
Bartleby
The Souls of Black Folk
The
Conservation of Races
From Project Gutenberg
"The
Freedmen's Bureau"
By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois; from eserver.org
African American
Poets
Space down for "The Song of the Smoke;"
from Andre's Web Page
"Strivings of the Negro
People"
By W.E. Burghard Du Bois; from eserver.org
Questions
for Reading and Discussion/Approaches to Writing
Teaching the works of W.E.B. Du Bois; By Frederick Woodard;
From Heath Anthology
To
Kill A Mockingbird. Lesson Plan
The Southern experience during the Depression of the
1930's; background information; bibliography includes
The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
See Paul
Laurence Dunbar for online e-texts.
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Alice
Dunbar-Nelson
Biography; critical essays on the works of
Alice
Dunbar-Nelson; from Modern American Poetry
Poetry
& Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Text of: Hope Deferred
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
Poetry
and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Fauset's "Dead Fires",
"Enigma", "La Vie C'est la Vie", "Noblesse Oblige", "Oblivion", "Words!
Words!"
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Rudolph Fisher
The South
Lingers On
E-text of short story by Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph
Fisher Newsletter
Lists of primary/secondary sources, anthologies, &
bibliographies on Rudolph Fisher and the Harlem
Renaissance
Rudolph
Fisher and the Harlem Renaissance in Short Units
Grades 9 to 12; literature, debate, writing;
by Kay
Pickett, from The Givens Foundation
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Mary Weston Fordham
American
Verse. Mary Weston Fordham
"Magnolia Leaves : Poems." With
introduction by Booker T. Washington.
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Angelina W. Grimke
Poetry
and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Grimke's "The Black
Finger", "For the Candle Light", "Tenebris", "When the Green Lies Over the
Earth", "A Winter Twilight"
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Briton Hammon
A
Narrative
of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon,
a Negro Man
From University of Virginia
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Jupiter Hammon (1711-ca. 1800)
Library of
Virginia (UVA)
"An Address to the Negroes in the
State of New
York"
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Frances
E. W. Harper (1825-1911)
See Frances E. W.
Harper for online texts.
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Robert Hayden
Academy of American
Poets. Robert Hayden
Biography; Texts of "Full Moon;" "Middle Passage," "The
Whipping," "Those Winter Sundays," "Soledad," "Frederick Douglass,"
"Runagate Runagate."
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Frank Smith
Horne
Frank Smith
Horne
Biography, e-text of "Letters Found Near a Suicide"
by Frank Smith Horne, Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
See Langston Hughes
for
biography, online texts
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Zora
Neale Hurston
See Zora Neale
Hurston for biography, online texts
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Harriet A. Jacobs
MOA
Bibliography. UMichigan
Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl [1861]
The
Family That Endured; An Historical View of African-American Families as
Seen through American Literature and Art
Unit plan by Jean Sutherland.
Afro-American Literature, Family Life, Black History for Grade 5.
From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
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Langston Hughes
See Langston Hughes
for biography, etexts and other information
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James Weldon Johnson
American Verse
Project
Fifty
Years and Other Poems
Poetry
and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Johnson's "The
Creation", "Fifth Years, 1863-1913", "The Glory of the Day Was in Her
Face", "Lift Every Voice and Sing", "My City", "O Black and Unknown
Bards", "Sence You Went Away"
Academy of American
Poets. James Weldon Johnson
Biography; Texts of "Go Down, Death," "Listen, Lord: A
Prayer," "Lift Every Vooice and Sing," "The Creation" [audio file]
The Negro National
Anthem
Listen to the music. Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and
Sing." From Afro-American Flag Company
A
Middle School Approach to Black Literature
Unit plan by Ivory Erkerd. Middle
school or Grades 9 - 10. Afro-American Literature. From Yale New Haven
Lesson Plans
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Elizabeth Keckley
African American
Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. Elizabeth
Keckley
Behind the Scenes,
or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Year in the White House;
Autobiography. Lincoln administration
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Yusef
Komunyakaa
Academy of American
Poets. Yusef Komunyakaa
Biography; e-text of "The Whistle," "My Father's Love
Letters" [audio]
Yusef
Komunyakaa
E-texts of several poems
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Nella Larsen
Poetry
and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Larsen's "Sanctuary"
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Alain
L. Locke (1885-1954)
Alain
Leroy Locke
Biography, text of essay, "Moral Imperatives for World
Order," Internet resources, bibliography;
from Alain L.
Locke
Society
Alain Locke
Alain Locke was the first African American Rhodes
Scholar; New Negro Movement; from Adult Educators You
Should Know
Alain
Locke. Classroom Issues and Strategies
By Beth Helen Stickney; from Heath Anthology
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Claude McKay
Academy of American
Poets. Claude McKay
Biography; Texts of "The White House," "The Tropics of New
York," "If We Must Die."
Poetry and
Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes McKay's "After the
Winter", "America", "Baptism", "Flame-Heart", "Harlem Shadows",
"Heritage", "If We Must Die", "To O.E.A", "Russian Cathedral", "A Song
of the Moon", "Spring in New Hampshire", "The Tropics in New York",
"White Houses"
Claude
McKay
Text of "Harlem Dancer," The Negro's Tragedy," "Tiger."
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William Pickens (b. 1881)
Digitized
Library of Southern Literature; Beginnings to 1920. UNC
The Heir of Slaves; An
Autobiography [1911]
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Esther Popel
Poetry and
Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Popel's "Flag Salute",
"Blaspheny--American Style", "October Prayer"
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Anne
Spencer
Poetry and
Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Includes Spencer's "At the
Carnival", "For Jim, Easter Eve", "Letter to My Sister", "Life-Long, Poor
Browning...", "Lines to a Nasturtium"
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Jean Toomer
Academy of American
Poets. Jean (Eugene) Toomer
Biography; texts of "Reapers," "Portrait in Georgia,"
"Song of the Son."
Jean
Toomer
Text of "Georgia Dusk."
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Margaret
Walker
Margaret Walker
E-texts of several poems
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Modern
English Collection
Search by author's name.
Contents="The Awakening of the Negro"
[1896]; "The Case of the Negro" [1899]; "Is the Negro Having a Fair
Chance?" [1912]; "The Fruits of Industrial Training" [1903]; "Heroes in
Black Skins" [1903]; "Negro Self-Help" [1905]; "Negro Progress in
Virginia" [1914]; "The Religious Life of the Negro" [1905]; "Signs of
Progress among the Negroes" [1900]; "Teamwork" [1915]; "Tuskegee: A
Retrospect and Prospect" [1906]
Digitized
Library of Southern Literature; Beginnings to 1920
Up From Slavery; An
Autobiography [1901]
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Phillis Wheatley
See Phillis
Wheatley for biography & online e-texts.
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Carter Woodson
The Negro
In Our History
From Case Western Preservation Department
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