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Afro-American Literature: The Goals and the Experience

at Berkeley High School was reflected in the limited knowledge of the teachers in the English Department as we prepared for the course for the first time, a year ago. Most of us had read the major works of the Big Three of American Negro writers-Baldwin, Ellison, and Wright-but few of us had read much beyond the names of the bulk of black writers; I suspect that none of us were aware of the literary history of Negro writing in America, a history which began when the slave Lucy Terry wrote her