New Exhibit Highlights African American Literature

The University of Houston Libraries is opening an exhibit in honor of Black History Month.

Literature by African American writers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, will be on display at the University of Houston Libraries in February.

Literature by African American writers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, will be on display at the University of Houston Libraries in February.

In conjunction with the African American Read-In scheduled for February 9, the exhibit, African American Literature, Modern and Contemporary, will include rare and first editions of books by 20th and 21st century African American writers such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, and Mat Johnson, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day.

The exhibit will run from February 1 through February 29 near Special Collections in the MD Anderson Library (second floor).

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