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A Thematically Arranged Collection Of Short Selections And Excerpts From The Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, And Drama Of Famous And Lesser-known Black American Writers Active Between 1910 And 1940. Protest Literature. Fifty Years / James Weldon Johnson; The Edict / Roscoe C. Jamison; To A Caged Canary In A Negro Restaurant / Leslie Pinckney Hill; Self-determination / Leslie Pinckney Hill; Daybreak / George M. Mcclellan; I See And Am Satisfied / Kelly Miller; America / Claude Mckay; Close Ranks / W.e.b. Dubois; The Lynching Industry: 1919 / The Crisis Staff; Brothers / Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.; The Bomb Thrower / Will Sexton; Incident / Countee Cullen; Pilate In Modern / George Leonard Allen; America / George Leonard Allen; Prejudice / Georgia Douglas Johnson; Black Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson; Old Lem / Sterling A.^ Brown; Blood-burning Moon / Jean Toomer; America's Greatest Institution: The Klu Klux Klan / A Kluxer; A Festival In Christendom / Walter Everette Hawkins; Snapshots Of The Cotton South / Frank Marshall Davis; White Things / Anne Spencer; Saint Peter Relates And Incident Of The Resurrection Day / James Weldon Johnson; For A Lady I Know / Countee Cullen; Yet I Do Marvel / Countee Cullen; Old Jim Crow / Anonymous; The Pathology Of Race Prejudice / E. Franklin Frasier; Our Greatest Gift To America / George S. Schuyler --^ The Genteel School: We Are Like You.. After The Winter / Claude Mckay; Flower Of Love / Claude Mckay; I Want To Die While You Love Me / Georgia Douglas Johnson; The Heart Of A Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson; Noblesse Oblige / Jessie Fauset; La Vie C'est La Vie Rondeau / Jessie Fauset; The Wife-woman / Anne Spencer; At The Carnival / Anne Spencer; Before The Feast Of Shushan / Anne Spencer; Your Hands / Angelina Grimke; Grass Fingers / Angelina Grimke; The Bright Chimeric Best / Countee Cullen; To John Keats, Poet, At Springtime / Countee Cullen; The Watchers / William Stanley Braithwaite; Sandy Star / William Stanley Braithwaite; There Is Confusion / Jessie Fauset; Mortgaged / Willis Richardson; Rhobert / Jean Toomer; Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis; Arthur Ridgewood, M.d. / Frank Marshall Davis; Giles Johnson, Ph. D. / Frank Marshall Davis; The Autobiography Of An Ex-coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson; Passing / Nella Larsen --^ Nigger Heaven: Variations On A Theme. Why I Like Harlem / Ira De A. Reid; Harlem Night Club / Langston Hughes; Jazzonia / Langston Hughes; Negro Dancers / Langston Hughes; To Midnight Nan At Leroy's Place / Helene Johnson; Poem / Helene Johnson; Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem / Countee Cullen; She Of The Dancing Feet Sings / Countee Cullen; Harlem Wine / Claude Mckay; Home To Harlem / Ira De A. Reid; Mrs. Bailey Pays The Rent / Ira De A. Reid; The Big Sea / Langston Hughes; Slave On The Block / Langston Hughes; The Walls Of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher; Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven / W.e.b. Dubois; Minstrel Men / Langston Hughes; The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes; Young Prostitute / Langston Hughes; Harlem Shadows / Claude Mckay; The Harlem Dancer / Claude Mckay; Tired / Fenton Johnson --^ The African Heritage. Danse Africaine / Langston Hughes; Nude Young Dancer / Langston Hughes; Enchantment / Lewis Alexander; Sahdji / Richard Bruce (nugent); The Return / Arna Bontemps; Bottled / Helene Johnson; The Story Of Africa / W.e.b. Dubois; Morning Light Of The Dew-drier / Effie Lee Newsome; Conversion / Effie Lee Newsome; Africa / June Toomer; Wake Up Ethiopia / Claude Mckay; No One Knows / Marcus Garvey; Africa / Lewis Alexander; Afro-american / Langston Hughes; Fragment / Langston Hughes; Heritage / Countee Cullen; Bambaata--leader Of The Zulu Revolt / J.a. Rogers; The Legacy Of The Ancestral Arts / Alain Locke; Slaves Today / George S. Schuyler; American Negro Folk Literature / Arthur Fauset; Slim In Hell / Sterling A. Brown; The Tragedy Of Pete / Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.^; The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston; Mules And Men / Zora Neale Hurston; Play A Blues For Louise / Waring Cuney; Hard Time Blues / Waring Cuney; Song For A Banjo Dance / Langston Hughes; Young Gal's Blues / Langston Hughes; Don't You Want To Be Free? / Langston Hughes; The Creation: A Negro Hermon / James Weldon Johnson; The Autobiography Of An E-coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson; The Black Man Talks Of Reaping / Arna Bontemps; Harvest Song / Jean Toomer; Georgia Dust / Jean Toomer; Plumes: A Folk Tragedy / Georgia Douglas Johnson; Strange Legacies / Sterling A. Brown; Oriflamme / Jessie Fauset; Nat Turner / Randolph Edmonds; Black Thunder / Arna Bontemps; The Steel Drivin' Man / Leon R. Harris; No Images / Waring Cuney; Black Madonna / Albert Rice; To A Nobly-gifted Singer / Leslie Pinckney Hill; A Song Of Praise / Countee Cullen; Ebon Maid And Girl Of Mine / Lucian B.^ Watkins; The Negro Woman / Andrea Razafkeriefo; To My Grandmother / Mae Smith Johnson; The Black Finger / Angelina Grimke; To The Black Beloved / Langston Hughes; Mother To Son; Langston Hughes; Be As Proud Of Your Race / Marcus Garvey; O Black And Unknown Bards / James Weldon Johnson; The Black Mother / W.e.b Dubois; The Song Of The Smoke / W.e.b. Dubois; Strong Men / Sterling A. Brown; These Are My People / Fenton Johnson; Credo / Walter E. Hawkins; The Negro Church / Andrea Razafkeriefo; Courier / Georgia Douglas Johnson; To My Son / Georgia Douglas Johnson; Facts / Raymond G. Dandridge; Time To Die / Raymond G. Dandridge; Baptism / Claude Mckay; If We Must Die / Claude Mckay; For My People / Margaret Walker; Returning Soldiers / W.e.b. Dubois; The New Negro / Alain Locke--^ The Stirrings Of Black Nationalism. The Crisis In Negro Leadership / Harry H. Jones; Race Pride / W.e.b Dubois; First Statement Of Purpose / The Naacp; What Has The Association Done? / The Naacp; Cooperation And Opportunity / Eugene Kinckle Jones; The Marching Song / Philip Randolph; The Truth About The Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters / Philip Randolph; Some Reasons Why Negroes Should Vote The Socialist Ticket / Philip Randolph; You Cannot Kill The Working Class / Angelo Herndon; Manifesto To The League Of Nations / W.e.b. Dubois; To Your Tents, Oh Israel? / W.e.b. Dubois; Segregation / W.e.b. Dubois; What We Believe / Marcus Garvey; Declaration Of Rights Of The Negro Peoples Of The World / Marcus Garvey; What Chance Freedom / Oscar Brown; Registered With Allah / Arna Bontemps And Jack Conroy --^ The Critical Debate. The Negro-art Hokum / George S. Schuyler; The Negro Artist And The Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes; The Negro Genius / Benjamin Brawley; The Negro In Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? / The Crisis Symposium; Criteria Of Negro Art / W.e.b. Dubois; Infants Of The Spring / Wallace Thurman. Edited By Arthur P. Davis And Michael W. Peplow. Bibliography: P. 534-538.