African-American Women Writers

Study Questions

 

Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Cooper, Anna, essays

Crafts, Hannah, The Bondwoman's Narrative

Grimke, Angelina, poems

Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun

Harper, Frances, poems

Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Morrison, Toni, Beloved

Petry, Ann, The Street

Spencer, Anne and Jessie Fauset, poems

Truth, Soujourner, "Ain't I A Woman"

Walker, Alice, Meridian

Wells, Ida B., A Red Record

Wheatley, Phillis, poems

Wilson, Harriet, Our Nig