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George S. Schuyler: Black No More (LOA eBook Classic)

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Langston Hughes: Not Without Laughter (LOA eBook Classic)

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William Wells Brown: Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter (LOA eBook Classic)

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Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems LOA N°304

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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality LOA N°303

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Wallace Thurman: The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (LOA eBook Classic)

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Nella Larsen: Quicksand (LOA eBook Classic)

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (LOA eBook Classic)

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Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs LOA N°284

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James Baldwin: Complete Fiction & Collected Essays (three volumes)

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James Baldwin: Later Novels LOA N°272

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Paperback Classic)

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Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville (LOA eBook Classic)

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William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings LOA N°247

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Reporting Civil Rights (boxed set)

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Countee Cullen: Collected Poems

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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation LOA N°233

32.00 i

James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Paperback Classic)

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Arna Bontemps, Rudolph Fisher, George S. Schuyler, Langston Hughes: Harlem Renaissance Novels: Four Novels of the 1930s LOA N°218

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Harlem Renaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1920s LOA N°217

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Harlem Renaissance Novels (boxed set)

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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback Classic)

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

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James Weldon Johnson: Writings LOA N°145

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Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973 LOA N°138

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Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963 LOA N°137

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Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays LOA N°131

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Slave Narratives LOA N°114

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James Baldwin: Collected Essays LOA N°98

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James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories LOA N°97

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