The best short stories by Negro writers ; an anthology from 1899 to the present.

The best short stories by Negro writers ; an anthology from 1899 to the present.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, [1967]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors.
Short stories, American.
Table of Contents:
  • The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt
  • The scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Fern / Jean Toomer
  • Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher
  • The wharf rats / Eric Walrond
  • A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
  • Thank you, ma'am / Langston Hughes
  • The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
  • The revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston
  • Almos' a man / Richard Wright
  • Marihuana and a pistol / Chester B. Himes
  • The beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter
  • The richer, the poorer / Dorothy West
  • The almost white boy / Willard Motley
  • Afternoon into night / Katherine Dunham
  • Flying home / Ralph Ellison
  • Come home early, Chile / Owen Dodson
  • Santa Claus in a white man / John Henrik Clark
  • The stick up / John Oliver Killens
  • Health card / Frank Yerby
  • We're the only colored people here / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • The pocketbook game / Alice Childress
  • The checkerboard / Alston Anderson
  • This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin
  • See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman
  • The blues begins / Sylvester Leaks
  • Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams
  • Singing Dinah's song / Frank London Brown
  • Duel with the clock / Junius Edwards
  • Barbados / Paule Marshall
  • The day the world almost came to an end / Pearl Crayton
  • An interesting social study / Kristin Hunter
  • A new day / Charles Wright
  • Quietus / Charlie Russell
  • Mother to son / Conrad Kent Rivers
  • A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Miss Luhester gives a party / Ronald Fair
  • The death of Tommy Grimes / R. J. Meaddough III
  • Old blues singers never die / Clifford Vincent Johnson
  • The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley
  • Beautiful light and black our dreams / Woodie King, Jr.
  • Red bonnet / Lindsay Patterson
  • The burglar / Lebert Bethune
  • Junkie-Joe had some money / Ronald Milner
  • Direct action / Mike Thelwell
  • The engagement party / Robert Boles
  • To hell with dying / Alice Walker.