Black History Month
Synopsis of Selected Literary Works
The following entries provide brief plot summaries and explain the relevance of the work being discussed:
An Address to the Negroes by Jupiter Hammon
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Beyond Racism by Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Black Women Writers (1950-1980) Mari Evans, Editor and Contributor
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Crisis by W. E. B. DuBois
Crying in the Wilderness by Desmond Tutu
Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee
Families in Peril by Marian Wright Edelman
Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
homegirls & handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Letter from Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Native Son by Richard Wright
The New Negro: An Interpretation Alain Locke, Editor
Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life by Charles S. Johnson
The Past is the Past by Richard Wesley
Poetry of Langston Hughes
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry
Seize the Time by Bobby Seale
Soul on Fire by Eldridge Cleaver
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by W. E. B. DuBois
A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange
Tropic Death by Eric Walrond
We Can't Breathe by Ronald L. Fair
The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt
Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis
Your Arms Too Short to Box with God by Vinnette Carroll, Alex Bradford, and Micki Grant