African American Literature: 1866-1919

• Elizabeth Keckley
• Behind the Scenes By Elizabeth Keckley, Formerly a Slave, But More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868)
• Frances Anne Rollin
• The Life and Services of Martin R. Delany (1868)
• William Still
• The Underground Railroad (1871)
• Julia A. J. Foote
• A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (1879)
• Jacob Stroyer
• My Life in the South (1879)
• H. Cordelia Ray
• Sketch of the Life of Rev. Charles B. Ray (1887)
• George Washington Williams
• A History of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion (1887)
• The History of the Negro Race in America 1619–1880 (1883)
• Bethany Veney
• Aunt Betty’s Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)
• Octavia V. Rogers Albert
• The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1890)
• Josephine D. Heard
• Morning Glories (1890)
• A.E. Johnson
• Clarence and Corrine; or, God's Way (1890)
• The Hazeley Family (1894)
• Martina Meriden; or What Is My Motive? (1901)
• N.F. Mossell – (Gerturde Bustill Mossell)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (1890)
• Edward A. Johnson
• A School History of the Negro Race in America (textbook) (1890)
• Lucy A. Delaney
• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891)
• Anna J. Cooper
• A Voice from the South (1892)
• Frances Harper
• Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Oak and Ivy (1892)
• Poems of Cabin in Field (1899)
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
• The Sport of the Gods (1902)
• Amanda Smith
• An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (1893)
• Eloise Bibb
• Poems (1895)
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Violets and Other Tales (1895)
• Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (1914)
• Ida B. Wells
• A Red Record (1895)
• Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.
• A Rhyming (1895)
• Links of Friendship (1898)
• Caleb, the Degenerate; A Play in Four Acts: A Study of the Types, Customs, and Needs of the American Negro (1903)
• Negro Tales (1912)
• Mary Weston Fordham
• Magnolia Leaves (1897)
• Timothy Thomas Fortune
• The Kind of Education the Afro-American Most Needs (1898)
• Dreams of Life: Miscellaneous Poems (1905)
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Study of the Negro Problems (1898)
• The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
• Booker T. Washington
• Future of American Negro (1899)
• Up From Slavery (1901)
• Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Conjure Woman (1899)
• The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
• The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
• Sutton E. Griggs
• Imperium in Imperio (1899)
• Overshadowed (1901)
• Unfettered (1902)
• The Hindered Hand (1905)
• Clara Ann Thompson
• Songs from the Wayside (1900)
• James D. Corrothers
• The Snapping of the Bow (1901) 
• The Black Cat Club (1902)
• William Hannibal Thomas
• The American Negro (1901)
• Pauline Hopkins
• Contending Forces: A Romance Illstruative of Negro Life North and South (1900)
• Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice (1901)
• Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (1902)
• Of One Blood, or, the Hidden Self (1903)
• Susie King Taylor
• Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902)
• William Braithwaite
• Lyrics of Life and Love (1904)
• The House of Falling Leaves (1908)
• Effie Waller Smith
• Songs of the Months (1904)
• Rhymes from the Cumberland (1909)
• Virginia E. Walker Broughton
• Women's Work, as Gleaned from the Women of the Bible (1904)
• Twenty Years' Experience of a Missionary (1907)
• Priscilla Jane Thompson
• Gleanings of Quiet Hours (1907)
• Annie Burton
• Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909)
• Maggie Pogue Johnson
• Virginia Dreams: Lyrics for the Idle Hour (1910)
• J. Vance Lewis
• Out of the Ditch. A True Story of an Ex-Slave (1910)
• William Pickens
• The Heir of Slaves (1911)
• Bursting Bonds (1923)
• Matthew Henson
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912)
• William H. Ferris
• The African Abroad; or his Evolution in Western Civilization: Tracing his development under Caucasian Milieus (1913)
• Hubert Harrison
• A Hubert Harrison Reader 
• Fenton Johnson
• A Little Dreaming (1913)
• Visions of the Dusk (1915)
• Songs of the Soil (1916) 
• Tales of Darkest America (1920)
• Oscar Micheaux
• The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (1913)
• The Forged Note (1915)
• The Homesteader (1917)
• Olivia Ward Bush
• Driftwood (1914)
• Benjamin Griffith Brawley
• History of Morehouse College (1917)
• The Negro Literature and Art (1918)