Poetry
This person wrote Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington
One of Zora Neal Hurston's most known books including characters like Tea Cake and Janie
What is "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
One of the most popular black owned periodicals, This magazine started by John H Johnson has a title that is typically synonymous with black
What is Ebony
This author of The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Who is Tupac Shakur
Wrote "I Too Sing America"
Langston Hughes
This person wrote Roots and assisted Malcolm X in writing his autobiography.
Alex Haley
James Baldwin's most known work about a young man that is falsely accused of a crime and is put in jail.
What is "If Beale Street Could Talk"
This popular magazine was started by Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth and Jonathan Blount in 1968 and has a name meaning the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something
What is Essence
This author wrote a book with a two word name which includes a gender and a color
What is Black Boy by Richard Wright
Jamaican-born writer of "If We Must Die"
Claude McKay
This person was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and also wrote the Souls of Black Folk.
Dr. W.E.B. Dubois
The title of the novel by Chinua Achebe comes from a line in W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". Includes the character Onkonkwo
What is "Things Fall Apart"
This author wrote mainly of female protagonist such as Celia
Who is Alice Walker
Amanda Gorman
This person wrote Between the World and Me dedicated to his young son.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The author wrote books Beloved and The Bluest Eye
Who is Toni Morrison
An African tribal musician, storyteller, preserver of the genealogies and oral traditions of the tribe. It is said that when this person passes away it is as if a library has been burned.
A Griot
Author of A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry