Black History Month: 10 must-read classics by African American authors

Check out some of the most celebrated books to offer insight into the broad range of the African American experience in the United States.

7. ‘Blues People: Negro Music in White America,’ by Amiri Baraka

“Blues People” is a classic of African American history. The book explores the place of jazz and blues in American cultural and social history and it documents the evolution of African American music in white America. Baraka’s groundbreaking study “introduced jazz studies to the American academia.”

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