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

Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, ed.

Edition Statement:[1st ed.]

Imprint:Boston : Little, Brown, [1967]

Descriptionxvii, 508 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: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 is a white man / John Henrik Clarke. - 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. - Singin Dinah's song / Frank London Brown. - Duel with the clock / Junius Edwards. - Barbados / Paula Marshall. - The day the world almost came to an end / Paul Crayton. - An interesting social study / Kristin Hunter. - A new day / Dharles 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 bonnett / Lindsay Patterson. - The burglar / Lebert Bethune. - Junkie-Joe had some money / Ronald Milner. - Direct action / Mike Thelwel. - The engagement party / Robert Boles. - To hell with dying / Alice Walker.

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