It is the oldest known piece of African-American literature

This genre of African-American literature developed in the mid 19th century and was written by fugitive slaves.

He was the founder of the NAACP and the author of "The Souls of Black Folk".

Langston Hughes wrote this poem when he was just a teen and it is perhaps his most famous poem.

He was the author of many books and short stories, such as "Black Boy" "The Outsider" and "Native Son".

She was the first African-American to publish a book. and achieve an international attention as a writer.

She co-wrote a narrative that was a major contribution to both the slave narrative and the female spiritual narratives.

She was a former slave and dressmaker who worked for Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln;

She went "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" and rediscovered her work in the 1970's.

Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez are just three of many women who belong to this category of artists.

The first known fiction written by an African-American who a free person of color named Victor Sejour.

Besides Frederick Douglass's autobiography, it is one of the two best-known slave narratives.

He was the author of "Up From Slavery" and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama.

It is the figure of speech (figurative language) used to describe the Harlem Renaissance: 'a flowering of literature and art; a flowering of social thought and culture'.

A large movement of African Americans, from the South to the North, that took place between World War I and World War II.

It is considered to be the first novel written by an African-American named William Wells Brown.

This genre of early African-American literature focused on combating immoral, racist or sexist literature/discourse.

She wrote "Eliza Harris" which was a (clap-back) response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

He wrote a novel which focused on prejudice between lighter-skinned and darker-skinned African Americans called "The Black the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life".

In addition to writing deep, personal stories, James Baldwin also wrote about these two identities, neither of which were accepted by American culture.

She was the author of the first African-American novel to be published in the United States, "Our Nig".

These are the three forms (or types) in which slave narratives can be broadly categorized.

He was a nationally recognized poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer who often wrote in rural black dialect

A period of when African-American literature, black fine art and performance art began to be recognized and appreciated into mainstream American culture.

it is a collection of essays, written by James Baldwin because he was so impressed with the man he called "the greatest Black writer in the world," (Richard Wright).