James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Langston Hughes
Barbara Smith (editor), Audre Lorde, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, June Jordan, Jewelle Gomez, Alice Walker, Luisah Teish, Gloria Hull, Michelle Cliff, and Bernice Johnson Reagon