Stride Toward Freedom Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. More
1938: Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection… Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection, Uncle Tom’s Children. More
The Known World The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More
Black Boy A powerful and eloquent autobiography that has sold more than a million copies since publication. More
Their Eyes Were Watching God One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More
Geronimo Johnson I write to unread what has been written about me in error and with malice. More Geronimo Johnson