The Negro in Illinois

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A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Ro...

Vonnegut in America

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Frederick Douglass

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Harlem Renaissance Remembered

By Arna Wendell Bontemps

Black Voices

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“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James BaldwinAn anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American aut...

American Negro poetry

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American Negro poetry

By Arna Wendell Bontemps

Dreaming out loud

By Horace A. Porter

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA 115)

By Robert Hass

In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now...

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA 116)

By Robert Hass

“The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. N...