This book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation.  Meer

The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America.  Meer

William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926) was the first professional classicist of African-American descent. THis volume is the first collection of Scarborough's published writings, introduced by his biographer, classicist Michelle Ronnick.  Meer