1900s classics for Black History Month available for free on the Serial Reader app:
Booker T. Washington and/versus W. E. B. Du Bois
An Arctic memoir that looks cool~
Countee Cullen was considered second only to Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance poetry scene
Cane and Home to Harlem are two Harlem Renaissance classics
Alain Locke, father of the Harlem Renaissance, edited the anthology that cemented nationwide the idea that Black Americans did not need to assimilate into white culture or play into respectability politics to get ahead—instead they were creating their own culture, making a new canon of poetry, novels, dramas, music, and essays, all of which Locke collected in his anthology
Pre-1900s classics post is here
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