The QBR 100

Jubilee (1966) is a historical novel written by Margaret Walker, which focuses on the story of a biracial enslaved woman during the American Civil War. It is set in Georgia and later in various parts of Alabam...

"Dr. Kwame Nkrumah begins Africa Must Unite with the words freedom, hedsole, sawaha, uhuru: the slogans of what he calls "the greatest political phenomenon of the latter part of the twentieth century--African...

David Walker's Appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks white injustice and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1830 intensified the debate and struggle against slavery....

An explosive, award-winning novel in the Black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to foc...

A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the historical (slave) narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly ...

A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched analysis details the development...

From Slavery to Freedom -first published in 1947 and continually updated with more than three million copies have been sold - describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and African cultures in t...

“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments i...

Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the ...

"If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it." --Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books "That we the Black people are one people we know. Destroyers will travel lo...