Statistics for African American Authors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman	Maya Angelou	88%
Invisible Man, Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting	Ralph Ellison	78%
Beloved, Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	78%
Dreams of my Father, Promised Land	Barack Obama	76%
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Alex Haley	73%
The Color Purple, Meridian, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women	Alice Walker	73%
Native Son, Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Power	Richard Wright	66%
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses: Man of the Mountain,	Zora Neale Hurston	66%
If Beale Street Could Talk, Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	61%
My Bondage and My Freedom	Fredrick Douglas	59%
The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, The Negro, Black Folk Then and Now	W.E.B. Du Bois	44%
Kindred, Fledgling, The Earthseed Series, Xenogenesis	Octavia Butler	32%
The Underground Railroad, Sag Harbor, The Colossus of New York	Colson Whitehead	29%
Women Race and Class, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, Women Culture and Politics	Angela Davis	22%
The Ways of White Folks, Not Without Laughter, The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes	22%
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America	Ta-Nehisi Coats	22%
Food Health and Happiness, Journey to Beloved, What I Know for Sure	Oprah Winfrey	15%