Anthologies of African American Writing

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by the People Who Lived It

"Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by the People Who Lived It." Ed. Herb Boyd. Foreword Gordon Parks. New York: Doubleday, 2000. xviii+549 pp.

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James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1710-?) -- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) -- John Cuffe (c.1755-?) -- Richard Allen (1760-1831) -- Old Elizabeth (1766-?) -- Jupiter Hammon (c.1711-1806) -- Belinda (c. 1717-?) -- Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) -- Prince Hall (1748-1797) -- Jenny Proctor (c. 1845-?) -- Peter Williams (?-1849) -- Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790-?) -- Austin Steward (1793-1860) -- Nat Turner (1800-1831) -- Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) -- Harriet Jacobs (1815?-1897) -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) -- John Parker (1827-1900) -- Osborne Anderson (1830-1872) -- Mattie J. Jackson (1800-?) -- William Wells Brown (1814-1884) -- Robert Purvis (1810-1898) -- Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) -- Elizabeth Keckley (1824-1907) -- John Boston (c. 1842-?) -- Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) -- Ann (c. 1835-?) -- Octave Johnson (1840-?) -- Patsey Leach (1843-?) -- John Mercer Langston (1829-1879) -- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) -- Samuel Larkin (c. 1840-?) -- John R. Lynch (1847-1939) -- Booker T. Washington (1857?-1915) -- Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) -- Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858/9-1964) -- Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) -- Matthew Henson (1866-1955) -- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) -- Jack Johnson (1878-1946) -- Ethel Waters (1896-1977) -- Addie Hunton (1875-1943) -- Harry Haywood (1898-1985) -- Era Bell Thompson (1906-1986) -- Dorothy West (1909-1998) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) -- Langston Hughes (1898-1967) -- Howard "Stretch" Johnson (1915- ) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Pauli Murray (1910-1985) -- Nate Shaw (c. 1900- ) -- Haywood Patterson (1913-1952) -- James Cameron (1914- ) -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972) -- Conrad Lynn (1908-1995) -- Marian Anderson (1900-1993) -- Nelson Peery (1923- ) -- Althea Gibson (1927- ) -- A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) -- Clarence Atkins (1922- ) -- Charles Denby (1907-1983) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Coleman Young (1918-1998) -- Curtis Morrow (1933- ) -- Jane (1914- ) -- Paul Robeson (1898-1976) -- Sunnie Wilson (1908-1999) -- Coretta Scott King (1927- ) -- Constance Baker Motley (1921- ) -- Rosa Parks (1913- ) -- Ella Baker (1903-1986) -- James Forman (1928- ) -- Melba Pattillo Beals (1942- ) -- Ossie Davis (1917- ) and Ruby Dee (1924- ) -- Anne Moody (1940- ) -- Sharon Robinson (1950- ) -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) -- General Gordon Baker (1942- ) -- Gordon Parks (1912- ) -- David Parks (1944- ) -- Kwame Ture (1941-1998) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) -- H. Rap Brown (1943- ) -- Angela Davis (1944- ) -- George Jackson (1941-1971) -- Elaine Brown (1943- ) -- Randall Robinson (1941- ) -- LL Cool J (1968- ) -- Jonnie Cochran (1938- ) -- Margaret Walker (1915- ) -- Lee Stringer (1950- ) -- Sam Fulwood (1956- ) -- Tyrone Powers (1961- ) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1993) -- Jill Nelson (1953- ) -- Johnetta B. Cole (1936- ) -- Max Roach (1924- ) -- Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) -- Colin L. Powell (1937- ) -- Al Sharpton (1954- ) -- Bari-Ellen Roberts (1953- ) -- Anita Hill (1950- ) -- Gary Franks (1953- ) -- James McBride (1957- ) -- Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956- ) -- Kevin Powell (1966- ) -- Rev. Bernice King (1963- ).

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