Black Voices - Various

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This anthology featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism features contributions from noted African-American writers such as Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more, presenting some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. nIf you don't know my name, you don't know your own.--James Baldwin nFeaturing fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today's African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. n nContributors Include: nSterling A. Brown nCharles W. Chesnutt nJohn Henrik Clarke nCountee Cullen nFrederick Douglass nPaul Laurence Dunbar nJames Weldon Johnson nNaomi Long Madgett nPaule Marshall nClarence Major nClaude McKay nAnn Petry nDudley Randall nJ. Saunders Redding nJean Toomer nDarwin T. Turner n nAs well as: nLerone Bennett, Jr. nFrank London Brown nArthur P. Davis nFrank Marshall Davis nOwen Dodson nMari Evans nRudolph Fisher nDan Georgakas nRobert Hayden nFrank Horne nBlyden Jackson nLance Jeffers nFenton Johnson nGeorge E. Kent nAlain Locke nDiane Oliver nStanley Sanders nRichard G. Stern nSterling Stuckey nMelvin B. Tolson nn