Pamela M. Fowler
Chapman, Abraham,
Black Voices
, Mentor, New York, 1971.
Black Voices
is an anthology from which I took the following short stories.
Nigger
,
The Day I Learned Shame
,
My struggle
, by Frederick Douglass.
My Education,
by Frederick Douglass.
Betsy
, by Richard Wright
Homeboy,
by Malcolm X.
Douglass Frederick,
Narrative
, Signet Classic, New York, 1968.
An autobiography of Frederick Douglas’ life growing up black. Easy reading and keeps the interest.
Joseph, Stephen M.,
The Me Nobody Knows-children’s voices from the ghetto
, Avon Books, New York, 1969.
A series of students writing from a public school in New York published by their teacher.
King Jr., Martin Luther, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
Rivera, Edward,
Family Installments
, Penguin, New York, 1982.
An autobiography of a Hispanic American growing up in America.
Wideman, John Edgar,
Brothers and keepers,
Penguin, New York, 1984.
Written by a black man about his life and the opposing life of his fallen brother.