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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Autobiografía Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X
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The fire next time by James Baldwin
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Black Boy by Richard Wright
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
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Strength to love by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Subjects

African Americans, History and criticism, American literature, Intellectual life, African Americans in literature, American poetry, Biography, American fiction, History, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Women authors, Poetry, African american authors, African American women, American Authors, American drama, Fiction, Literary collections, Auteurs noirs américains, African americans in literature

Places

United States, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (State), Southern States, Africa, USA, Schwarze, English-speaking countries, Caribbean Area, N.Y.) Harlem (New York, California, New York (N.Y.), Chicago, France, Louisiana, Illinois, Washington (D.C.), Michigan, West Indies

People

James Baldwin (1924-1987), Maya Angelou, Richard Wright (1908-1960), Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1944-), Toni Morrison (1931-2019), Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer (1894-1967), Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

Times

20th century, 19th century, 21st century, 18th century, 20e siècle, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, To 1964, 1783-1850, To 1863, Civil War, 1861-1865

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Maya Angelou, 32 books
J. E. Franklin, 29 books
Langston Hughes, 26 books
Nikki Giovanni, 20 books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 19 books
Harold Bloom, 19 books
Houston A. Baker, 18 books
Arnold Adoff, 16 books
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 14 books
Trudier Harris, 14 books
Darwin T. Turner, 13 books
Amiri Baraka, 13 books
William L. Andrews, 11 books
Woodie King, 11 books
Alice Walker, 11 books
Countee Cullen, 11 books
Ed Bullins, 10 books
Clarence Major, 10 books
Gwendolyn Brooks, 9 books
James Baldwin, 9 books
Carol Taylor, 8 books
Arna Wendell Bontemps, 8 books
Richard Wright, 8 books
E. Ethelbert Miller, 8 books
Bernard W. Bell, 7 books