!IN SUMMER TERM 2021/22, COURSE CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS!

1) Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-84), Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883), Harriet Jacobs (c.1813-97), and Frederick Douglass (1818-95)

2) Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915), W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), and Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

3) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), and James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

4) Alain Locke (1885-1954), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882?-1961), Angela Weld Grimké (1880-1958), Arna Bontemps (1902-72), Jean Toomer (1894-1967), and Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956)

5) Langston Hughes (1902-67), Claude McKay (1889-1948), and Countee Cullen (1903-46)

6) Nella Larsen (1891-1963) and Zora Neale Hurston (1891[1901?]-1960)

7) Richard Wright (1908-60) and James Baldwin (1924-87)

8) Ralph Ellison (1914-94)

9) Toni Morrison (b. 1931) and Alice Walker (b. 1944)

10) Martin Luther King (1929-68), Malcolm X (1925-65), and Stokely Carmichael (1941-98)

11) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950) and Cornel West (b. 1953)

12) Paule Marshall (b. 1929), Toni Cade Bambara (1939-95), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Audre Lorde (1934-92), Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones, b. 1934), Michael S. Harper (b. 1938), and Rita Dove (b. 1952)