By Subject of Literary Work - African Americans
- Champion
- The Chaneysville Incident
- Cheer the Lonesome Traveler
- Chesapeake
- Chester Himes
- The Chicago Sends a Man to Little Rock
- Children of Crisis
- The Children of the Poor
- Childtimes
- The Chinaberry Tree
- A Chocolate Soldier
- A Choice of Weapons
- Choices
- The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
- Chosen Poems
- Clotel
- Cloud Chamber
- Coal
- The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
- The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
- Color Me Real
- The Color Purple
- The Colored Museum
- Colored People
- Come Out the Wilderness
- Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Coming Up Down Home
- The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
- The Condition, Elevation, Migration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Politically Considered
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- The Conjure-Man Dies
- Contending Forces
- The Content of Our Character
- The Convict
- Corregidora
- Cotton Comes to Harlem
- The Crazy Kill
- The Creation
- Crusade for Justice
- The Culture of Disbelief
- Daddy Was a Number Runner
- Daggers and Javelins
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane
- dem
- Dessa Rose
- Destructive Generation
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- A Diary from Dixie
- Disappearing Acts
