For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, a play by Ntozake Shange, was published in 1977. This play focuses on African-American women striving to maintain their dignity and self-respect.

Florence, a play by Alice Childress, was first produced in 1949. It delves into the racism prevalent in the South during the Jim Crow era. The main character, an actress named Florence who resides in New York City, struggles to find employment.

The First Black Actors On the Great White Way is a nonfiction book authored by Susan Curtis in 1998. The book chronicles the history of black actors in New York City.

A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, premiered on Broadway in 1959. The narrative centers around the life of a resilient black woman.

Like One of the Family Conversations from a Domestic’s Life (1956) is a series of monologues written by Alice Childress. The protagonist, an African-American domestic worker named Mildred Johnson, shares her experiences working for white families and her life as an unmarried woman.