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In 1989 Charles L. Blockson, a pioneering scholar and collector in the field of African-Americana, compiled an annotated checklist: A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent (1556-1982): A Collector's Choice. In a field notably devoid of "highspot checklists" which abound for other types of literature, it is an excellent starting point for reference and reflection on this subject.

1982
The Color Purple
1976
Roots
1974
The African Origin of Civilization
1974
The Destruction of Black Civilization
1968-02-29
Soul on Ice
1966
Jubilee
1965
Manchild in the Promised Land
1965
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1963
The Fire Next Time
1963
The Wretched of the Earth
1963
I Have a Dream
1962
Before the Mayflower
1959-07-14
A Raisin in the Sun
1958
Things Fall Apart
1958
Here I Stand
1954
Segregation in Public Schools
1952
Invisible Man
1948-02-01
Cry, the Beloved Country
1947
Presence Africaine
1947
From Slavery to Freedom
1946
The Foxes of Harrow
1945
Ebony
1945
A Street in Bronzeville
1944
An American Dilemma
1944
Capitalism and Slavery
1941
The Negro Caravan
1940
Native Son
1938
The Black Jacobins
1936
The Scottsboro Case
1936-06-30
Gone with the Wind
1935
Black Reconstruction
1934
Negro Anthology
1932
Southern Road
1929
The Green Pastures
1928
John Brown's Body
1926
The Weary Blues
1926
Nigger Heaven
1925
The New Negro
1923
Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey
1923
Cane
1922
Batouala
1922
Harlem Shadows
1917
From Superman to Man
1916
Washington D.C.
1913-1929
Anthology of magazine verse for 1913
1912
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man
1910
New York, NAACP
1905
The Clansman
1903-04-18
The Souls of Black Folk
1901
Up from Slavery
1900
The Story of LIttle Black Sambo
1899
The Philadelphia Negro
1899
The Conjure Woman
1896
The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade
1896
Lyrics of a Lowly Life
1895
Cotton States Exposition Address
1884-12-10
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1883
History of the Negro Race in America
1881
Uncle Remus
1881
Eugene Onegin
1872
The Underground Railroad
1869
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
1865
The Liberator
1864-1865
The Thirteenth Amendment
1864
Miscegenation
1863
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
1863
Toussaint L'Ouverture
1863
Anthropological Treatises
1862
Emancipation Proclamation
1861
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
1857
The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court
1853
Clotel
1852
Corinthian Hall Oration
1852-03-20
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1851
The Fugitive Slave Act
1850
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
1844
The Three Musketeers
1845
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
1845
Les Cenelles
1841
Argument for the Amistad Captives
1831
The Confessions of Nat Turner
1829-09-28
Walker's Appeal
1822
The Trials of Sundry Negroes
1810
An Enquiry concerning the intellectual and moral faculties, and literature of negroes
1808
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade
1799
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
1797
De la partie francaise de l'Isle Saint-Domingue
1791
Banneker's Almanacs
1789
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
1787
Notes on the State of Virginia
1787
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York by Jupiter Hammon
1782
Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho
1775
Proclamation of John Murray
1773
Poems on Various Subjects
1772
An argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro
1770
A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston
1766
A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies
1754
Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes
1742
Staatkundig-godgeleerd onderzoekschrift over de slaverny
1583
Ad catholicum...
1550
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