African American Lit Notes Quiz Worksheet

Olaudah Equiano, the first black in America to write an
W.E.B. DuBois, wrote The Souls of Black
Frederick Douglass, his autobiography was the most influential African American text of his
Langston Hughes, His most famous poem is “The Negro Speaks of
Zora Neal Hurston, Novelist, anthropologist,
Richard Wright, Native
Ralph Ellison, Invisible
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the
Malcolm X, His Autobiography was published after his
Nikki Giovanni, sometimes referred to as the people’s
Toni Morrison, the first African American women to win the Nobel Prize for
Alice Walker, The Color
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird
Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue
Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove
The Black Arts Movement, was anchored in political change and the concept that the artist is a part of his or her
Urban realism, urban sensibility defines much of the 1940s and
The 1970s to the Present, African American literature began to enter the mainstream of
The Harlem Renaissance, The artistic and socio-cultural awakening of African
Slave Narrative, These first writings by blacks in America were