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AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN NEGRO LITERATURE

Sylvestre C. Watkins, Ed.

PREFACE by Sylvestre C. Watkins

INTRODUCTION by John T. Frederick

SHORT STORIES

Richard Wright Almos’ a Man

Claude McKay Truant

Langston Hughes One Friday Morning

C. W. Chesnutt The Goophered Grapevine*

Rudolph Fisher The City of Refuge

Zora N. Hurston The Gilded Six-Bits

Arna Bontemps A Summer Tragedy

ESSAYS

Roi Ottley The Negro Press Today

A.A. Schomburg The Negro Digs Up His Past*

Benjamin Brawley The Negro in American Fiction*

J.W. Johnson The History of the Spiritual

Alain Locke The Negro in American Culture*

W.E.B. Du Bois The Freedmen’s Bureau*

C.S. Johnson Striking the Economic Balance

E.F. Frazier The Negro Family in the United States

Walter White I Investigate Lynchings*

C.G. Woodson Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship*

Sterling Brown Contemporary Negro Poetry, 1914-1936

Langston Hughes What the Negro Wants

G.S. Schuyler Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Negro

A.P. Randolph Why Should We March?

Allison Davis Color, Caste & Economic Relations in the Deep South

H.M. Gloster Charles W. Chesnutt, Pioneer in the Fiction of Negro Life

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

W.E.B. Du Bois Revolution

J.S. Redding No Day of Triumph

W.C. Handy St. Louis Blues and Solvent Bank

J. W. Johnson Along This Way

Richard Wright The Ethics of Living Jim Crow

W.S. Braithwaite The House Under Arcturus

T.R. Poston The Revolt of the Evil Fairies

BIOGRAPHIES

Arna Bontemps Rock, Church, Rock!

Zora Hurston Lawrence of the River

J.E. Washington William de Fleurville

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

* Also included in the earlier anthology

Contributed by:

John Peterson