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Slavery and reconstruction - Margaret Walker, "Jubilee"; "Dessa Rose",Sherely Williams; "Beloved", Toni Morrison; from the Great War to World WarII - Toni Morrison, "The Bluest Eye"; "The Color Purple", Alice Walker;harbingers of change - Harlem - Louise Meriwether, "Daddy Was a NumberRunner"; Alice Childress, "A Short Walk"; Rosa Guy, "A Measure of Time"; oncollision course with history - private lives before the movement - AliceWalker, "Grange Copeland"; Toni Morrison, "Sula"; from desegregation tovoting rights - Toni Morrison, "Song of Solomon"; Kristen Hunter, "LakestownRebellion"; Ntozake Shange, "Sassefras, Cypress and Indigo" and "BetsyBrown"; the new reconstruction - Alice Walker, "Meridian"; Toni Cade Bambara,"The Salteaters; "Toni Morrison, "Tar Baby; Gloria Naylor, "Brewster Place",Linden Hills", and "Mama Day". Afterword - Alice Walker's "The Temple of MyFamiliar".