Award Winning African American Literature for the Classroom

Discover award-winning African American literature for the classroom! Explore our curated list of acclaimed books that celebrate diversity, inspire learning, and enrich student engagement.

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Middle Passage

by Charles Johnson

A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Sethe. Proud and beautiful, she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges …
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Churchboys & Other Sinners

by Preston L. Allen

Preston Allen's stories explore the boundary between boy and man, church and smut shack in spare, deadpan prose.
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Quicksand and Passing

by Nella Larsen

Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane's search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene's friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white.
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I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ". . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not …
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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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Roots

by Alex Haley

It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose …
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