... with slavery, religion and industrialization in 1880. Another well known African American author and intellectual W.E.B. Dubois first book published was called the Philadelphia Negro in 1896 and began a whole new outlook for African Americans, slavery and the Civil War. Dubois 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk tried to give America the answer to the problem as well as highlight the problem itself, the color line. I believe that The Souls of ... ), Toni Morrison, an African American novelist (winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 and Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved), A...

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... of African American life and speech in her writing. Hurston's black heritage and her family's experiences let her connect on a deeper level when other authors could not. Hurston's early life consisted of religion since both of the male figures in her family were preachers in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first official all-black towns to remain in the United States to this day. ... She was then introduced to the world of literature in 1901 at the age of 10, when Northern school teachers allowed her to read ... Jones, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara. Alice Walker cl...

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