Index 611“Last M.F., The” (Rodgers) 439
Last of the Conquerors (Smith) 469
“Late Conjecture” (Miller) 360
Lawd Today (Wright) 567
“Lazarus, Come Forth” (Cleaver)
474
Learning Tree, The (film) 406
Lee, Don Luther. See Madhubuti,
Haki
Lee, Spike 311–312, 420, 447
Lee, Ulysses, The Negro Caravan
80, 91, 124, 392–393
Leopard’s Spots, The (Dixon) 215
lesbian identity/experience. See also
homosexuality
in Afrekete (McKinley and DeL-
aney) 5–6
Belton (Don) on 42
Boykin (Keith) on 69
Gomez (Jewelle) on 208, 209
in Go the Way Your Blood Beats
(Ruff ) 212
Harris (E. Lynn) on 237
James (Glenroy Winston) on
273
Lorde (Audre Geraldine) on
318, 576, 577–578
Naylor (Gloria) on 387
Neely (Letta) on 391
Parker (Pat) on 404, 405
Phillips (Carl) on 416
Powell (Patricia) on 419
Riggs (Marlon) on 437
Saint (Assotto) on 442
Sinclair (April) on 466
Lesson Before Dying, A (Gaines)
194, 195
Lesson in Dead Language, A (Ken-
nedy) 299
Lester, Julius 312–313
Let Me Breathe Thunder (Attaway)
19
“Let Me Live with Marriage” (Jor-
dan) 289
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
(Motley) 372
“LETS GET VIOLENT” (Joans)
276
“Letter from A Birmingham Jail”
(King) 304, 313–315
“Letter from Phillis Wheatley, A”
(Hayden) 240
“Letters and Numbers of Straw,
The” (Celestine) 94
“Letters from a New England
Negro” (Williams) 554
“Letter to Audre Lorde, A” (Hemp-
hill) 578
“Letter to Gregory” (Miller) 76
“Letter to My Students” (Kennedy)
300
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
(Kenan) 298, 523
Lewis, David Levering 186, 396,
507
Lewis, Ida 172
Lewis, William Henry 315
Liberating Voices (Jones) 288
Liberia 53–54, 196, 451, 500
Liberian Exodus and Joint Stock
Steamship Company 54
Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
(Tolson) 500
Lie and Say You Love Me (McElroy)
345
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” (John-
son and Johnson) 282
Light, The (Aasim) 4
Light in the Dark, A (Simmons)
465
“Like a Winding Sheet” (Petry) 413
Lincoln, Abraham 146
Linden Hills (Naylor) 387
Lindsay, Vachel 45
Lion and the Archer, The (Hayden
and O’Higgins) 239
Lipstick Papers, The (Gomez) 208
Littel, Robert 232
Little, Malcolm. See Malcolm X
Living Blood, The (Due) 152
Living for the City (Tervalon) 489
Living Is Easy, The (West) 315–
316, 542
Locke, Alain Leroy 316–317
and Davis (Ossie) 132
and Ellison (Ralph) 168
on Fire!! 184, 470
and Miller (May) 359
The New Negro 72, 97, 185, 216,
230, 317, 392, 394–395, 397,
502
on Nigger Heaven (Van Vech-
ten) 395
Lofton, Ramona. See SapphireLonely Crusade (Himes) 248
Long, Naomi Cornelia. See
Madgett, Naomi Long
Long Distance Life (Golden) 206
Long Dream, The (Wright) 414,
567
Long Night, The (Mayfield) 341
“Lonnie’s Cousin” (Coleman) 111
Lookin’ for Luv (Weber) 537
“Lookout, The” (Colter) 114
Look Out Whitey! Black Power Is
Gon’ Get Your Mama! (Lester) 312
Lorde, Audre Geraldine 58, 317–
320, 405, 493
Zami 6, 576–579
Lost in the City (Jones) 285
Lotus Press 323, 324, 546
Louder Arts Project 63
Love of Landry, The (Dunbar) 156
Love of My Own (Harris) 237
Love Poem to a Black Junkie
(White) 546
“Lover’s Farewell, The” (Horton)
255
Love’s Instruments (Dixon) 142
Love Story Black (Demby) 136
Love the One You’re With (Hardy)
229
“Low Down and Sweet” (Hernton)
246
Lowell, James Russell 126
Lowry, J. S. 6
“Low Yellow” (Brooks) 339–340
Lubin, Yves Francois. See Saint, As-
sotto
Lucy (Kincaid) 302–303
Lynchers, The (Wideman) 550
Lyric: Poems along a Broken Road
(James) 273
Lyrics in Love and Laughter (Dun-
bar) 156
Lyrics of Lowly Life (Dunbar) 155,
320–321
Lyrics of the Hearthside (Dunbar)
156M
M. C. Higgins, the Great (Hamil-
ton) 224
Mackey, Nathaniel 322–323
Mad at Miles (Cleage) 106