614 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Coleman (Wanda) on 111
Cooper (J. California) on 118
Dodson (Owen Vincent) on
143
Douglass (Frederick) on 381
Dove (Rita Frances) on 147
Everett (Percival) on 174
Gates (Henry Louis, Jr.) on 400
Golden (Marita) on 207
Guy-Shetfall (Beverly) on 220
Hamer (Forrest) on 223
Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins)
on 233
Jacobs (Harriet) on 267, 272
Johnson (Angela) on 277
Johnson (Georgia Douglas) on
280–281
Jones (Gayl) on 121, 212
Jordan (June) on 289
Kincaid (Jamaica) on 15–16,
302–303
Lorde (Audre Geraldine) on
577
Marshall (Paule) on 337, 338
McMillan (Terry) on 351
Milner (Ronald) on 361
Moody (Anne) on 364, 365
Morrison (Toni) on 40–41, 274,
409, 454–455
Naylor (Gloria) on 387, 561
Nugent (Richard Bruce) on 470
Petry (Ann) on 483
Randall (Alice) on 558
Randall (Dudley) on 428
Ross (Frances) on 440
Sapphire on 449–450
Shakur (Tupac) on 457
Slade (Leonard, Jr.) on 468
West (Dorothy) on 316
Williams (Sherley Anne) on
554
Wilson (Harriet) on 557
Wright (Richard) on 50
“Mother to Son” (Hughes) 22, 450
Motion of Light in Water, The: Sex
and Science Fiction in the East Vil-
lage (Delany) 135
Motley, Willard Francis 371–372
MOVE 31, 415, 551
Movement in Black (Parker) 405
“Mr. Roosevelt Regrets” (Murray)
379
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter (Step-
toe) 481
Muhammad, Elijah 4, 23, 330, 473
Muhammad Speaks 330
Mulatto (Hughes) 257, 258, 535
Mule Bone (Hughes and Hurston)
45, 260
Mules and Men (Hurston) 187,
260, 372–373
Mullen, Harryette Romell 373–
375, 440
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed) 375–376,
433–434, 505
Murphy, Geraldine 175
Murray, Albert 376–378
Train Whistle Guitar 504
Murray, Pauli 378–380
Museum (Dove) 147
Music from Home: Selected Poems
(McElroy) 345
Muslim Mosque Incorporated
(MMI) 24, 330
“MY ACE OF SPADES” (Joans) 276
My Bondage and My Freedom
(Douglass) 144, 145–146
My Brother (Kincaid) 303
My Brother’s Keeper: Blackmen’s Po-
etry Anthology (Datcher) 132
“My Dream” (Slade) 468
My Dream of Martin Luther King
(Ringgold) 438
My Father’s Geography (Weaver)
536
My Life of Absurdity (Himes) 263
My Main Mother (Beckham) 39
“My Own Thing” (Fabio) 178
“My Race” (Johnson) 281
My Soul to Keep (Due) 152
My Special Best Words (Steptoe)
481
Mythmaker (Brown) 79N
NAACP. See National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People
NACW. See National Association of
Colored Women
Nails and Thorns (Miller) 359
Naked Came the Manatee (Due)
153“Names and Sorrows” (Green) 77
Nappily Ever After (Thomas)
495–496
Nappy Edges (Shange) 459
“Narcissus Loved Rivers Best”
(Shepherd) 462
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The:
A Bondswoman of Olden Time
(Gilbert) 510
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave,
Written by Himself (Douglass) v,
144, 145, 381–382, 446, 489
Narrative of the Life Olaudah
Equiano. See Interesting Narrative
of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
(Equiano)
Narrows, The (Petry) 412
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
(NAACP) 383–384
Brooks (Gwendolyn) in 73
in Civil Rights movement 105
Cotter (Joseph Seamon, Sr.)
in 124
Davis (Ossie) in 133
Fauset (Jessie Redmon) in 180
foundation of 149, 150, 231, 383
Grimké (Angelina Weld) spon-
sored by 425
and Harlem Renaissance 230
Hughes (Langston) on 258
Jacobs (Harriet) in 272
Johnson (James Weldon) in
283, 284, 383, 547
magazine of. See Crisis, The
Moody (Anne) in 365
on Nigger Heaven (Van Vech-
ten) 395
Schuyler (George) in 55, 451
on Scottsboro case 66
and Universal Negro Improve-
ment Association 198
Walrond (Eric) on 530
Wells-Barnett (Ida B.) in 539
White (Walter Francis) in 547,
548
National Association of Colored
Women (NACW) 158, 233, 539
National Organization for Women
379