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Classic Civil Rights Narratives

Classic Civil Rights Narratives

Ranging from memoirs written by those bound by slavery to those who fought to end racial segregation, these works are among the most important and famous documents in the history of Black history and the Civil Rights movement.

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Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave (Frederick Douglass)

The Narrative Of The Live Of Frederick Douglass An: American Slave (Frederick Douglass)

My Bondage and My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth)

The Colored Cadet at West Point; Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy (Henry Ossian Flipper)

The Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (William Craft)

The Souls of Black Folk (W. E. B. Du Bois)

Up from Slavery: an Autobiography (Booker T. Washington)

THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY (James Weldon Johnson)

THE ANTI-SLAVERY HARP (William Wells Brown)

The Future of the Negro (1899) (Booker T. Washington)

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King (Martin Luther King)

King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963 (Martin Luther King)