Black experience
Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.
Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.
Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.
Hammon, Jupiter. "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York." 24 Sept. 1786, New York, NY, USA.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.
Douglass, Frederick. Speech in New York City. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting. 11 May 1853, New York City, NY, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. "A Nation in the Midst of a Nation (1853)." The Speeches of Frederick Douglass, edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman. Yale University Press, 2018.
Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.
Ellison, Ralph Waldo. Invisible Man. Random House, 1952, prologue.
Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.
Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Performed by Billie Holiday. Commodore Records, 1939.
Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Color. Harper & Brothers, 1925, I. 5.
Cullen, Countee. "Incident." Countee Cullen: Collected Poems, edited by Major Jackson. Library of America, 2013, I. 5.
Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.
Hansberry, Lorraine. "The Nation Needs Your Gifts." Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners meeting. 1 May 1964, New York City, NY, USA.
Davis, Sammy, Jr. Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, pt. 3, ch. 23.
Quoted in The New York Times
Baldwin, James. "The American Dream and the American Negro." The New York Times, 7 Mar. 1965. Originally debate speech "The American Dream and the American Negro." Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro? Debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley. Cambridge Union. 17 Feb. 1965, Cambridge, England, UK.
Hurston, Zora Neale. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." World Tomorrow, May 1928.