James Baldwin 1924-1987 Toni Cade Bambara 1939-1995 Arna BoArna Bontemps 1902-1973 Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000 Charles Chesnutt 1858-1932 Eric Jerome Dickey 1961- W.E.B. DuBois (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 Ralph Ellison 1914-1994 E. Lynn Harris 1955-2009 Chester Himes 1909-1984 Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Richard Charles Johnson 1948- John Oliver Killens 1916-1987 Nella Larsen 1893-1963 Julius Lester 1939- | 
