"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson--these three narratives, gathered together here, chronicle the remarkable evolution of African-American consciousness on both a personal and social level.
Author: Booker T. Washington; W. E. B. Du Bois; James Weldon Johnson; John Hope Franklin (ed.) · Original publisher: Avon Books (1965)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1901 (Up from Slavery), 1903 (The Souls of Black Folk) and 1912 (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man); full text of the original works freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `8793-three-negro-classics.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
