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AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN NEGRO LITERATURE

V. F. Calverton, Ed.

 

INTRODUCTION

            V.F. Calverton, “The Growth of Negro Literature”

 

FICTION

 

            Short Story

                        Jean Toomer, “Fern”

                        Charles Waddell Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine”

                        Eric Walrond, “The Yellow One”

                        Rudolph Fisher, “Blades of Steel”

 

            Novel

                        Walter White, “The Fire in the Flint”

                        W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Dark Princess”

                        Jessie Fauset, “There is Confusion”

                        Wallace Thurman, “The Blacker the Berry”

                        Nella Larsen, “Quicksand”

                        Claude McKay, “Home to Harlem”

                        Rudolph Fisher, “Walls of Jericho”

 

DRAMA

                        Georgia Douglas Johnson, “Plumes”

                        Jonathan Matheus, “’Cruiter”

 

POETRY        (36 poems, 21 authors)

                       

SPIRITUALS

                        “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”

                        “Go Down Moses”

                        “All God’s Chillun Got Wings”

                        “Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere”

                        “Deep River”

 

LABOR SONGS

                        “Work Song”

                        “Water Boy”

                        “Casey Jones”

                        “John Henry”

                        “Rain or Shine”

 

 

 

 

ESSAYS

            Literary

                        Benjamin Brawley, “The Negro in American Fiction”

                        Alain Locke, “The Negro in American Culture”

                        Clarence Cameron White, “Negro’s Gift to American Music”

 

            Historical

                        W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Freedman’s Bureau”

                        Arthur A. Schomburg, “The Negro Digs Up His Past”

                       

            Sociological

                        Charles S. Johnson, “The Negro Migration”

                        Abram L. Harris, “The Negro and the New Economic Life”

                        Charles Wesley, “Organized Labor and the Negro”

                        Kelly Miller, “The Disgrace of Democracy”

                        E. Franklin Frazier, “La Bourgeoisie Noire”

                        Walter White, “I Investigate Lynchings”

                        George S. Schuyler, “Our Greatest Gift to America”

                        Carter G. Woodson, “Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship”

                        Thomas Dabney, “Dominant Forces in Race Relations”

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

                        Frederick Douglass, “Autobiography”

                        Booker T. Washington, “Up from Slavery”

                        James Weldon Johnson, “The Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man”

           

Contributed by:

John Peterson