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1958: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. selects Harper & Brothers to publish his memoir…

A leader of his people tells The Montgomery Story. Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Cover)

After leading the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and becoming the voice of the civil rights movement, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. selects Harper & Brothers to publish Stride Toward Freedom, his memoir about the Montgomery bus boycott. More

1937: Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God is published…

J. B. Lippincott publishes Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. More

Black Boy

A powerful and eloquent autobiography that has sold more than a million copies since publication. More

1949: Harper & Brothers publishes the Pulitzer-Prize winning Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks…

Annie Allen (Cover) Powems by Gwendolyn Brooks Author of a Street in Bronzeville.

Harper & Brothers publishes Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks, which wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and makes Brooks the first African American writer to receive the award. 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

Stride Toward Freedom

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. More

The Crying of Lot 49

This highly original satire is a classic of postmodern literature. More

The Book of Negroes

A milestone in Canada’s understanding of black history and one of the bestselling books in Canadian publishing history. More

Amistad

HarperCollins’s Amistad Press is the oldest imprint devoted to titles for the African American market at any major New York publishing house. More

Social Change: African American Identity in the U.S.

HarperCollins has published a number of books that explore the racial identity of African Americans during periods of great social conflict. 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

1938: Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection…

Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection, Uncle Tom’s Children. More

Original proposal for Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill’s agent, Janet Turnbull Irving, submitted this one-page summary for his as yet unwritten novel Migration to HarperCollins Canada Editor-in-Chief Iris Tupholme in 1998. More

Sounder

Newbery Award–winning book that became an influential children’s work on race and class. More

Native Son

Wright’s unsparing reflection on what it means to be black in America. More

Monster

Winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. More

Lawrence Hill

Writing is the one pursuit I have always pursued, and always known I was compelled to pursue. More

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