The Two Foot Shelf of Negro Literature

“Composed of books [sic], selected with care and discrimination, with the idea of offsetting the silence of our educational system regarding twelve million American citizens. Add these volumes to your library. Reading them will increase your respect for the Negro race.” —Kathryn M. Johnson

• The Negro in Our History — Carter G. Woodson
• The Negro Faces America — Herbert J. Seligmann
• The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children — Myron T. Pritchard
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States — Benjamin Brawley
• Frederick Douglass: A Biography — Booker T. Washington
• Floyd’s Flowers — Silas Xavier Floyd
• Two Colored Women With the American Expeditionary Forces — Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson
• The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar — Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Africa and the Discovery of America — Leo Wiener
• The Book of American Negro Poetry — James Weldon Johnson
• The Negro — W.E.B. Du Bois