February 24: African-American Classics

In an outstanding graphic novel format, African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America's earliest black writers.

African-American Classics features "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy.

Also featured are 11 poems, including Langston Hughes' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro", plus Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy" ("I know why the caged bird sings...")

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