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The sixth in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, beginning in 1964 when she returned to the U.S. from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discussing her reaction to his assassination, her firsthand view of the Watts riots, her subsequent work with Martin Luther King Jr., and the impact of his death on her life and career.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that introduce the major writers and great works of the Harlem Renaissance, a period characterized by a flowering of African-American literature and other artistic endeavors.

A biography of the multi-faceted African-American woman, Maya Angelou, tracing her life from her childhood in the segrated South to her prominence as a well-known writer.

Presents a guide to reading and understanding Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, " featuring a character list, summary, analysis, study questions and answers, and suggested essay topics for each chapter, and including information on the life of the author.

Collection of twenty-eight critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narrators to contemporary feminist authors.

A collection of essays in which thirty American authors reveal racial hopes, fears, fury, and triumphs of white and African-American writers alike.

Contains fifty-two alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about significant African-American authors, each with a biographical overview, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; and includes three additional topical essays, and an index.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century journalist, essayist, novelist, and playwright, Zora Neale Hurston and traces her literary career from a collection of photographs, poetry, articles, and handwritten notes, as well as a CD of her interviews and songs all strategically placed within the text of the book.

A study of the life and art of the novelist who published more books during her lifetime than any other African-American woman.

African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America''s earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy.