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Course Readings

Literature of Slavery and Reconstruction

Sojourner Truth - Ain't I a Woman

Frederick Douglas - Meaning of the 4th of July

Paul Lawrence Dunbar - We Wear the Mask

Booker T. Washington - Atlanta Compromise

W.E.B. DuBois - Speech in Response to Booker T. Washington

The Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Era

Langston Hughes - Thank you Ma'am

Langston Hughes - Theme for English B

Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Zora Neale Hurston - How it Feels to be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston - Sweat

Gwendolyn Brooks - Kitchenette Building

Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I have a Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I've been to the Mountaintop

Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet

Malcolm X - Learning to Read

Modernism and the Black Arts Era

Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun (Request Link)

August Wilson - Fences (Request Link)

Amiri Baraka - Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 

Amiri Baraka - A Poem for Black Hearts

Ralph Ellison - Battle Royal

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (Request Link)

Contemporary Black America

Etheridge Knight - The Idea of Ancestry

Saul Williams - Coded Language 

Tupac Shakur - Changes

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised

Queen Latifah - The Evil that Men Do

Barack Obama - A More Perfect Union

John Lewis - March, Volume 1

John Lewis - March, Volume 2

John Lewis - March, Volume 3

John Lewis - Run, Volume 1

Maya Angelou - Still I Rise

Maya Angelou - On the Pulse of Morning

Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb

Research and Resources

Below, you can access the Lima Campus Library Catalog, and the OhioLINK catalog to find titles available on library shelves. At the Lima Campus Library alone, you have 75,000 titles available to you. Through OhioLINK, you have 50 million! OhioLINK is a partnership of 90 Ohio college and university libraries, including the state library of Ohio, that work together to provide Ohio students, faculty, and researchers access to the information they need for their research, for free.

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Listed below are databases that can lead you to articles from scholarly journals in the English field and in other related fields. If you want a refresher on using databases, please get in touch with us at the library.

If you are OFF CAMPUS be sure to use the off campus database link.

For a complete list of all of the OhioLINK databases, please click here.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and these resources are provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.

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