authors and publications CLCV 224

David Walker

– Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829)

Anna Julia Cooper – A Voice from the South (1892)

A foundational Black feminist text advocating education and equality for Black women. Cooper argued that the progress of African Americans—and of society as a whole—depended on the uplift and empowerment of women.

Pauline Hopkins

– Contending Forces (1900)

Booker T. Washington

– Up from Slavery (1901)

W. E. B. Du Bois

– The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Carter G. Woodson

– The Journal of Negro History (1916)

Countee Cullen

– The Medea (1935)

Richard Wright

– Native Son (1940)

Martin Luther King Jr.

– Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)

– The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

Eldridge Cleaver

– Soul on Ice (1968)

Frank Snowden

– Blacks in Antiquity (1970)

James Baldwin

– If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)