African-American History on Shmoop
- Jim Crow in America
- Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation
- Civil Rights Movement: The “Black Power” Era
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 80th Birthday
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African-American Literature on Shmoop
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- King of the Bingo Game, by Ralph Ellison
- Native Son, by Richard Wright
- A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
- Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
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African-American Poetry on Shmoop
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes
- Harlem (Dream Deferred), by Langston Hughes
- We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn Brooks
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