Literary Arts | Mitchell Collection of African American History

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Phillis Wheatley – First Published African American

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Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Handwritten Poem “Ocean”

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William Wells Brown – First Novel by an African American

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Paul Laurence Dunbar – Snapshot of the Newlywed Author

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Paul Laurence Dunbar – A Fair Copy of His Most Famous Poem “Life”

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Countee Cullen – A Fair Copy of His Celebrated Poem “Yet Do I Marvel”

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Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem Renaissance Period Writer Whose Ethnographic Work Surprises Us Still

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Langston Hughes – Poet Laureate of the Negro Race

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James Baldwin – Original Script for Play, The Amen Corner

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James Baldwin – Original Script for Play, The Amen Corner

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Amiri Baraka – Script for the Activist’s Award-Winning Play, Dutchman

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Amiri Baraka – Script for the Activist’s Award-Winning Play, Dutchman

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Alice Walker – Signed First Edition of The Color Purple

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Alice Walker – Signed First Edition of The Color Purple

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