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• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors -- Bibliography
• American literature -- Bio-bibliography

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• Black writers in New England : a bibliography, with biographical notes, of books by and about Afro-American writers associated with New England in the collection of Afro-American literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1985), by Edward Clark and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Catholic writers, 1900-1943 (W. Romig & company, 1945), by M. Anthony Scally (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Writers in New England: A Bibliography, With Biographical Notes, of Books by and About Afro-American Writers Associated with New England in the Collection of Afro-American Literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site (Boston: National Park Service, 1985), by Edward Clark (PDF with commentary at Suffolk)

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• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• 75 years of freedom; commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (U. S. Govt. print off., 1943), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1929), by Benjamin Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays of negro life : a source-book of native American drama,. (Harper & brothers, 1927), by Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyrics of love and laughter (Dodd, Mead, 1903), by Paul Laurence Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyrics of lowly life (New York : Dodd, Mead, 1907., 1907), by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Paul R. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• School books and racial antagonism : a study of omissions and inclusions that make for misunderstanding (Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1935), by Robert B. Eleazar and Conference on Education and Race Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dunbar speaker and entertainer : containing the best prose and poetic selections by and about the Negro race : with programs arranged for special entertainments (Naperville, Ill. : J. L. Nichols & Co., [1920], 1920), by Carter Godwin Woodson, James V. Hatch, Camille Billops, Edward Tully Garrett, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Afro-American school speaker and gems of literature : for school commencements, literary circles, debating clubs, and rhetoricals generally (M. V. Lynk Pub. House, 1896), by Miles V. Lynk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black American writers (Sangamon State University Library, 1973), by Kathryn Harris and Sangamon State University. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ebony and topaz : a collectanea (New York : Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, [c1927], 1927), by Guy Benton Johnson, Paul Green, and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nellie Brown, or, The jealous wife : with other sketches (Cuddy & Hughes, 1871), by Thomas Detter and Cuddy & Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists (The Fire!! Press, 1982), by Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fire!! : $b A quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists, Volume 1, Number 1, ed. by Wallace Thurman (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro literature. (s.n., 1910), by Georgia) Conference for Study of the Negro Problems (14th : 1909 : Atlanta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Black American writers (Sangamon State University Library, 1973), by Kathryn Harris and Sangamon State University. Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A decade of Negro self-expression ([Charlottesville, Va.], 1928), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leur facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature; suivies de notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des nègres qui se sont distingués dan les sciences, les lettres et les arts (Maradan, 1808), by Henri Grégoire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A decade of Negro self-expression ([Charlottesville, Va.], 1928), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Saturday Evening Quill (partial serial archives)
• The Messenger (New York: Messenger Pub. Co., 1917-1928) (partial serial archives)
• The Rainbow. (New York, N.Y. : Rainbow Pub. Co., [1919-], 1919), by Aubrey Howard Bowser (page images at HathiTrust)
• McGirt's magazine. (Philadelphia : McGirt Pub. Co., 1903-, 1903), by James E. McGirt and John Edward Bruce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• From newsboy and bellhop to playwright. (s.n., 1925), by Garland Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black teacher and the drama. Report on an Institute in Repertory Theatre operated under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education for potential teachers of disadvantaged youth in cooperation with the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (University of California, 1969), by William R. Reardon and Santa Barbara. Department of Dramatic Art. Institute in Black Repertory Theatre University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fool's errand : play in one act (S. French, 1927), by Eulalie Spence (page images at HathiTrust)

• The heart of Happy Hollow (New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904., 1904), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, E. W. Kemble, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fanatics (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901), by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical romance of the American Negro (Press of Thomas & Evans, 1902), by Charles H. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical romance of the American Negro (Press of Thomas & Evans, 1902), by Charles Henry Fowler and Nicholas Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

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