American and Afro-American Literature

FAIN: FB-11365-72

University of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC 20008-1122)
Mary W. McHenry (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To do original research studying the work of eight Negro teacher-critics who wrote between 1935 and 1960: Arna Bontemps, Benjamin Brawley, Sterling Brown, Mercer Cook, Arthur P. Davis, Saunders Redding. Their criticism and writings were influential in keeping alive literature written by Afro-Americans in a period before the present interest in Black literature.