The Wiley Blackwell Anthology Of African American Literature The Literatures Of Modernism Modernity And Civil Rights C1940 1965 Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 2000 Robert Hayden 1913 1980 Chester Himes 1909 1984 Ann Petry 1908 1997 James Baldwin 1924 1987 Ralph Ellison 1914 1994 Lorraine Hansberry 1930 1965

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