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xviii, 1082 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes index |
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Contains writings and brief biographical sketches of over fifty Afro-American authors, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, and Sterling A. Brown |
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Also issued online |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The short story -- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglasss -- The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Avey / Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- Fog / John F. Matheus -- The Flyer / Cecil Blue -- From black warriors / George Schuyler -- Slave on the block / Langston Hughes -- The making of mamma Harris / Ted Poston -- The night's for cryin' / Chester Himes -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The novel -- speculating in slaves / William Wells Brown -- Quadroon; Octoroon / William Wells Brown -- Conspiracy / Martin R. Delany -- The storm breaks / Charles W. Chestnutt -- Camp meeting / James Weldon Johnson -- The porter debates the senator / J.A. Rogers -- A negro doctor in the south / Walter White -- Color-struck / Jessie Fauset -- The treeing of the chef / Claude McKay -- Shine and Sheba / Rudolph Fisher -- Miss cramp and the function / Rudolph Fisher -- A world-shaking discovery / George Schuyler -- Niggeratti manor / Wallace Thurman -- Guitar / Langston Hughes -- Dance / George W. Henderson -- Sharecropping / George E. Lee -- Hurricane / Zora Neale Hurston -- Conspirator / Arna Bontemps -- The trail / Arna Bontemps -- Oystering / Arna Bontemps -- Steel mill rhythm / William Attaway -- Poetry -- To the Eael of Dartmouth / Phillis Wheatley -- His Excellency general Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley -- To George Moses Horton, myself / George Moses Horton -- On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton -- To Eliza / George Moses Horton -- America / James M. Whitfield -- Eliza Harris / Frances E.W. Harper -- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper -- Bury me in a free land / Frances E.W. Harper -- Let the light enter / Frances E.W. Harper -- From Twasinta's Seminoles; or rape of florida / Alvery A. Whitman -- Ere sleep comes down / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The party / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- At candle-lighting time / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Forever / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Robert Bould Shaw -- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Signs of the times / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A christmas folk song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Itching Heels / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A death song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ol' doc' Hyar / James Edwin Campbell -- When ol' sis Judy pray / James Edwin Campbell -- The watchers / W.S. Braithwaite -- Sandy Star / W.S. Braithwaite -- A litany at Atlanta / W.E.B. DuBois -- O black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson -- Brothers / James Weldon Johnson -- Sence you went away / James Weldon Johnson -- The prodigal son / James Weldon Johnson -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- St. Peter relates an incident / James Weldon Johnson -- So quietly / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Tuskegee / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglass -- The suppliant / Johnson -- I closed my shutters fast last night / Johnson -- I want to die while you love me / Johnson -- Hushed by the hands of sleep / Angelina W. Grimike -- Surrender / Angelina W. Grimke -- When the green lies over the earth / Angelina W. Grimke -- A winter twilight / Angelina W. Grimke -- The tragedy of Pete / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr -- And what shall you say? / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr -- Rain music / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- The scarlet woman / Fenton Johnson -- Baptism / Claude McKay -- America / Claude McKay -- White houses / Claude McKay -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- The lynching / Claude McKay -- Flame-heart / Claude McKay -- Life-long, poor browning / Anne Spencer -- At the carnival / Anne Spencer -- Before the feast of Shushan / Anne Spencer -- Line to a Nastutium / Anne Spencer -- Song of the son / Jean Toomer -- Georgia Dusk / Jean Toomer -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- To John Keats, poet at springtime / Countee Cullen -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- A brown girl dead / Countee Cullen -- From the dark tower / Countee Cullen -- Youth sings a song of rosebuds / Countee Cullen -- Pilate in modern America / George Leonard Allen -- To melody / George Leonard Allen -- The resurrection / Jonathan Brooks -- The last quarter moon of the dying year / Jonathan Brooks -- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes -- To midnight Nan at Leroy's / Langston Hughes -- Young Gal's blues / Langston Hughes -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes -- Song to a negro washwoman / Langston Hughes -- The death bed / Waring Cuney -- No images / Waring Cuney -- Hard time blues / Waring Cuney -- Northboun' / Lucy Ariel Williams -- Nigger / Frank Horne -- Nocturne at Bethesda / Arna Bontemps -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Long gone / Sterling A. Brown -- Slim in hell / Sterling A. Brown -- Southern road / Sterling A. Brown -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- Break of day / Sterling A. Brown -- Strong men / Sterling A. Brwon -- Snapshots of the cotton south / Frank Marshall Davis -- Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis -- Arhur Ridgewood, M.D. / Frank Marshall Davis -- Giles Johnson, Ph. D. / Frank Marshall Davis -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- I have seen black hands / Richard Wright -- Cradle song / Owen Dodson -- Miss Packard and Miss Giles / Owen Dodson -- Prophesy / Robert E. Hayden -- Gabriel / Robert E. Hayden -- Speech / Robert E. Hayden -- Obituary / Robert E. Hayden -- Bacchanal / Robert E. Hayden -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- Folk literature -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Swing low, swing chario' -- Steal away -- Deep river -- I got home in that rock -- I been rebuked and I been scorned -- De hammer keeps ringing -- De ole sheep dey know de road -- De blind man stood on the road -- He never said a mumbaling word -- Jushua fit de battle of Jericho -- O Mary. Don't you weep -- Go down, Moses -- Slavery chain -- No more auction block -- Noah -- If I had my way -- My God is a rock -- Slave Seculars -- Song (from Frederick Douglass) -- Song (from Martin R. Delany) -- Promises of freedom -- He is my horse -- Did you feed my cow? -- Folk song -- Run, nigger, run -- Raise a rukus tonight -- Aphorisms -- Ballads -- John Henry -- Bad man ballad -- Poor Lazarus -- De ballit of de boll weevil -- Old dog blue -- Frankie and Johnny -- Stackalee -- Work songs and social -- Songs -- Hammer song -- Death letter -- Roberta Lee -- It sound like thunder -- Hyah come de cap'm -- Social protest songs -- Standin' on de corner -- Lay down late -- Me and my cap'n -- Solicosis blues -- Blues -- St. Louis Blues -- Dink's blues -- Mamie's blues -- Grievin' hearted blues -- Dirty no-gooder's blues -- The southern blues -- She's ma Mary -- Backwater blues -- When the levee breaks -- St. Louis cyclone blues -- Hard times blues -- Folk tales -- From mules and men -- Folk sermon -- From Jonah's gourd vine |
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V Drama -- Bad man / Randolph Edmonds -- The seer / James w. Butchner, Jr -- Judgement day / Thomas D. Pawley, Jr -- From divine comedy / Owen Dodson -- From big white fog / Theodore Ward -- VI Speeches, pamphlets, and letters -- Attack upon abjectness and ignorance / David Walker -- Extinguishing an extinguisher / Henry Highland Garnet. -- Letter to his master / Frederick Douglass -- Speech in Fanueil hall / Frederick Douglass -- Speech on the fugitive slave bill / Samuel Ringgold Ward -- Letters / William Wells Brown -- Condition of free negroes / Martin R. Delany -- Practical efforts / Martin R. Delany -- Letter to Garrison / William C. Nell -- Speech before sentence / Charles Langston -- Reply to his old mistress / Jermain W. Loguen -- Life on the sea islands / Charlotte Forten -- Defense of the negro race / George H. White -- From the exodus / John Merger Langston -- Speech at the Atlanta exposition / Booker T. Washington -- The negro's place in world reorganization / Marcus Garvey -- The Faith of the American negro / Mordecai W. Johnson -- Good news for the underprivileged / Howard Thurman -- VII Biography -- Abolitionist rescue / Milton Clarke -- Home at dawn / Josiah Henson -- Christmas on bayou boeuf / Solomon Northup -- Treatment of slaves on Lloyd's plantation / Frederick Douglass -- The Death of Lincoln / Eliabeth Keckley -- Young school master / Daniel A. Payne -- Called to preach / Daniel A. Payne -- Birth and early childhood / Booker T. Washington -- War activities / Robert Russa Morton -- A Christian missionary college / William Pickens -- From the lower rungs of the ladder / Benjamin G. Brawley -- The DuBois-Washington controversy / W.E.B. DuBois -- Search for employment / W.S. Braithwaite -- Georgia trail / Angelo Herndon -- Captain F. and the mayor of Norfolk / William Still -- John Jasper: the sun do move / Benjamin G. Brawley -- Sojourner truth / Arthur Huff Fauset -- A Biographical sketch of Archibald H. Grimke -- Some personal reminiscences of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Paul Robeson and the provincetowers / Eslanda Goode Robeson -- VIII Essays Historical essays -- History made to order / Carter G. Woodson -- The Narrators / The Federal Writers -- Project -- From slave row -- Negro troops in civil war / George Washington Williams -- From the collapse of the confederacy / Charles H. Wesley -- Land and labor in the south / T Thomas Fortune -- An open letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr / Kelly Miller -- From the shadow of the plantation / Charles S. Johnson -- The pathology of race prejudice / E. Franklin Frazier -- The economics of the founding fathers / Abram L. Harris -- Disfranchisement of the negro / Ralph J. Bunche -- The education of the negro in the United States / Charles H. Thompson -- Cultural essays -- The new negro / Alain Locke -- Henry Ossawa Tanner / James A. Porter -- Early negro shows / James Weldon Johnson -- Of the sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois -- The negro dance / Katherine Dunham -- Personal essays -- A visit to Dunbar's tomb / Wendell Phillis Dabney -- I investigate lynchings / Walter White -- Mrs. Bailey pays the rent / Ira DeA. Reid -- A glorious company / Allison Davis -- A negro looks at his south / Horace Man Bond -- Confessions of an unwilling Nordic / Rayford W. Logan -- The ethics of living Jim Crow / Richard Wright |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors
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| Alt Author |
Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989
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Davis, Arthur Paul, 1904-1996
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Lee, Ulysses
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| Other Form |
Online version: Negro caravan. New York : Dryden Press, ©1941 (OCoLC)575504508 |
| OCLC # |
1967318 |
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