Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road, is an autobiography published in 1942. In this work, Hurston offers her views on the role of black artists.

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is Hurston's best-known work. In this book, Hurston's main characters are white, rather than the black inhabitants of her previous work.

Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) is a collection of Langston Hughes's poetry. The central subject is Harlem's lower class. Hughes also includes several ballads.

The Ways of White Folks (1934) is a collection of short stories that Hughes wrote after he noted similarities between his writing and that of D. H. Lawrence.

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is an autobiography that tells of the author's life as a slave in North Carolina and of her escape and struggle for freedom.

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