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MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2023, 3:17 pm Thank you! The first post has been updated.
MaryAnn

Another one in need of an audiobook: Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self (1902) by Pauline Hopkins, the only African-American lost race novel I've heard of.

The Hit is the first novel by author Julian Mayfield, who was also an actor, director, lecturer, and Civil Rights activist. The main character, Hubert Cooley, is an avid gambler who looks for a ‘hit’ to rescue him from his life in Harlem and will do anything to play the game. The novel follows a day in Cooley’s life, which starts out quietly and ends in dramatic confusion and violence.

THIS FIRST NOVEL by a young Negro discloses a fresh and a amazing talent. At twenty-five, his feet dusty from wandering, William Attaway has brought to his publishers a book as poised, as perceptive, as honest and tender as many an older writer with a solid list of books behind him would be proud to claim. This is the story of Step and Ed, young men with no childhood behind them, no security before them; too young as yet to know complete despair, but old in the ways of hard, precarious living. Most of all it is the story of Hi Boy, a little Mexican boy of ten, who brought to Step and Ed a glimpse of unguessed integrities, who gave meaning to their lives.

The Case of Mrs. Wingate is set during WWII and focuses on black Nazi spies and sinister German plots.

On his ranch in the vast wilderness of the great northwest, where be alone was black, dwelt Martin Eden, young Negro man of conquest. The strangest love story ever told.

based on a great insurance swindle, and a woman!

an indictment of post-Civil War history