Anthology

Brotherman, edited by Herb Boyd and Robert Allen

The Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby

Conversations with God:  Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans, edited by James Melvin Washington

 

Biography and Memoir

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

Buck: A Memoir, by MK Asante

Listen Up: A Memoir of Perspective, by Fred Duncan with Sabin Duncan

Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, by Olaudah Equiano

Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington

 

Drama

Blues for Mr. Charlie, by James Baldwin

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry

Fences, by August Wilson

 

History

A History of Slavery in Virginia, by James C. Ballagh

Before the Mayflower, by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

The Destruction of Black Civilization,  by Chancellor Williams

They Came Before Columbus, by Ivan Van Sertima

Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad, by Cassandra Newby-Alexander

 

Nonfiction

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, by Michele Wallace

Jesus and the Disinherited, Jesus and the Disinherited, by Howard Thurman

Notes of a Hanging Judge, by Stanley Crouch

Race Matters, by Cornel West

The Mis-education of the Negro, by Carter G. Woodson

 

Novels and Short Stories

Assuming Hurts, by Sabin Prentiss

Kindred, by Octavia Butler

The Spook Who Sat by the Door, by Sam Greenlee

Two Thousand Seasons, by Ayi Kwei Armah

When Death Comes Stealing, by Valerie Wesley Wilson

 

 

Children

Many Thousand Gone: African American from Slavery to Freedom, by Virginia Hamilton

The Great Encounter: A Special Meeting Before Columbus, by Patricia Piercy

Working Cotton, Sherley Anne Williams

I love my hair!, by Natasha Tarpley

The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander

 

 

Young Adult

Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper

Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Day of Tears, by Julius Lester

The Skin I'm In, by Sharon G. Flake