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  1. Front Matter
  2. Captivity, Enslavement, Resistance
    1. Olaudah Equiano
    2. Mary Prince
    3. Phillis Wheatley
    4. Jupiter Hammon
    5. Jarena Lee
    6. George Moses Horton
    7. Nat Turner
    8. Frederick Douglass
    9. Sojourner Truth
    10. Solomon Northup
    11. Harriet Jacobs
    12. Harriet E. Wilson
    13. Elizabeth Keckley
    14. Ellen Craft, William Craft
    15. William Wells Brown
    16. Slave Voyages During the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  3. Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance
    1. Charlotte Forten Grimké
    2. Booker T. Washington
    3. W.E.B. Du Bois
    4. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
    5. Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    6. Paul Laurence Dunbar
    7. Alice Dunbar Nelson
    8. James Weldon Johnson
    9. Angelina Weld Grimké
    10. The Reconstruction Era Through Documentary Film
  4. The Harlem Renaissance
    1. Marcus Garvey
    2. Alain Locke
    3. Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
    4. Claude McKay
    5. Countee Cullen
    6. Nella Larsen
    7. Wallace Thurman
    8. Jean Toomer
    9. George Schuyler
    10. Zora Neale Hurston
    11. Langston Hughes
    12. Key Topics Podcast
  5. Urban Realism
    1. Richard Wright
    2. Ann Petry
    3. Ralph Ellison
    4. Robert Hayden
    5. Margaret Walker
    6. Gwendolyn Brooks
    7. James Baldwin
    8. Lorraine Hansberry
    9. Key Topics Podcast
  6. The Black Arts Movement
    1. Martin Luther King Jr.
    2. Malcolm X
    3. Amiri Baraka
    4. Etheridge Knight
    5. Sonia Sanchez
    6. Audre Lorde
    7. June Jordan
    8. Ishmael Reed
    9. Ntozake Shange
    10. Nikki Giovanni
    11. Key Topics Podcast
  7. Late Twentieth Century to the Present
    1. August Wilson
    2. Maya Angelou
    3. Toni Morrison
    4. James Alan McPherson
    5. Colson Whitehead
    6. Ta-Nehisi Coates
    7. Roxane Gay
    8. Mateo Askaripour
    9. Zakiya Dalila Harris
    10. Ariel Felton
    11. Monica West
    12. Camille Acker
    13. Rita Dove
    14. Gregory Pardlo
    15. Tracy K. Smith
    16. Natasha Trethewey
    17. Amanda Gorman
    18. Octavia Butler
    19. Nalo Hopkinson
    20. Tananarive Due
    21. Analyzing Poetry Through Documentary Film

NIKKI GIOVANNI 

Date of Birth: June 7, 1943

Place of Birth: Knoxville, TN

Major Works: Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment; The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni:

1968-1998; My House; Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement My First Twenty-Five Years of Being Black

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Kwame Alexander

Citation: Giovanni, Nikki. “Kwame Alexander.” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 91, no. 4, July 2015,

pp. 78–79.

GALILEO

Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

Resignation

Resignation

Quilts

Quilts

Mothers

Mothers

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

The Laws of Motion

The Laws of Motion

Nikki-Rosa

Nikki-Rosa

Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)

Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)

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