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• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  #1

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  Hurston, Zora Neale

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  #2

• Beloved

  Morrison, Toni

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  #3

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  Angelou, Maya,

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  #5

• Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

  Cooper, J. California

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  #6

• Invisible Man

  Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994

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  #8

• Song of Solomon

  Morrison, Toni

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  #9

• Native Son

  Wright, Richard, 1908-1960,

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  #10

• A Raisin in the Sun

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965

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  #12

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  #15

• A Lesson Before Dying

  Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-

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  #16

• Waiting to Exhale

  McMillan, Terry

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  #21

• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  a Choreopoem

  Shange, Ntozake

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  #22

• A Little Yellow Dog

  Mosley, Walter,

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  #23

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  X, Malcolm, 1925-1965

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  #24

• Possessing the Secret of Joy

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  #26

• Mama Day

  Naylor, Gloria

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  #29

• The Wedding (abridged)

  West, Dorothy

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  #30