African-American Writers

by Hatch, Shari Dorantes; Strickland, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780874369595
• ISBN10: 0874369592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, African American Writers examines a multitude of black cultural leaders from the 18th century to the present.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Dorothy Strickland
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
African-American Writers
Abbott, Robert S.	1	(1)
Abu-Jamal, Mumia	2	(1)
Ai Ogawa, Florence	2	(1)
Allen, Richard	2	(1)
Allen, Samuel W.	3	(1)
Amini, Johari	4	(1)
Anderson, Regina M.	4	(1)
Andrews, Raymond	4	(1)
Angelou, Maya	4	(2)
Asante, Molefi Kete	6	(1)
Ashe, Arthur	6	(1)
Attaway, William	7	(1)
Aubert, Alvin	7	(2)
Baker, Augusta	9	(1)
Baker, Houston A.	9	(1)
Baldwin, James	10	(3)
Baltimore Afro-American	13	(1)
Bambara, Toni Cade	14	(1)
Banneker, Benjamin	15	(2)
Baraka, Amiri	17	(1)
Barber, Jesse Max	18	(1)
Barnett, Claude Albert	18	(1)
Barrax, Gerald W.	19	(1)
Bass, Charlotta Spears	19	(1)
Bayley, Solomon	19	(1)
Beasley, Delilah	19	(1)
Beckham, Barry	20	(1)
Bell, James Madison	20	(1)
Bennett, Gwendolyn B.	20	(1)
Bennett, Hal	21	(1)
Bennett, Lerone, Jr.	21	(1)
Berry, Mary Frances	21	(1)
Bibb, Henry	21	(1)
Black Aesthetic	22	(1)
Black American Literature Forum	22	(1)
Black Arts Movement	23	(1)
Black Scholar	24	(1)
Bogle, Donald	24	(1)
Bolden, Tonya	25	(1)
Bonner, Marita	25	(1)
Bontemps, Arna Wendell	26	(4)
Bourne, St. Claire	30	(1)
Boyd, Melba	31	(1)
Bradley, David, Jr.	31	(1)
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont	31	(1)
Brandon, Barbara	32	(1)
Brawley, Benjamin	32	(1)
Braxton, Joanne M.	32	(1)
Briggs, Cyril Valentine	33	(1)
Broadside Press	33	(1)
Brooks, Gwendolyn	33	(3)
Brown, Cecil	36	(1)
Brown, ``Charlotte Eugenia''	36	(1)
Brown, Claude	36	(1)
Brown, Elaine	36	(1)
Brown, Hallie Quinn	37	(1)
Brown, Linda Beatrice	37	(1)
Brown, Sterling Allen	37	(2)
Brown, William Wells	39	(1)
Brownies' Book	40	(1)
Bryan, Ashley F.	40	(1)
Bullins, Ed	41	(2)
Bunche, Ralph	43	(1)
Burroughs, Margaret Taylor	43	(1)
Burroughs, Nannie Helen	43	(1)
Butler, Octavia E.	44	(3)
Cabrera, Lydia	47	(1)
Callaloo	47	(1)
Campbell, Bebe Moore	47	(1)
Campbell, James Edwin	47	(1)
Carmichael, Stokely	48	(1)
Carroll, Vinnette	48	(1)
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd	48	(1)
Cayton, Horace Roscoe, Jr.	49	(1)
Chapman, Tracy	50	(1)
Chase-Riboud, Barbara	50	(1)
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell	51	(1)
Child, Lydia Maria	52	(1)
Childress, Alice	53	(1)
Chisholm, Shirley	54	(1)
Clark, Kenneth B.	55	(1)
Clark, Mamie	56	(1)
Clark, Septima Poinsette	56	(1)
Clarke, John Henrik	57	(1)
Cleage, Pearl	58	(1)
Cleaver, Eldridge	59	(1)
Cliff, Michelle	59	(1)
Clifton, Lucille	60	(2)
Cobb, Charles E., Jr.	62	(1)
Cobb, Jewell Plummer	62	(1)
Cobb, William Montague	63	(1)
Coleman, Wanda	63	(1)
Colon, Jesus	63	(1)
Colored American Magazine	63	(1)
Conwell, Kathleen	63	(1)
Coooper, Anna Julia	63	(1)
Cooper, J. California	64	(1)
Cornish, Samuel E.	64	(1)
Corrothers, James D.	65	(1)
Cortez, Jayne	65	(1)
Cosby, Bill	66	(1)
Coston, Julia Ringwood	67	(1)
Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Jr.	67	(1)
Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Sr.	67	(1)
Craft, William	68	(1)
Crayton, Pearl	68	(1)
Crews, Donald	68	(1)
Crisis	68	(1)
Crosswaith, Frank Rudolph	69	(1)
Crouch, Stanley	69	(1)
Crummell, Alexander	69	(1)
Cruse, Harold Wright	70	(1)
Cullen, Countee	70	(2)
Curtis, Christopher Paul	72	(1)
Damas, Leon-Gontran	73	(1)
Danner, Margaret	73	(1)
Danticat, Edwidge	74	(1)
Dash, Julie	74	(1)
Davis, Angela Yvonne	74	(1)
Davis, Frank Marshall	74	(1)
Davis, Ossie	75	(2)
Davis, Thulani	77	(1)
Dee, Ruby	77	(2)
Delaney, Sara Marie Johnson	79	(1)
Delany, Elizabeth ``Bessie''	79	(1)
Delany, Clarissa	79	(1)
Delany, Martin R.	80	(1)
Delany, Samuel R.	80	(2)
Delany, Sarah ``Sadie''	82	(1)
Demby, William	82	(1)
Dent, Tom	83	(1)
Derricotte, Toi	84	(1)
Devaux, Alexis	84	(1)
Diddley, ``Bo''	84	(1)
Dodson, Owen	84	(1)
Domino, ``Fats''	85	(1)
Dorsey, Thomas	85	(1)
Douglass, Frederick	86	(3)
Douglass, Sarah Mapps	89	(1)
Dove, Rita	89	(2)
Drake, St. Clair	91	(1)
Driskell, David	91	(1)
Du Bois, Shirley Graham	91	(1)
Du Bois, W.E.B.	92	(3)
Dumas, Henry L.	95	(1)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence	95	(3)
Dunbar Nelson, Alice Ruth	98	(1)
Dunham, Katherine	98	(3)
Edelman, Marian Wright	101	(2)
Edmonds, Kenneth	103	(1)
Elder, Lonne, III	103	(1)
Ellison, Ralph	103	(4)
Equiano, Olaudah	107	(2)
Evans, Mari	109	(2)
Evers-Williams, Myrlie	111	(2)
Fabio, Sarah	113	(1)
Fauset, Jessie Redmon	113	(1)
Feeling, Tom	114	(1)
Fields, Julia	115	(1)
Fire!!	115	(1)
Fishburne, Laurence, III	116	(1)
Fisher, Abby	116	(1)
Fisher, Rudolph	116	(1)
Folktales	116	(3)
Forrest, Leon	119	(1)
Fortens, Grimkes, and Purvises	119	(4)
Fortune, Amos	123	(1)
Fortune, T. Thomas	123	(1)
Franklin, J. E.	124	(1)
Franklin, John Hope	124	(1)
Frazier, Edward Franklin	125	(1)
Freedom's Journal	125	(1)
French, William P.	126	(1)
Fuller, Charles H.	126	(1)
Fuller, Hoyt	127	(2)
Gaines, Ernest J.	129	(1)
Garland, Hazel B.	130	(1)
Garnet, Henry Highland	131	(2)
Garvey, Amy Jacques	133	(1)
Garvey, Marcus	133	(2)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.	135	(2)
Gayle, Addison, Jr.	137	(1)
Geddes, Norman Bel	138	(1)
Gerima, Haile	138	(1)
Gibson, P.J.	138	(1)
Giddings, Paula	138	(1)
Giovanni, Nikki	138	(2)
Goines, Donald	140	(1)
Goldberg, Whoopi	141	(1)
Golden, Martia	142	(1)
Gomez, Jewelle	142	(1)
Gordone, Charles	142	(1)
Graham, Lorenz	142	(1)
Granville, Evelyn Boyd	142	(1)
Green, J. D.	143	(1)
Greenfield, Eloise	143	(1)
Greenlee, Sam	144	(1)
Gregory, ``Dick''	144	(2)
Griggs, Sutton E.	146	(1)
Guinier, Lani	146	(1)
Guy, Rosa Cuthbert	146	(3)
Haley, Alex	149	(2)
Hamilton, Virginia	151	(2)
Hammon, Briton	153	(1)
Hammon, Jupiter	153	(1)
Handy, W. C.	154	(1)
Hansberry, Lorraine	154	(3)
Hansen, Joyce	157	(1)
Hare, Maud Cuney	157	(1)
Hare, Nathan	157	(1)
Harlem Renaissance	158	(3)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins	161	(2)
Harper, Michael S.	163	(2)
Harrington, Oliver Wendell	165	(1)
Harris, Joel Chandler	165	(1)
Haskins, James S.	165	(1)
Hayden, Robert	166	(3)
Haynes, Elizabeth Ross	169	(1)
Haynes, Lemuel	169	(1)
Heard, Nathan C.	169	(1)
Henson, Matthew Alexander	169	(1)
Hernton, Calvin C.	169	(1)
Herron, Carolivia	169	(1)
Heyward, DuBose	170	(1)
Hill, Anita Faye	170	(1)
Himes, Chester	170	(1)
Hine, Darlene Clark	171	(1)
Hoagland, Everett H., III	171	(1)
Holiday, Billie	171	(1)
hooks, bell	172	(1)
Hopkins, Pauline	173	(1)
Horton, George Moses	174	(2)
Houston, Charles	176	(1)
Houston, Drusilla Dunjee	176	(1)
Hughes, Langston	176	(3)
Hunter, Alberta	179	(1)
Hunter, Kristin Eggleston	180	(1)
Hunter, Latoya	181	(1)
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne	181	(1)
Hurston, Zora Neale	182	(3)
Huston, Jean Blackwell	185	(2)
Iceberg Slim	187	(1)
Ice-T	187	(2)
Jackson, Angela	189	(1)
Jackson, Elaine	189	(1)
Jackson, George Lester	189	(1)
Jackson, Jesse	189	(1)
Jackson, Jesse, Jr.	190	(1)
Jackson, Joseph Harrison	190	(1)
Jackson, Mae	190	(1)
Jackson, Mahalia	190	(1)
Jackson, Mattie J.	190	(1)
Jackson, Rebecca Cox	191	(1)
Jacobs, Harriet Ann	191	(2)
Jeffers, Lance	193	(1)
Joans, Ted	193	(1)
Johnson, Amelia E.	193	(1)
Johnson, Charles (Richard)	194	(1)
Johnson, Charles (Spurgeon)	194	(1)
Johnson, Fenton	195	(1)
Johnson, Georgia Douglas	196	(3)
Johnson, Helene	199	(1)
Johnson, James Weldon	199	(2)
Johnson, John H.	201	(1)
Johnson, Kathryn Magnolia	202	(1)
Johnson, William	202	(1)
Jones, Gayl	202	(1)
Jones-Meadows, Karen	203	(1)
Jordan, Barbara	203	(1)
Jordan, June	204	(2)
Josey, E.J.	206	(1)
Just, Ernest Everett	206	(1)
Keckley, Elizabeth	207	(1)
Kelley, Emma Dunham	207	(1)
Kelley, William Melvin	208	(1)
Kennedy, Adrienne	209	(2)
Killens, John Oliver	211	(1)
Kincaid, Jamaica	211	(2)
King, ``B. B.''	213	(1)
King, Coretta Scott	213	(1)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.	213	(4)
King, Woodier, Jr.	217	(1)
Knight, Etheridge	217	(2)
Komunyakaa, Yusef	219	(2)
Ladner, Joyce A.	221	(1)
Lane, Pinkie	221	(1)
Larsen, Nella	221	(1)
Latifah, Queen	222	(1)
Latimer, Catherine A.	222	(1)
Latimer, Lewis Howard	222	(1)
Lee, Andrea	223	(1)
Lee, Spike	223	(2)
Lester, Julius	225	(1)
Lewis, Samella Sanders	226	(1)
Locke, Alain	226	(3)
Logan, Rayford	229	(1)
Lomax, Louis E.	230	(1)
Lorde, Audre	230	(5)
Madgett, Naomi Long	235	(1)
Madhubuti, Haki	236	(2)
Major, Clarence	238	(1)
Malveaux, Julianne	239	(1)
Marrant, John	239	(1)
Marshall, Paule	239	(3)
Marshall, Thurgood	242	(1)
Matheus, John F.	242	(1)
Mathis, Sharon Bell	243	(1)
Matthews, Victoria Earle	243	(1)
Mayfield, Curtis	243	(1)
Mayfield, Julian	243	(1)
McElroy, Colleen	244	(1)
McGhee, ``Brownie''	244	(1)
McKay, Claude	244	(2)
McKissack, Pat	246	(1)
McMillan, Terry	247	(4)
McPherson, James Alan	251	(1)
Meriwether, Louise	252	(1)
Merrick, Lyda Moore	253	(1)
Micheaux, Oscar	253	(1)
Miller, E. Ethellbert	254	(1)
Miller, May	254	(2)
Millican, Arthenia J. Bates	256	(1)
Milner, Ronald	256	(1)
Mitchell, Loften	256	(1)
Moody, Anne	256	(1)
Moore, Opal	257	(1)
Morgan, Garrett A.	257	(1)
Morrison, Toni	257	(3)
Mosley, Walter	260	(1)
Mossell, Gertrude Bustill	261	(1)
Motley, Willard	261	(1)
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne	261	(1)
Murphy, Beatrice M.	262	(1)
Murphy, Carl	262	(1)
Murray, Albert L.	262	(2)
Murray, ``Pauli''	264	(1)
Myers, Walter Dean	265	(4)
Naylor, Gloria	269	(2)
Neal, ``Larry''	271	(1)
Neely, Barbara	271	(1)
Negro Digest	271	(1)
Negro World	271	(1)
Nell, William C.	272	(1)
Newsome, Effie Lee	272	(1)
Nugent, Richard Bruce	272	(1)
Oliver, Diane Alene	273	(1)
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life	273	(1)
Oral Tradition	273	(3)
Ormes, ``Jackie''	276	(1)
Osbey, Brenda Marie	277	(1)
Owen, Chandler	277	(2)
Park, Robert E.	279	(1)
Parks, Gordon, Sr.	279	(1)
Parks, Suzan-Lori	280	(1)
Parsons, Lucy Gonzalez	280	(1)
Patterson, Lillie	280	(1)
Patterson, Orlando	281	(1)
Patterson, William	281	(1)
Payne, Daniel A.	281	(1)
Payne, Ethel L.	282	(1)
Paynter, John H.	282	(1)
Pennington, James W. C.	282	(1)
Perkins, Eugene	283	(1)
Peterson, Louis	283	(1)
Petry, Ann	283	(2)
Phylon	285	(1)
Pickens, William	285	(1)
Pickett, Wilson	285	(1)
Pietri, Pedro Juan	285	(1)
Plato, Ann	285	(1)
Plumpp, Sterling	285	(1)
Polite, Carlene Hatcher	286	(1)
Porter, James Amos	286	(1)
Porter Wesley, Dorothy Burnett	286	(1)
Poussaint, Alvin Francis	287	(1)
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.	287	(1)
Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr.	287	(1)
Prince, Mary	287	(1)
Prince, Nancy Gardner	288	(1)
Proverbs	288	(3)
Quarles, Benjamin	291	(2)
Rahman, Aishah	293	(1)
Rainey, ``Ma''	293	(1)
Rampersad, Arnold	293	(1)
Randall, Dudley	293	(1)
Randolph, A. Philip	294	(1)
Raspberry, William	295	(1)
Ray, Henrietta Cordelia	295	(1)
Razaf, Andy	295	(1)
Reagon, Bernice Johnson	295	(1)
Reason, Charles L.	296	(1)
Redding, Jay Saunders	296	(1)
Redding, Otis	297	(1)
Redmond, Eugene	297	(1)
Reed, Ishmael	297	(2)
Remond, Sarah Parker	299	(1)
Richardson, Willis	300	(1)
Riggs, Marion Troy	300	(1)
Ringgold, Faith	300	(2)
Rivers, Conard Kent	302	(1)
Robeson, Eslanda Cardozo Goode	302	(1)
Robeson, Paul	303	(2)
Rodgers, Carolyn	305	(1)
Rollins, Charlemae Hill	306	(1)
Roper, Moses	307	(1)
Ross-Barnett, Marguerite	307	(1)
Rowan, Carl T.	307	(3)
Ruggles, David	310	(1)
Rush, Gertrude E. Durden	310	(1)
Russwurm, John Brown	310	(1)
Rustin, Bayard	311	(2)
Salaam, Kalamu ya	313	(1)
Sanchez, Sonia	313	(1)
Scarborough, William Sanders	314	(1)
Schomburg, Arthur A.	315	(3)
Schuyler, George Samuel	318	(1)
Schuyler, Philippa Duke	318	(1)
Shakur, Assata Olugbala	319	(1)
Shakur, Tupac	319	(1)
Shange, Ntozake	319	(3)
Shockley, Ann	322	(1)
Simmons, Herbert Alfred	322	(1)
Simmons, William J.	323	(1)
Sissle, Noble	323	(1)
Slave Narratives	323	(4)
Smith, Amanda Berry	327	(1)
Smith, Anna Deveare	327	(1)
Smith, Barbara	328	(1)
Smith, Effie Waller	328	(1)
Smith, Jessie Carney	328	(1)
Smith, Lillian Eugenia	329	(1)
Smith, Venture	329	(1)
Smith, William Gardner	330	(1)
Southerland, Ellease	330	(1)
Southern, Eileen Stanza Johnson	330	(1)
Spence, Eulalie	330	(1)
Spencer, ``Anne''	330	(2)
Spillers, Hortense J.	332	(1)
Spingarn, Arthur B., and Spingarn, Joel Elias	332	(1)
Spirituals	333	(2)
Spivey, Victoria Regina	335	(1)
Steptoe, John Lewis	335	(1)
Sterling, Dorothy	336	(1)
Steward, Theophilus Gould	336	(1)
Stewart, Maria W.	336	(1)
Still, William	337	(1)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	338	(1)
Sundiata, Sekou	338	(1)
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker	339	(1)
Tarry, Ellen	339	(1)
Tate, Eleanora	339	(1)
Taylor, Mildred D.	339	(1)
Taylor, Susan L.	340	(1)
Taylor, Susie Baker King	340	(1)
Terrell, Mary Eliza Church	340	(1)
Terry, Lucy	341	(1)
Third World Press	341	(1)
Thomas, Joyce Carol	341	(1)
Thomas, Piri	342	(1)
Thompson, Era Bell	342	(1)
Thurman, Howard	343	(1)
Thurman, Wallace	343	(2)
Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman	345	(1)
Tolson, Melvin	345	(2)
Toomer, Jean	347	(3)
Torrence, Jackie	350	(1)
Toure, Askia M.	350	(1)
Trickster Tales	350	(3)
Trotter, Geraldine Pindell	353	(1)
Trotter, James Monroe	353	(1)
Trotter, William Monroe	354	(1)
Troupe, Quincy	355	(1)
Truth, Sojourner	356	(1)
Tubman, Harriet	357	(1)
Turner, Darwin T.	357	(1)
Turner, Lorenzo Dow	358	(1)
Turner, Nat	358	(1)
Turpin, Waters	359	(2)
Van Dyke, Henry	361	(1)
Van Peebles, Melvin	361	(1)
Van Vechten, Carl	361	(2)
Vann, Robert Lee	363	(1)
Vashon, George B.	363	(1)
Vroman, Mary Elizabeth	363	(2)
Walker, A'Lelia	365	(1)
Walker, Alice	365	(2)
Walker, David	367	(1)
Walker, Margaret	368	(2)
Walker, Wyatt Tee	370	(1)
Walrond, Eric	370	(1)
Walter, Mildred Pitts	370	(1)
Waniek, Marilyn Nelson	371	(1)
Ward, Douglas Turner	371	(1)
Ward, Samuel	372	(1)
Ward, Theodore	372	(1)
Washington, Booker T.	372	(2)
Weatherly, Tom	374	(1)
Weaver, Robert C.	374	(1)
Wells, Ida B.	374	(3)
Wesley, Charles Harris	377	(1)
West, Cornel	377	(2)
West, Dorothy	379	(1)
Wheatley, Phillis	380	(1)
Whipper, Frances A. Rollin	381	(1)
Whipper, William	382	(1)
White, Paulette Childress	383	(1)
White, Walter F.	383	(3)
Whitfield, James Monoroe	386	(1)
Whitman, Albery Allson	386	(1)
Widerman, John Edgar	386	(2)
Wilkinson, Brenda	388	(1)
Williams, George Washington	388	(1)
Williams, John A.	388	(1)
Williams, Peter, Jr.	389	(1)
Williams, Robert Franklin	389	(1)
Williams, Samm-Art	390	(1)
Williams, Sherley Anne	390	(1)
Williams, Spencer, Jr.	391	(1)
Wilson, August	391	(4)
Wilson, Harriet E.	395	(2)
Wilson, William Julius	397	(1)
Winfrey, Oprah	398	(2)
Wonder, Stevie	400	(1)
Woodson, Carter G.	401	(1)
Wright, Jay	402	(1)
Wright, Richard	402	(9)
Wright, Sarah E.	411	(2)
X, Malcolm	413	(3)
X, Marvin	416	(1)
Yarbrough, Camille	417	(1)
Yerby, Frank G.	417	(2)
Young, Al	419	(1)
Young, Whitney M., Jr.	419	(2)
Zu-Bolton, Ahmos, III	421	(2)
Appendix: Writers by Genre	423	(10)
Chronology of Writers	433	(4)
Chronology of Firsts	437	(10)
References	447	(6)
Index	453	(32)
About the Authors	485