Research Catalog

Title

The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 / edited with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1967.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Description

xvii, 508 p.; 21 cm.

Subjects

• African Americans > Literary collections
• Short stories, American > African American authors
• American fiction > African American authors

Note

• Previously published as: The Best short stories by Negro writers.
• "Back Bay books."

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, m'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 begin / 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.

Call Number

Sc D 97-761

OCLC

18910733

Title

The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 / edited with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

Imprint

Boston : Little, Brown, c1967.

Added Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Best short stories by Negro writers.

LCCN

67011221

Research Call Number

Sc D 97-761