novel story - The Afro-American History - The Civil Rights Movement

While the American civil rights movement, authors like Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the problems of racial segregation and black nationalism.
As more and more black writers produced bestseller and award winner, has become the book African-American common in the 1970s. At that time, researchers have begun to accept African-American writers and African-American novels as a legitimate part of the literary canon.
Toni Morrison was an editor at Random House in the 1960s and 1970s, and helped to publish literature and black writers promote books by authors such as Toni Cade Bambara and Gayl Jones. Later it was a great American writers of the 20th Century of his own. She wrote her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. "Beloved", held the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, is his most famous novel. This novel, which won a prize, is about a slave to kill her daughter to stop, decided a slave. Song of Songs, which draws on themes of materialism and of brotherhood, is another novel Key. The first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Morrison.
A famous comeback attempt, Zora Neale Hurston, and his famous novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" to the attention of the literary world by Alice Walker, novelist and poet of the 1970s. Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple, and the price of the book in America. The main character in The Color Purple, Celie, the story of a young girl who has no choice in marriage to an abusive husband after they are brought up by using a step father to abuse them sexually. Later, the novel was adapted for film by Steven Spielberg.
Genre fiction is another filter from the literature that African American is. Chester Himes is one of the most famous of his kind, his series of detective novels about New York was "Coffin Ed Johnson and" Gravedigger "Jones in the 1950s and 60s known. The influence of the earlier novels Himes' can in the thriller by Hugh Holton and Walter Mosley be seen.
A highlight was great as Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Known World, "a novel about a black slave, who was in the Civil War. Contribute a better translation