The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Nella Larsen, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, Louis Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jane Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet E. Wilson, Mary Prince, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Henry Box Brown, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, Seth Concklin, Harry Grimes, Matilda Mahoney, Aunt Hannah Moore, John Henry Hill, Theophilus Collins, Mary Frances Melvin, Charles Gilbert, James Hambleton Christian, Samuel Green, Alfred S. Thornton, Jamie Griffin
