The Black Experience in America: 18th-20th Century

A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.

Contents:

• Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects Administration
• Death of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Fifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson
• Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall
• Reporting - by Henry Ossian Flipper
• The Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre Damer
• Your Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
• The Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar Nelson
• Ex-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects Administration
• Where the Negro Lives - by Mary White Ovington
• Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon Johnson
• A Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson Coppin
• Sketches of the Black Baptist Church - by Various
• Lawing and Jawing - by Zora Neale Hurston
• Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. Washington
• Hot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization - by Monroe Nathan Work
• The Sunday School and Church... - by Daniel Webster Davis
• Ex-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects Administration
• Here Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley
• 'Lazy' - by James Weldon Johnson
• Of The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois.