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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
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Gather Together in My Name
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
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The Big Sea
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Black Boy
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James Baldwin: Artist on Fire: A Portrait
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Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle For Identity
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Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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Toni Morrison
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Life on the Mississippi
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The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Series Number 1)
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