Below is a list of Black and African American authors who’d paved the way for Black authors over the past centuries to this current century. Click on the names of each other in order to review their lasting legacy of literary works.
- James Baldwin
- Langston Hughes
- Toni Morrison
- Zora Neal Hurston
- Octavia E. Butler
- Maya Angelou
- Ralph Ellison
- Richard Wright
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Frederick Douglass
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Ntozake Shange
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Booker T. Washington
- Nella Larson
- Ann Petry
- George Washington Carver