• The Color Line by Frederick Douglas
• The Christian Slave by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Education of Freedmen, part 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Education of Freedmen, part 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Effects of Negro Suffrage by H.H. Chalmers
• Franklin County: The Diary of Rachel Cormany
• The Free Colored People of North Carolina by Charles W. Chesnutt
• Friction Between the Races: Causes and Cure by Sutton E. Griggs
• From Darkness Cometh the Light by Lucy A. Delany
• The Future of the Colored Race by Frederick Douglas
• The Heart of the Race Problem by Q uincy Ewing
• Heroes in Black Skins by Booker T. Washington
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
• The House of Bondage by Octavia V. Rogers Albert
• An Indignation Dinner by James D. Co rrothers
• Lady Freedom Among Us by Rita Dove
• Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
• Magnolia Leaves: Poems by Mary Weston Fordham
• A Master Sold by a Slave by John Stuart Bonner
• Memories of Childhood's Slave Days by Annie L. Burton
• My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglas
• My Escape from Slavery by Frederick Douglas
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
• The Narrative of the Negro by Leila Amos Pendleton
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
• The Negro Exodus from the Gulf States by Frederick Douglas
• The Negro Genius by Benjamin Brawley
• The Negro Schoolmaster in the New South by W.E.B. DuBois
• The Negro Singer by James D. Corrothers
• Negro Spirituals by Thomas W. Higginson
• Negro Suffrage in a Democracy by Ray Stannard Baker
• The Negro's Place in History by Willis Boughton
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave by Henry Bibb
• On the Pulse of the Morning by Maya Angelou
• Pay of Colored Troops by Thomas W. Higginson
• Poems on Various Subjects by Phillis Wheatley
• Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas
• Religious Experience by Jalena Lee
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen and William Craft
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
• Strivings of the Negro People by W.E.B. DuBois
• The Travesty of White Injustice by Marcus Garvey
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by George Aiken
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• Virginia Dreams by Maggie Pogue Johnson
• What a Southern Negro Is Doing for Himself by Samuel J. Barrows
• The Work of Afro-American Women by N.F. Mossell