Black Voices

<b>If you don't know my name you don't know your own.--James Baldwin <p/>An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American authors of our time including James Baldwin Arna Bontemps Gwendolyn Brooks W. E. B. Du Bois Ralph Ellison Langston Hughes Leroi Jones Margaret Walker Richard Wright Malcom X and many more.</b> <p/> Featuring fiction poetry autobiography and literary criticism <i>Black Voices</i> captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today's African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. <p/> <b>Contributors Also Include: </b><br> <b>Sterling A. Brown<br> Charles W. Chesnutt<br> John Henrik Clarke<br> Countee Cullen<br> Frederick Douglass<br> Paul Laurence Dunbar<br> James Weldon Johnson<br> Naomi Long Madgett<br> Paule Marshall<br> Clarence Major<br> Claude McKay<br> Ann Petry<br> Dudley Randall<br> J. Saunders Redding<br> Jean Toomer<br> Darwin T. Turner</b><br> <b>Lerone Bennett Jr.</b><br> <b>Frank London Brown</b><br> <b>Arthur P. Davis</b><br> <b>Frank Marshall Davis</b><br> <b>Owen Dodson</b><br> <b>Mari Evans</b><br> <b>Rudolph Fisher</b><br> <b>Dan Georgakas</b><br> <b>Robert Hayden</b><br> <b>Frank Horne</b><br> <b>Blyden Jackson</b><br> <b>Lance Jeffers</b><br> <b>Fenton Johnson</b><br> <b>George E. Kent</b><br> <b>Alain Locke</b><br> <b>Diane Oliver</b><br> <b>Stanley Sanders</b><br> <b>Richard G. Stern</b><br> <b>Sterling Stuckey</b><br> <b>Melvin B. Tolson</b>