African American literature: Media

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title page of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography
Title page from the first edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of...
Elizabeth Keckley
A portrait of Elizabeth Keckley from the frontispiece to her autobiography, Behind...
"Behind the Scenes," by Elizbeth Keckley
Poems of Cabin and Field
The embossed cover of Dodd, Mead and Company's 1899 illustrated edition of Paul Laurence...
Between the Covers Rare Books, Merchantville, NJ
God's Trombones cover
Dust jacket by the African American artist Aaron Douglas for James Weldon Johnson's...
Between the Covers Rare Books, Merchantville, NJ
A Long Way from Home
Dust jacket by the African American artist Aaron Douglas for Claude McKay's autobiography,...
Between the Covers Rare Books, Merchantville, NJ
The Weary Blues cover
Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for...
James S. Jaffe Rare Books, Haverford, PA
Nobody Knows My Name
Dust jacket for the 1961 Dial Press first edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows...
Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. Between the Covers Rare Books, Merchantville, NJ
scene from A Raisin in the Sun
(From left) Stephen Perry, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, and Sidney Poitier...
Copyright © 1969 Columbia Pictures Corporation; all rights reserved.