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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry, which was published in 1773. Her collection, was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
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Novelist Toni Morrison makes references to African American spirituality in her literature, and in her 1977 novel ‘‘Song of Solomon’’ published in 1977, tells the story of the character Milkman, an African American in search of his African ancestors. Milkman lived in the North but returned to the South in search of his ancestry.
Just Us Books, a publishing house focused on African American children and young adult books, is founded by Wade and Cheryl Hudson. 1991. Tom Low and Philip Lee co-found Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. 1992. The African American Children's Book Fair started in Philadelphia by Vanesse Lloyd ...
Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist Kathy Y. Wilson (died 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears , The Truly Disadvantaged , and The Declining Significance of Race
African-American characters in literature (26 P) Pages in category "African-Americans in literature" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, post-American Civil War African immigrants and descendants of "free people of color" do not self-identify as African American (though some people of Caribbean, Central American, and South American nations self-identify as African-American).
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.