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The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
By Amy Schmidt (Editor), Julie Buckner Armstrong (Editor), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Charles W. Chesnutt (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Claude McKay (Contribution by), Lillian Smith (Contribution by), Langston Hughes (Contribution by), Erskine Caldwell (Contribution by), Richard Wright (Contribution by), Ralph Ellison (Contribution by), Eudora Welty (Contribution by), Robert Hayden (Contribution by), Margaret Walker (Contribution by), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contribution by), James Baldwin (Contribution by), Flannery O'Connor (Contribution by), Audre Lorde (Contribution by), Estate of Lucille Clifton (Contribution by), June Jordan (Contribution by), Michael S. Harper (Contribution by), Haki Madhubuti (Contribution by), Nikki Giovanni (Contribution by), Constance Curry (Contribution by), Toi Derricotte (Contribution by), Wanda Coleman (Contribution by), Marilyn Nelson (Contribution by), Rita Dove (Contribution by), Anthony Grooms (Contribution by), Cyrus Cassells (Contribution by), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Contribution by), Frances E. W. Harper (Contribution by), Mary Burrill (Contribution by), Angelina Weld Grimké (Contribution by), Dudley Randall (Contribution by), Martin Luther King Jr. (Contribution by), Howard Sackler (Contribution by), Eldridge Cleaver (Contribution by), David Hernandez (Contribution by), Bebe Moore Campbell (Contribution by), Patricia J. Williams (Contribution by), Walter Mosley (Contribution by), Amiri Baraka (Contribution by)
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By Amy Schmidt (Editor), Julie Buckner Armstrong (Editor), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Charles W. Chesnutt (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Claude McKay (Contribution by), Lillian Smith (Contribution by), Langston Hughes (Contribution by), Erskine Caldwell (Contribution by), Richard Wright (Contribution by), Ralph Ellison (Contribution by), Eudora Welty (Contribution by), Robert Hayden (Contribution by), Margaret Walker (Contribution by), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contribution by), James Baldwin (Contribution by), Flannery O'Connor (Contribution by), Audre Lorde (Contribution by), Estate of Lucille Clifton (Contribution by), June Jordan (Contribution by), Michael S. Harper (Contribution by), Haki Madhubuti (Contribution by), Nikki Giovanni (Contribution by), Constance Curry (Contribution by), Toi Derricotte (Contribution by), Wanda Coleman (Contribution by), Marilyn Nelson (Contribution by), Rita Dove (Contribution by), Anthony Grooms (Contribution by), Cyrus Cassells (Contribution by), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Contribution by), Frances E. W. Harper (Contribution by), Mary Burrill (Contribution by), Angelina Weld Grimké (Contribution by), Dudley Randall (Contribution by), Martin Luther King Jr. (Contribution by), Howard Sackler (Contribution by), Eldridge Cleaver (Contribution by), David Hernandez (Contribution by), Bebe Moore Campbell (Contribution by), Patricia J. Williams (Contribution by), Walter Mosley (Contribution by), Amiri Baraka (Contribution by)
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This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-68 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, and equality. In ways that historical documents cannot, th...
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