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“If you don't know my name, you don't know your own.” -- James Baldwin Featuring 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.
Contributors Include:Sterling A. Brown
Charles W. Chesnutt
John Henrik Clarke
Countee Cullen
Frederick Douglass
Paul Laurence Dunbar
James Weldon Johnson
Naomi Long Madgett
Paule Marshall
Clarence Major
Claude McKay
Ann Petry
Dudley Randall
J. Saunders Redding
Jean Toomer
Darwin T. TurnerAs well as:Lerone Bennett, Jr.Frank London BrownArthur P. DavisFrank Marshall DavisOwen DodsonMari EvansRudolph FisherDan GeorgakasRobert HaydenFrank HorneBlyden JacksonLance JeffersFenton JohnsonGeorge E. KentAlain LockeDiane OliverStanley SandersRichard G. SternSterling StuckeyMelvin B. Tolson