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Masterpieces of African-American literature / edited by Frank N. Magill.

Encyclopedia of African-American writing / editors, Laura Nicosia, Ph.D, James F. Nicosia, Ph.D.

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Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945 / Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.

Roses, Lorraine Elena, 1943-

African-American writers / Philip Bader.

Bader, Philip, 1969-

The world of Toni Morrison : a guide to characters and places in her novels / Gloria Grant Roberson.

Roberson, Gloria G.

Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.

Murphy, Barbara Thrash.

African American poets : lives, works, and sources / Joyce Pettis.

Pettis, Joyce Owens.

African-American writers : a dictionary / Shari Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland, editors ; foreword by Dorothy Strickland.