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Black and white frame shows 2 women seated at a cafe table with a man in an army uniform. Caption. No, you'll fight before you'll marry.

Group of people stand in a cluster with cars in background. Caption. Living inside and outside of mainstream American society.

Black and white photo of the midsection of a woman with long, dark hair. Caption. Sarah was also the first American Indian.

2 women and 2 men gathered in an upscale living room setting, hunting rifle visible on display on rear wall. Caption. Emily. Hide the silver.

Group of actors wearing Civil War-era costumes stand and watch a figure who resembles Abraham Lincoln. Caption. Elected him to the state legislature.

Black and white frame with 2 boys wearing hats and overalls looking downward. Caption. Think, Tom, we can do anything we want now.

Black and white frame shows 2 men in uniform staring intently at another man in uniform. Caption. When you get home, will you call my mother.

Film still of Charlton Heston in Call of the Wild wearing a heavy fur coat and sitting at a table with a red uniformed man. Caption. I can get you a bonus for getting back there quick.

Black and white frame of judge facing crowded courtroom gallery. Caption. The sooner we get started, the better chance we have.

Closeup of a handwritten poem from Edgar Allen Poe in black ink on parchment paper.

Black and white blurred painting of a man wearing a top hat and riding a horse.

Man wearing glasses speaks to camera, gesturing forward with his hands, against a black background.

Senior man looks slightly down with mouth open against a black background. Text on image reads, Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University.

Exterior photo of a stone monument depicting a chalice on a tiered platform.

Man wearing a vintage white shirt, vest and bowtie looking down and away with a serious expression on his face.

Illustration shows Edgar Allen Poe’s large white tombstone in the middle of downtown Baltimore. Text reads, “Edgar Allan Poe.”

Black and white photo of Ernest Hemingway leaning over his desk as he writes on a pad of paper. Text reads, “Ernest Hemingway. A gifted rebel.”

Portrait painting of Henry James with a colonial brick building behind it. Text reads, “Henry James.”

Black and white portrait of John Steinbeck with rows of tilled soil behind it. Text reads, “John Steinbeck. 1902-1968.”

Black and white portrait of Mark Twain. Text reads, “Mark Twain. 1835-1910.”

Close up on a painting portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Text reads, “Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

Black and white portrait of Walt Whitman looking at us with his head resting on his hand. Text reads, “Walt Whitman. 1819-1892.”

Black and white portrait of William Faulkner leaning against a brick wall. Behind the photo is a large white house with a path lined by trees leading up to it. Text reads, “William Faulkner. 1897-1962.”

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2 women walk down a street, 1 carrying a basket and other a bag of groceries. Caption. Now, if you were smart you'd leave it too.

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Adam Bradley, Ph.D (Part One)

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Adam Bradley, Ph.D (Part Two)

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu, Ph.D

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Dana A. Williams, Ph.D

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Joanne v. Gabbin, Ph.D (Part One)

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Joanne v. Gabbin, Ph.D (Part Two)

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Marlon Ross, Ph.D

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Shelia Smith McKoy, Ph.D

Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Tara T. Green, Ph.D (Part Two)

Wide shot of a university plaza with several multi-story white and red buildings. Caption. Of every major American university's curriculum.

Interview with young man in an office setting. He is identified as Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu, P, H, D, Professor of English, University of Missouri Kansas City. Caption. Who would help African Americans and America, as well.

Middle-aged black man looks just off camera with an incredulous expression like he is speaking to camera for an interview. Caption. Give him blackness, and then bid him to sing?

Interview with middle-aged Black man in an office setting. He is identified as Marlon Ross, PhD, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Virginia. Caption. A confrontation between a subjugated, Black protagonist.

Black and white photo of a man wearing sunglasses standing next to a fifties-era vehicle parked in front of a storefront.

Black and white photo of a young Maya Angelou smiling in a room with several African masks and sculptures. Caption. Far stranger than most of the characters that she's created.

Interview with man wearing a business suit in an office setting. He's looking up with a thoughtful expression and gesturing with his hands. Caption. One that helped to fix.

Interview with Black woman wearing a brown jacket and white blouse against a bookshelf backdrop. Caption. Is a story that shows the sort of strength that he had.

Person wearing a sun hat surrounded by tall plants in a garden setting. Caption. Life in New England was simple and rewarding.

Low shot looking up at the branches of tall trees as light filters through the leaves. Caption. Thoreau maintained his life on Walden Pond.

Black and white illustration of Louisa May Alcott reading from a book to a room of young girls looking up at her with attentive expressions. Caption. Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832.

Black and white image of a college campus with an overlay portrait photo of William Carlos Williams. Caption. The University of Pennsylvania medical school.

Black and white portrait of Thomas Wolfe wearing a white collared shirt, dark necktie, and suspenders. He's looking at camera with a serious expression. Caption. Some of the greatest American literature ever written.

Black and white photo of Ernest Hemingway crouching down and holding 2 pairs of antelope antlers. Caption. To become involved in.

Black and white photo of a busy city street with trains, trolleys, and fifties-era cars. Caption. Brooks moved with her family to Chicago at an early age.

Black and white photo of Lorraine Hansberry's parents posing next to a piano. Caption. Her parents were intellectuals and activists.

Outdoor bronze statue of a man sitting and holding a pencil. Text reads, “Great Poets of the World. English-language Poets 1831 - 1894.”

Black and white frame of 2 men, 1 woman and 2 teenage girls. Teenagers are speaking to the man. Caption. More about your truck than you did?

Aerial shot of 2 people on the ground with arms and legs akimbo, illuminated by a blue light. Caption. Man, as Hemingway. There are no heroes in this war.

Black and white close up frame of 2 men, 1 standing wearing a suit and a cap and 1 sitting wearing a suite and speaking from On the Waterfront. Caption. All city editors are unnecessary.

Black and white frame shows Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. He's surrounded by his family who are smiling, hugging, and happy to see him.

Black and white frame of a woman and man in evening clothes seated at a cocktail table. Caption. I'll give you two more.

Three young men wearing tricorn hats. Caption. Your are not to fire unless fired upon.

Deciduous forest with green grass and sunlight shining through.

White man wearing a pince nez and teenage boy sit at a dining table. Boy is turned towards man who holds a piece of paper. Caption. What is it, Father?

Black and white photo of a calf. Caption. Mr. Reynolds as narrator. It would be heartless to separate them.

Man dressed in a costume that resembles Mark Twain looks off camera. Caption. Had been able to make like, 5 dollars, just 5 dollars more a week.

Man wearing a plaid shirt, denim overalls, smoking a cigar, looks ahead from the driver's seat. Next to him, a woman wearing a sun hat with a pensive expression. Caption. I don't mean that.

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Group of Black people in formal attire talk in small groups in a living area. Caption. If you need anything, just yell.

Drawing of a mythical face with sinister eyes and open mouth with sharp teeth. Animal pelt hangs in background. Caption. Is of the early explorations and voyages.

2 Black men lean against a fence and look up, light illuminating their faces. Caption. A young black man whose family has moved from the South.

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Does the Government Pay for Art?

Black and white film still of a woman wearing a hat, white shirt, and overalls talking to a man in a suit. Caption. Well I guess I better be getting' off to the baseball field.

Black and white film still of a young woman looking through prison bars with a worried expression on her face.

Black and white portrait of a young Robert Frost holding a hand against his cheek with 1 finger raised to his temple.

Gregory Peck in the Snows of Kilimanjaro and a woman talking at night in a campground. Both wear expedition clothing. Caption. Because I'd found the answer to a riddle, that's why.

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Closeup of Edgar Allan Poe's tombstone with carved raven. Caption. But even Poe's greatest success.

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Leslie Howard in a dark suit looks down at a newspaper standing next to 2 women who are looking at him. Caption. Mind you, the coffee must be very hot, as well.

Woman wearing a casual red polka dot dress, brown apron, and gardening hat, smiles and looks up. Caption. And then to a picture show to celebrate.

Black and white frame of 4 men, 2 are uniformed police officers. All have intense expressions. Caption. I found the gun that killed Brent.

Woman with head covered in ragged scarf looking at a table with small trinkets. Caption. Mailman as narrator. Boy, there's Della Young.

Low shot of boy with man standing behind him. Caption. You were spying, weren't you?

Black and white frame of senior woman looking down and working with her hands, surrounded by others. Caption. As Steinbeck was writing it, people were living it.

Black and white image of the New York City skyline across the Hudson River. Caption. The East in the book represents wealth.

Black and white frame of two women seated together surrounded by a crowd people. Caption. I'm going to buy a $2 ticket.

Black and white frame of a mustachioed man in a doorway, facing camera. Caption. Would you step in for a moment, please?

Elizabeth Taylor dressed in evening gown from the movie, The Last Time I Saw Paris. She leans over a man in white collared dress shirt lying on his back on a couch. Caption. What's the matter, darling?

Black and white frame of a man on horseback wearing a white laced shirt, cowboy hat and black scarf and eye mask. Caption. This is the story of one of the most mysterious characters.

Statue of Margaret Fuller, 1800s writer. Caption. A feminist, an author, a writer, a teacher.

Color illustration of a senior fisherman with a boy in a hat at his side from, The Old Man and the Sea. Caption. I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening.

Portrait painting of a blonde woman with curly hair in a decorative gold frame. Caption. With my vision riveted upon the portrait.

Movie frame shows a lion rearing up on its hind legs in the foreground, a young woman pulling another person towards a door, lion tamer holding a weapon and seated on a beam above. Caption. I'm so sorry, dear.

Low shot of men wearing denim jeans and work boots walking along train tracks at night. Caption. Whistle blowing.

Group of men wearing Civil War-era Union soldier costumes in a forest setting. Caption. That had thrilled him with their sweep and fire.

Black and white frame of 2 men and 2 women seated around a circular table. Caption. She's like an ornery heifer sometimes.

Woman in 1800s farm clothes walking down the front steps of a home. Boy holds a horse's reins. Caption. He said his name was Gitano, and he's come back.

Young woman wearing a red velvet dress holds a baby in her arms and looks into camera. Caption. See how sin defaces the beautiful framework of God.

2 men in cowboy hats and Western attire stand opposite one another. Caption. All I can do now is take him over and find out.

Man wearing a business suit presents an architectural rendering of an exterior building to a man seated at a conference table. Caption. It's called Emily's Home.

Rear view shot of a woman seated at a desk looking at a computer. She appears to be in the midst of a video call with a woman in medical scrubs standing in front of floral wallpaper. Caption. Miss Drummond, it's so nice to hear back from you.

Walden Pond in fall with changing colors and still water reflecting the landscape.

Black and white movie frame from To Kill a Mockingbird shows Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch seated in the passenger side of a vehicle. Caption. Heck as narrator. I'll send Zeebo out right away to pick him up.

Black and white frame of men running down a road and away from a dinosaur. Caption. Narrator. Horror fiction has many subgenres.

Color promotional poster of Zorro. Depicted are scenes of Zorro horse riding, sword fighting, arguing and defending people.