American Greats II: The Works of Phillis Wheatley, Ida Wells, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston

They are trailblazers, pioneers, and luminaries. This collection of Black women writers represents some of the best America has to offer in terms of courageous artists and activists willing to speak truth to power. These women did so with grace, elegance, and persuasion. Their work spans the colonial period to the twentieth century, providing a definitive glimpse of what it was like to live and write at the intersection of race, gender, and class in America. Their poetry, prose, and plays p...