African American Literature Anthology

Reading 1:  Preface from the Book of American Negro Spirituals by James Weldon Johnson 
Reading 2: From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
Reading 3: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
Reading 4: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Oliver Gilbert
Reading 5: From Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 
Reading 6: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
Reading 7:  Up from Slavery, Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves, The Atlanta Exposition by Booker T. 
Reading 8: W.E.B. Du Bois: of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 
Reading 9:  James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Chapters 1–5) 
Reading 10:The Negro by Alain Locke 
Reading 11:  Chapters 1–4, from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 
Reading 12:  (Web Linked Anthology Reading): The Ethics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright
Reading 13:  (Web Linked Anthology Reading): A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry