Early African American Lit.
It is the oldest known piece of African-American literature
What is "Bar's Fight by Lucy Terry?
This genre of African-American literature developed in the mid-19th century and was written by fugitive slaves.
What are slave narratives?
He was the founder of the NAACP and the author of "The Souls of Black Folk".
Who is W. E. B. DuBois?
Langston Hughes wrote this poem when he was just a teen and it is perhaps his most famous poem.
What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
He was the author of many books and short stories, such as "Black Boy" "The Outsider" and "Native Son"
Who is Richard Wright?
She was the first African-American to publish a book and achieve international attention as a writer.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
She co-wrote a narrative that was a major contribution to both the slave narratives and the female spiritual narrative.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
She was a former slave and dressmaker who worked for Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd.
Who was Elizabeth Keckley?
She went "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" and re-discovered her work in the 1970's.
Who is Alice Walker?
Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez are just three of the many literary artists who belong to this category.
What are black female poets?
It is the first known piece of fiction written by an African-American who was a free person of color named Victor Sejour.
What is "Le Mulatre" or "The Mulatto"?
Besides, Frederick Douglass' autobiography, it is one of the two best-known slave narratives.
What is "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs?
He is the author of "Up From Slavery" and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
It is the figure of speech (metaphor) used to describe the period known as the Harlem Renaissance.
What is "a flowering of literature and art" / "a flowering of social thought and culture"?
It was a large movement of African-Americans (from the South to the North) that took place between World War I and World War II.
What was The Great Migration?
It is considered to be the first novel written by an African-American named William Wells Brown.
What is "Clotel" or "The President's Daughter"?
This genre of early African-American literature focused on combating immoral, racist or sexist literature/discourse.
What is the spiritual narrative?
She wrote "Eliza Harris" which was a 'clap-back' response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Francis Watkins Harper?
He wrote a book about intraracial prejudice between lighter-skinned and dark-skinned African Americans called "The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life".
Who is Wallace Thurman?
In addition to writing deep, personal stories, James Baldwin also wrote about these two identities, neither of which were accepted in American culture.
What are being black and being homosexual?
She was the author of the first African-American novel to be published in the United States, "Our Nig".
Who is Harriet Wilson?
These are the three forms (or types) in which slave narratives can be broadly categorized.
What are "tales of religious redemption," "tales to inspire the abolitionist struggle" and "tales of progress"?
He was a nationally recognized poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer who often wrote in rural black dialects.
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
A period of time when African-American literature, black fine art and performance art began to be recognized and appreciated in mainstream American culture
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
It is a collection of essays written by James Baldwin because he was so impressed with the man he called "the greatest Black writer in the world," Richard Wright.
What is "Notes of a Native Son"?