In 1918, Joseph Seaman Cotter, Jr., a promising young African-American poet who later died at the age of twenty-four, published a poem in which he prayed, "O God, give me words ...

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America ...

This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its ...

* 50 complete documents present Afro-American history from colonial times to present day..* Includes speeches, articles, reports, and poetry from figures like: Frederick ...