Program one introduces authors who gave voice to the struggles of Blacks in the early days of this nation. The beginnings of African American literature are chronicled through the works of Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Booker T. Washington., 1761 - Jupiter Hammon, America's first published Black writer -- 1773 - Phillis Wheatley completes her "Poems on Various Subjects" -- 1855 - Frederick Douglass publishes "My Bondage and My Freedom" -- 1899 - Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy" -- 1901 - Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up From Slavery."