Classicly Collection of Books

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus

Rufus Estes

"Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef" includes nearly 600 mouth-watering recipes: chicken gumbo, chestnut stuffing with truffles, cherry dumplings, southern..

Historical Lectures and Essays

Charles Kingsley

Historical Lectures and Essays is a collected work of essays by Charles Kingsley contains the essays including below The First Discovery Of AmericaCyrus, The Servant Of-The LordAncient Civil..

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man," living in post-Reconstruction era..

The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson

The Book of American Negro Poetry is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson on African-American studies. Preface of the book by author follows:A people may become great through many means,..

The Colored Cadet at West Point

Henry Flipper

Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant for any individual in any time, and for a nineteenth-century black American it was phenomenal. As historian Quintard Taylor points out, in his post-A..

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar. African-american poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1872-1906). Introductory note by the auth..

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in 1899, The Conjure Woman was Chesnutt's first great..

The Emperor Jones

Eugene O'Neill

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another b..