African Americans

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The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois, also an audiobook

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe, also an audiobook

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington, also an audiobook

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times

George Alfred Townsend

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

W. E. B. Du Bois

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2

George Washington Williams

The Red Record

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, also an audiobook

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol 1

George Washington Williams

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

Sarah H. Bradford

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration, also an audiobook

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

Negro Folk Rhymes

Thomas Washington Talley

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916

Various

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills

John Trotwood Moore

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919

Various

Cane

Jean Toomer, also an audiobook

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar, also an audiobook

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration, also an audiobook

Daisy

Susan Warner

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris, also an audiobook

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly

Jack Thorne

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

Various

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading

James T. Haley

The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

W. E. B. Du Bois, also an audiobook

The Future of the American Negro

Booker T. Washington, also an audiobook

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918

Various

The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

Chicago Commission on Race Relations

A Social History of the American Negro

Benjamin Griffith Brawley, also an audiobook

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

Various

Negro Migration during the War

Emmett J. Scott

Twentieth century Negro literature

D. W. Culp, also an audiobook

The Negro Problem

Booker T. Washington, also an audiobook

A Voice from the South

Anna J. Cooper, also an audiobook

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIII, Oklahoma Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, also an audiobook

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter

Dorothy Porter Wesley

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 8, 1923

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920

Various

John Brown

W. E. B. Du Bois, also an audiobook