The colonial and antebellum periods. Lucy Terry Prince
The reconstruction period. Elizabeth Keckley
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
Expansion, experimentation, and excellence: 20th- and 21st-century African American women's writings. The Harlem renaissance. Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The 1940s-1959. Dorothy West
Literature of the Black aesthetic movement: the 1960s and 1970s. Alice Childress
Literature of the second renaissance: the 1970s and 1980s. Toni Morrison
Literature from the new millennium: the 1990s to the 21st century. Tina McElroy Ansa
Black feminist criticism and womanist theories. Barbara Christian
