Black American Classics: 11 books in a single file (Samizdat Edition with Active Table of Contents), improved 2/27/2011 by James Weldon Johnson, Carter G. Woodson, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Matthew A. Henson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Will Still

Black American Classics: 11 books in a single file (Samizdat Edition with Active Table of Contents), improved 2/27/2011

James Weldon Johnson, Carter G. Woodson, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Matthew A. Henson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Will Still

2757 pages first pub 1903 (editions)

nonfiction classics history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a touchstone in the liter...

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