Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt. “Of the Meaning of Progress.” In
Souls
of
Black
Folk
, 55-64. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1961. A moving portrait of a dispossessed people in search of themselves and struggling for their human rights.
Henderson, George Wylie.
Jule
. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:. The University of Alabama Press, 1946. This story recounts a young man’s journey from the simple folklife of Alabama to Harlem where he samples the sophisticated life only to realize that his former life was best.
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Ollie
Miss
. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1935. The moving story of a young woman’s struggle for identity, independence and to find some measure of happiness in life.
Hughes, Langston.
Tambourines
To
Glory
. New York: Hill and Wang 1958. Two Harlem women start a church which proves extremely profitable for them. Conflict and a murder nearly prove to be the undoing of their enterprise.
Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Gilded Six-Bits.” In
The
Best
Short
Stories
by
Negro
Writers
, edited by Langston Hughes, 74-85. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.
The trials of-a young couple living in rural Florida.
Toomer, Jean.
Cane
. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1975 A mixture of poetry and poetic prose.
Wright, Richard.
Black
Boy.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1945. Autobiographical account of Richard Wright’s life growing up in the South as a “black boy.”
X, Malcolm.
The
Autobiography
of
Malcolm
X
. New York: Grove Press, 1965. Malcolm’s own story of his life.