• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University
• Carnegie Library Links on African Americans
• University of Eastern Michigan program in African American Studies
• The Black Film Center/Archive -- Indiana University
• The Federal Writers Project.
  
  
• H-Slavery: Scholarly site on the history of slavery
• African American Voices . . Digital History, Univ. of Houston
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology . . Univ. of Virginia
• The Slave Narrative . . Gonzaga Univ.
• Elements in Slave Narratives . . Richland College
• Slavery and the Slave Era . . Richland College
  
  
• Callaloo...a scholarly journal of African-American studies...Project Muse, Johns Hopkins
• Turning Point: Magazine of, by and for Southern California African Americans
• Meanderings:...journal on art and culture which sometimes takes an African American perspective
• Negro Leagues Baseball Online . . (shared with "Sports Literature")
  
  
• Directory of African American Web Sites

Web Resources on Topics and Specific Authors:

James Baldwin: listed when we find them

Amiri Baraka:

• Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones
• Amiri Baraka, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois
• Amiri Baraka, Academy of American Poets
• Baraka and Jazz: Discography Project
• Amiri Baraka Site . . Univ. of Illinois
• Text for "Somebody Blew Up America"

Gwendolyn Bennett:

• Gwendolyn Bennett, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Gwendolyn Brooks:

• Gwendolyn Brooks, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Sterling Brown:

• Bibliography from MLA database
• Sterling A. Brown Site . . Univ. of Illinois
• Sterling A. Brown's Life and Career . . John Edgar Tidwell
• Sterling Brown poems . . Academy of American Poets

Lucille Clifton:

• Lucille Clifton, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Frederick Douglass:

• On-line e-text Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Frederick Douglass as Transcendentalist
• Frederick Douglass Papers . . Indiana / Purdue Univ.
• Frederick Douglass Biography . . Rochester Univ.
• Frederick Douglass Biography

W.E.B. Du Bois:

• Electronic Texts by W.E.B DuBois
• Souls of Black Folk -- Electronic Text . . Univ. of Virginia
• W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center Home Page
• DuBois Biography
  
• Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk
  
• Review of Souls of Black Folk
  
• Essays and Sketches by W.E. B Dubois
  
• Full-text of The Philadelphia Negro
  

Paul Laurence Dunbar:

• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Ralph Ellison

• Ellison's Interview of a Harlem resident praising invisibility. . The Writer's Project
• Ellison Papers . . Library of Congress
• Letters from Ellison to Lowry Ware FONT SIZE = "2"> . . Univ. of South Carolina
• Excerpt from Juneteenth . . reading at Lewis & Clark

Olaudah Equiano:

• Olaudah Equiano: an encyclopedic site with bibliography
• Equiano Background, Experiences, and Travel . . Princeton
• Bibliography: Equiano's Interesting Narrative
• Resource Bank page on Equiano . . Public Broadcasting

Lorraine Hansberry

• Penguin guide to Raisin in the Sun

Ernest Gaines: listed when we find them

Nikki Giovanni:

• Poem ("you see, my whole life") . . Giovanni poem, Virginia Tech
• "Hands for Mother's Day" . . Giovanni poem, Virginia Tech
• "Legacies" . . Giovanni poem, Virginia Tech
• "Beautiful Black Men" . . Giovanni poem, Virginia Tech
• "Nikki-Rosa" . . Giovanni poem, Virginia Tech

Michael Harper:

• Michael Harper, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Langston Hughes:

• Collected Works of Langston Hughes at the University of Vermont
• Langston Hughes on the Missouri Author's Page...well worth a visit.
• Langston Hughes page at the University of Texas....good on jazz and Harlem Renaissance.
• Langston Hughes page at the University of Texas---test this site
• Student comments on Hughes's poem, "Jazzonia"...Univ. of Texas
• Student essay on Hughes...Jeffery Maass & Marcus Stavchansky, Univ. of Texas, Spring 1997
• Hughes Bibliography...from Perspectives on American Literature, Calif. State, Stanislaus

Zora Neale Hurston

• An Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. by Rita Hooks
• Backgrounds for understanding Zora Neale Hurston's work.
• Story excerpts and context for Zora Neale Hurston
• "Conjured Into Being" -- a paper by Rita Hooks on Their Eyes Were Watching God
• "Women's Roles in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain "-- an essay by Bryan D. Bourn
• Every Tub Must Sit on its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora
  Hurston.
• Four essays on Hurston's "Sweat"
• Poetic Images in Zora Neale Hurston by Rita Hooks
• Conjuring, an essa on Hurston's collecting of conjuring lore
• Tim Gallaher's page on Zora Neale Hurston

James Weldon Johnson: tba

Etheridge Knight:

• Etheridge Knight, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Audre Lorde:

• Audre Lorde, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Nate Mackey:

• tba

Claude McKay:

• Claude McKay, Modern American Poetry

Toni Morrison

Materials on Beloved (notify me if sites prove to be unavailable):
• Penguin bibliography concerning Beloved
• Topics which explain some aspects of Beloved
• Information on Morrison and Beloved
  
  Related Topics --
• Toni Morrison Page
• Toni Morrison Speech on Public Education
• A Bibliography concerning all of Morrison's Books
• A chronology of Toni Morrison's life
• Toni Morrison and the mission of storytelling
• Conversation with Toni Morrison on her novels
• Morrison's Nobel Prize Speech
• Toni Morrison page, Switzerland
• Toni Morrison page, Univ. of Connecticut
• ...on The Bluest Eye
• Helpful topics when reading Song of Solomon
• Helpful topics when reading Sula
• How to read Jazz
• Another essay on Jazz
• Postmodernism in Tar Baby
• ...on Race-ing, essays on the Clarence Thomas controversy ed., Morrison
• A Reaction to a Morrison Reading

Harryette Mullen:

• Harryette Mullen, Modern American Poetry

Ann Petry:

• Ann Petry, Hall of Black Achievement . . Bridgewater State College
• Research and Reference: Ann Petry . . Stanislaus (Cal) State College
• Ann Petry Web Links . . St. Martin's Press
• Ann Petry: biog. sketch . . Northeast Magazine

Ishmael Reed:

• Ishmael Reed, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Jean Toomer:

• Jean Toomer, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

Sojourner Truth:

• tba

Gusavus Vasa --> see Oloudah Equiano above

David Walker:

• tba

Phillis Wheatley: tba

Richard Wright:

• Richard Wright, Modern American Poetry . . Univ. of Illinois

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