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The Black Experience in America: 18th-20th Century
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A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.
Contents:
- Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects Administration
- Death of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Fifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson
- Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall
- Reporting - by Henry Ossian Flipper
- The Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre Damer
- Your Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
- The Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Ex-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects Administration
- Where the Negro Lives - by Mary White Ovington
- Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon Johnson
- A Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson Coppin
- Sketches of the Black Baptist Church - by Various
- Lawing and Jawing - by Zora Neale Hurston
- Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. Washington
- Hot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization - by Monroe Nathan Work
- The Sunday School and Church... - by Daniel Webster Davis
- Ex-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects Administration
- Here Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley
- 'Lazy' - by James Weldon Johnson
- Of The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois.
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