Category - History

Frederick Douglass: A Biography (1899) is a book by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. While he is more wide...

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own...

Nancy Prince is an African American woman who writes about her personal and professional life, including her marriage and travels abroad to Russia ...

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912) is a memoir by Matthew Henson. Published a few years following an expedition to the planet's northernmost...

Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Although less popular than his book God's Trombones: Seven Neg...

Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells. Published several months after a white mob destroyed the office of her prominent Memphis new...

The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) is an anthology by James Weldon Johnson. Alongside some of his own poems, Johnson includes the work of suc...

Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately l...

A compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economi...

Ida B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majori...

Initially published in 1920, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is a combination of essays that tackle the power dynamics of gender, race and r...

"We've railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in Fredrick Dougla...

A compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economi...

"This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arran...

A thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inhe...

"History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others, neve...

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Fred...