From A death in the Family / James Agee
From Skin: talking about sex, class & literature / Dorothy Allison
From I knew why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
From On fire / Larry Brown
From Brother to a dragonfly / Will D. Campbell
From A childhood: the biography of a place / Harry Crews
From Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass
"The first grade, Jesus, and the Hollyberry family" / Kaye Gibbons
From Witness to sorrow: the antebellus autobiography of William J. Grayson / William J. Grayson
From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston
From Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs
From A slaveholder's daughter / Belle Kearney
From Confessions of a failed Southern lady / Florence King
From The making of a Southerner / Katharine Du Pre Lumkin
From The South and the Southerner / Ralph McGill
From Keeper of the moon: a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin
From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
From North toward home / Willie Morris
From Proud shoes: The story of an American family / Pauli Murray
From Lanterns on the levee: recollections of a planter's son / William Alexander Percy
From Clear pictures: first loves, first guides / Reynolds Price
From Background in Tennessee / Evelyn Scott
From Killers of the dream / Lillian Smith
From One upon a time when we were Colored / Clifton Taulbert
From Destruction and reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war / Richard Taylor
"The private history of a campaign that failed" / Mark Twain
From Portrait of a father / Robert Penn Warren
From Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
From "Co. Aytch": a side show of the big show / Sam R. Watkins
From One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty
From Black boy (American hunger) / Richard Wright.
