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• The Fire in the Flint (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scarlet Sister Mary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1928), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Black April (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1927), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Louis P. Le Vin
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at NIU
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The "Negro in Georgia": Another "Pamphlet" Called Forth by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey's Slanderous Document, Scattered Broadcast Over the Country, and In Which He Purported to Set Forth the Brutal Treatment Accorded the Negro by White Citizens of Georgia, the "American Belgian Congo" (ca. 1921), by Caleb A. Ridley and Dixie Defense Committee (Georgia Division) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Image Magazine (Athens, GA, 1977-1979) (partial serial archives)

• The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. (1894), by Edward R. Carter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888 (Savannah, Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1888.), by E. K. Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The "Negro in Georgia": Another "Pamphlet" Called Forth by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey's Slanderous Document, Scattered Broadcast Over the Country, and In Which He Purported to Set Forth the Brutal Treatment Accorded the Negro by White Citizens of Georgia, the "American Belgian Congo" (ca. 1921), by Caleb A. Ridley and Dixie Defense Committee (Georgia Division) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• The Herald (Georgia Teachers and Education Association) (partial serial archives)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Darkness and the Devil Behind Me (2007), by Persia Walker (PDF with commentary at persiawalker.com)
• The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), by Rudolph Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama Writer of the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by George Wylie Henderson, ed. by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 (originally published 1931; this edition New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), by George S. Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 (originally published 1931; this edition College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co., 1969), by George S. Schuyler (Gutenberg text)
• The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist (third edition, reprint; New York: AMS Press, 1969), by Sutton E. Griggs, illust. by Robert E. Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mansart Builds a School (The Black Flame, book 2; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1959), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Run, Zebra, Run! A Story of American Race Conflict (New York: Exposition Press, c1959), by Leon Raymond Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worlds of Color (The Black Flame, book 3; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1959), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corner Boy: A Novel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1957), by Herbert Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Band Will Not Play Dixie: A Novel of Suspense (New York: Exposition Press, c1955), by Theodore Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Clutches of Cicrumstances (New York: Pageant Press, c1954), by Thomas P. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• False Measure: A Satirical Novel of the Lives and Objectives of Upper Middle-Class Negroes (New York: William-Frederick Press, 1954), by Charles A. Smythwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scandal at Daybreak (New York: Pageant Press, c1954), by Elizabeth West Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange Sinner (New York: Pageant Press, c1954), by Elsie Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case 999: A Christmas Story (Boston: Meador Pub. Co. c1953), by Anne Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Waiters (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., c1953), by William Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wasted Travail (New York: Vantage Press, c1951), by Sadie Mae Rosebrough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Masquerade: An Historical Novel (second edition; New York: Book Supply Co., c1947), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Third Ward Newark (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., c1946), by Curtis Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate (7th edition; New York: Book Supply Co., c1945), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress (10 plays written between 1925 and 1944), by Zora Neale Hurston (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Dove Flies South (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1943), by James A. Hyland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wind From Nowhere (New York: Book Supply Co., 1941), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eneas Africanus (with a memoir of the author by his daughter; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1940), by Harry Stillwell Edwards, contrib. by Roxilane Edwards, illust. by Ernest N. Townsend (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Aunt Sara's Wooden God (College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co, c1938), by Mercedes Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• River George (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1937), by George W. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• These Low Grounds (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1937), by Waters E. Turpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Candy (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934), by L. M. Alexander, illust. by Rockwell Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hit: A Novel (New York: Vanguard Press, c1957), by Julian Mayfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aggie (New York: Vantage Press, c1955), by Lillie Muse Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences; With Other Stories, by Frank R. Stockton (Gutenberg text)
• As We See It (Washington: Press of C. F. Sudwarth, 1910), by Robert L. Waring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones: A Story Dealing With Some of the Problems Affecting the Political Rewards Due the Negro (Hopkinsville, KY: Phil H. Brown, 1916), by John Edward Bruce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Black Adonis (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1896), by Albert Ross (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham (Cleveland: Caxton Book Co., 1902), by Benjamin Rush Davenport, illust. by J. H. Donahey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cane (New York: Liveright, c1923), by Jean Toomer, contrib. by Waldo David Frank
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Climbers: A Story of Sun-Kissed Sweethearts (Chicago: Glad Tidings Pub. Co., c1912), by Yorke Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Come Seven (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Octavus Roy Cohen, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Boston: Colored Co-Operative Pub. Co., 1900), by Pauline E. Hopkins, illust. by Robert Emmett Owen
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dark Laughter (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devil Tales (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Virginia Frazer Boyle, illust. by A. B. Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Doctor Huguet: A Novel (Chicago: F. J. Schulte and Co., c1891), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That His Book Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), by E. K. Means, illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Eneas Africanus (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1920), by Harry Stillwell Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• Ezekiel (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Lucy Pratt, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Folks From Dixie (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races (Lincoln, NE: Western Book Supply Co., 1915), by Oscar Micheaux, illust. by C. W. Heller
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Further E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Third Book, Like the First and Second, Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1921), by E. K. Means, illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hagar the Martyr, or, Passion and Reality: A Tale of the North and South (Boston: W. P. Fetridge and Co., 1855), by H. Marion Stephens (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (reprint; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904), by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Gutenberg text)
• Hope's Highway: A Novel (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible (New York: H. Dayton, 1860), by Mary Langdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Immediate Jewel of His Soul: A Romance (St. Louis: St. Louis Argus Pub. Co., 1919), by Herman Dreer (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Old Plantation Days (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1903), by Paul Laurence Dunbar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• J. Poindexter, Colored (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lady Luck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1921), by Hugh Wiley (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Light Ahead for the Negro (New York: Grafton Press, c1904), by Edward A. Johnson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lily (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), by Hugh Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meat Man: A Romance of Life, of Love, of Labor (Chicago: Judy Pub. Co., c1923), by Moses Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnie's Sacrifice (from a reprint; originally published 1869), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Gutenberg text)
• More E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not, It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Second Book, Like the First, Needs No Title (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), by E. K. Means, illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Negro Folk Lore Stories: What Aunt Dorcas Told Little Elsie (Charlotte, NC: Queen City Printing Co., c1923), by Sallie Southall Cotten
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Neither Bond Nor Free (A Plea) (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co., c1902), by George Langhorne Pryor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife; With Other Sketches (San Francisco: Cuddy and Hughes, 1871), by Thomas Detter (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Old Greenbottom Inn, and Other Stories (1906), by George Marion McClellan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our World: or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Out of the Darkness: or, Diabolism and Destiny (Nashville: National Baptist Pub. Board, 1909), by J. W. Grant (multiple formats at Google)
• Overshadowed: A Novel (Nashville: Orion Pub. Co., 1901), by Sutton E. Griggs
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Pointing the Way (Nashville: Orion Pub. Co., 1908), by Sutton E. Griggs (multiple formats at archve.org)
• The Prince of Washington Square: An Up-to-the-Minute Story (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1925), by Harry F. Liscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prowler (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Hugh Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Red Lottery Ticket (London: Vizetelly and Co., 1887), by Fortuné Du Boisgobey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Resentment (Philadelphia: Printed by A. M. E. Book Concern, ca.1921), by Mary Etta Spencer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Samantha Among the Colored Folks: "My Ideas on the Race Problem" (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1894), by Marietta Holley, illust. by E. W. Kemble
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sister Jane, Her Friends and Acquaintances: A Narrative of Certain Events and Episodes Transcribed from the Papers of the Late William Wornum ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Smoking Flax, by Hallie Erminie Rives (HTML at Emory)
• Sowing and Reaping (from a reprint; originally published 1876-1877), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Gutenberg text)
• The Strength of Gideon, and Other Stories (1900), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illust. by E. W. Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Trial and Triumph (from a reprint; originally published 1888-1889), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Gutenberg text)
• A Waif, a Prince, or, A Mother's Triumph: An Egyptian Story of Fiction and Fact (Nashville: Pub. House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1895), by W. T. Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Who Was Responsible? (Cincinnati: Printed for the author by Abingdon Press, ca. 1919), by Maggie Shaw Fullilove (multiple formats a archive.org)
• The Wildcat (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1920), by Hugh Wiley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Forbidden Fruit (New York: Universal, c1953), by Curtis Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
• The Dark Messenger (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1962), by Clarence L. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Loot (Dallas: Southwest Press, c1932), by T. H. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Night Song (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961), by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessions of a Negro Preacher (published anonymously, sometimes attributed to Opie Read; Chicago: Canterbury Press, 1928), contrib. by Opie Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark Princess: A Romance (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1928), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home to Harlem (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1928), by Claude McKay (multiple formats at Google)
• Black April (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1927), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1860), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Blake: or, The Huts of America, by Martin Robison Delany (HTML at Virginia)
• Hatchie, the Guardian Slave: or, The Heiress of Bellevue (1853), by Warren T. Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Kaloolah: The Adventures of Jonathan Romer (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by William Starbuck Mayo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at archive.org
• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield, Based on a Great Insurance Swindle, and a Woman! (New York: Book Supply Co., 1946), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Serfdom and American Slavery (New York: H. Long and Brother, 1854), by Lucien Bonaparte Chase (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches, by Joel Chandler Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Garies and Their Friends, by Frank J. Webb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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