Great African American Authors

This breakthrough eight part series, Great African American Authors, tells the amazing story of the evolution of the African American literary tradition in the United States from the founding of Jamestown to the first two decades of the 21st Century.

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Individual Programs	SKU	Term	Price
Program 1: 1761 - 1901 1761 - Jupiter Hammon, America's First Published Black Writer 1773 - Phillis Wheatley Completes Her Poems on Various Subjects 1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom 1899 - Paul Laurence Dunbar's 'Sympathy' 1901 - Booker T. Washington's Autobiography, Up From Slavery	AAA-001	$27.50/yr
Program 2: 1902 - 1924 1903 - W.E.B. Du Bois Pens The Souls of Black Folk 1912 - James Weldon Johnson Writes About Black Identity 1919 - Alain LeRoy Locke, Architect of the Harlem Renaissance 1921 - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes 1924 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, Interpreter of Black Culture	AAA-002	$27.50/yr
Program 3: 1925 - 1937 1925 - Countee Cullen Pens 'Heritage' 1928 - Jessie Redmon Fauset Publishes Plum Bun 1932 - Sterling A. Brown, Master of Dialect 1936 - Arna Bontemps, Black Thunder 1937 - Zora Neale Hurston Completes Their Eyes Were Watching God	AAA-003	$27.50/yr
Program 4: 1938 - 1953 1940 - Richard Wright, Father of Black Protest Fiction 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks, First Black Pulitzer Prize Recipient 1953 - Ralph Ellison Wins National Book Award 1953 - James Baldwin Writes Go Tell It on the Mountain	AAA-004	$27.50/yr
Program 5: 1954 - 1967 1957 - Chester Himes, First Black Crime Fiction Writer 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is Produced 1965 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965 - Amiri Baraka, Father of the Black Arts Movement 1967 - Nikki Giovanni, "Princess of Black Poetry"	AAA-005	$27.50/yr
Program 6: 1968 - 1982 1969 - Maya Angelou Writes Her Autobiography 1972 - Toni Cade Bambara Publishes Gorilla, My Love 1973 - Alice Childress, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich 1975 - Ed Bullins Premieres The Taking of Miss Janie 1976 - Alex Haley's Groundbreaking Roots 1982 - Gloria Naylor Celebrates the Black Woman	AAA-006	$27.50/yr
Program 7: 1982 - 1993 1982 - Alice Walker Writes The Color Purple 1987 - Lucille Clifton's Poetry Celebrates the Female Body 1987 - August Wilson Wins Pulitzer for Fences 1988 - Yusef Komunyakaa Pens 'Facing It' 1990 - Walter Mosley Introduces Easy Rawlins 1993 - Toni Morrison Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature	AAA-007	$27.50/yr
Program 8: 1993 - Present 1993 - Ernest J. Gaines Completes A Lesson Before Dying 1993 - Rita Dove is Appointed Poet Laureate of the United States 2001 - Cornelius Eady Writes Brutal Imagination 2002 - Suzan - Lori Parks Wins Pulitzer for Topdog/Underdog 2012 - Natasha Trethewey and the New Wave	AAA-008	$27.50/yr

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