| Description |
xix, 355 p. ; 21 cm. |
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American century series
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| Note |
Includes biographical notes (p. 349-355). |
| Contents |
The Lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- On being crazy / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The City of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The Overcoat / John P. Davis -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A Summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The Gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The Boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- On Friday morning / Langston Hughes -- So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord -- And/or / Sterling Brown -- Fighter / John Caswell Smith -- The Homecoming / Frank Yerby -- How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Exodus / James Baldwin -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- The Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller -- A Matter of time / Frank London Brown -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- The Convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The Winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The Screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- The Sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- African American authors.
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| Added Author |
Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998.
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