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The history of Negro humor in America.
- Text
- New York, Fleet Press Corp. [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC 71-430 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Encyclopedia of Black folklore and humor, compiled and edited by Henry D. Spalding. Introd. by J. Mason Brewer. Illustrated by Rue Knapp.
- Text
- Middle Village, N.Y., Jonathan David Publishers [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-S (Spalding, H. Encyclopedia of Black folklore and humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
American Aesop : Negro and other humor.
- Text
- New York : AMS Press, [1969]
- 1969-1926
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817-P (Pickens, W. American Aesop. 1969) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The black cat club; Negro humor & folk-lore. Illustrated by J. K. Bryans. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1902.
- Text
- [New York, AMS Press, 1972]
- 1972-1902
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 73-4086 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Laugh and let laugh; way down in Dixie. Three hundred funny Negro stories, by Grandma.
- Text
- Talladega, Ala. [1942?]
- 1942
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-S (Styer, H. Laugh and let laugh) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jokes from Black folks, by Jim Haskins.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 74-925 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Jokes from Black folks, by Jim Haskins.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-H (Haskins, J. Jokes from Black folks) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The last laugh : the world of the stand-up comics / by Phil Berger.
- Text
- New York : Morrow, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791-B (Berger, P. Last laugh) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Afrika lacht; sinnliche, freche und witzige Geschichten, Pointen und Songs aus Afrika, Westindien und Nordamerika, hrsg. und übers. von Janheinz Jahn.
- Text
- [Frankfurt am Main] Bärmeier und Nikel [1968]
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 808.87-J (Jahn, J. Afrika lacht) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bootsie and others; a selection of cartoons by Ollie Harrington. Introduction by Langston Hughes.
- Text
- New York, Dodd. Mead [c1958]
- 1958
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MEM (Harrington) 76-1422 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 741.5-H (Harrington, O. Bootsie and others) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black mail; an original Negro comicality.
- Text
- London, New York, French [18--]
- 1800-1899
The official white folks/black folks joke book.
- Text
- New York, Pinnacle Books [1975]
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 78-193 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
New world a-coming. 07. April 16, 1944. (Radio program) (Audiotape).
- Audio
- New York, WMCA, 1944.
- 1944
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio C-296[Side 1, no. 1] Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
New world a-coming. 42. April 8, 1945. (Radio program) (Audiotape).
- Audio
- New York, WMCA, 1945.
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio C-313 [Side 2, no. 1] Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
It's true! it's true! [Sound recording]
- Audio
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records WS 1770. [1969]
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LSRX 6869 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor / Redd Foxx [i.e. J.E. Sanford] and Norma Miller.
- Text
- Pasadena, Calif. : W. Ritchie Press, [1977]
- 1977
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *792.2-F (Foxx, R. Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 17-1638 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
New world a-coming. 42. (Radio program) (Audiotape).
- Audio
- New York, WMCA, 1945.
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio C-313 [Side 2, no. 1] Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The wit and wisdom of Fat Albert, by Bill Cosby. Illus. by Filmation.
- Text
- New York, Windmill Books [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 89-26 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The black cat club : Negro humor & folk-lore / by James D. Corrothers ; illustrated by J. K. Bryans.
- Text
- New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1902.
- 1902
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101074760685Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Corrothers, J. Black cat club) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Color us cullud : The American Negro leadership official coloring book / written and illustrated by Cecil Elombe Brath [pseud.]
- Text
- Harlem, N.Y. : Black Standard Pub. Co., [1964] c1963.
- 1964-1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 77-221 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Coontown's 400, by E. W. Kemble.
- Text
- New York, Life Publishing Company, 1899.
- 1899
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 741.5-K (Kemble, E. Coontown's 400) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The history of Negro humor in America.
- Text
- New York, Fleet Press Corp. [c1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.009-S (Schechter, W. History of Negro humor in America) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The best Negro jokes / Selected by Clement Wood.
- Text
- Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1926.
- 1926
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-W (Wood, C. Best Negro jokes) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oddities in southern life and character; edited by Henry Watterson; with illustrations by W. L. Sheppard and F. S. Church.
- Text
- Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company [c1882]
- 1882
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-W (Watterson, H. Oddities in southern life) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Charley White's new book of black wit and darky conversations, being the second series of the kind ever published and containing a large collection of laughable anecdotes, jokes, stories, witticisms, plantation and dandy darkey converstions, &c., &c., as given by this great comedian at White's opera house, New York, compiled and arranged by Charles White and published by his authority.
- Text
- New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1856]
- 1856
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's new book of black wit) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dixie darkies; Negro stories, mule tales, race relationships, by William F. Roberts.
- Text
- Boston, B. Humphries, Inc. [1942]
- 1942
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC (Roberts, W. F. Dixie darkies) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-R (Roberts, W. Dixie darkies) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
"Cullud" fun; a compilation of the best Negro stories at which the people of the South have laughed in the past generation, including a group of the best loved soldier stories of the world war, by Jack Dionne.
- Text
- [Houston, Texas, Printed by The Rein Company, c1932]
- 1932
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-D (Dionne, J. "Cullud" fun) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Minstrel gags and end men's hand-book : being a collection of Ethiopian dialogues, plantation scenes, eccentric doings, humorous lectures, laughable interludes, end men's jokes, burlesque speeches, witticisms, conundrums, yarns, plantation songs and dances, etc.
- Text
- Upper Saddle River, N. J. Literature House, [1969, c1875]
- 1969-1875
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791.12-R (Roorbach, O. Minstrel gags) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Charley White's Ethiopian joke book, being a perfect casket of fun! ... Containing a full exposé of all the most laughable jokes, stories,witticisms, &c., &c., as told by this great Ethiopian comedian at White'sopera house, New York.
- Text
- New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1855]
- 1855
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's Ethiopian joke book) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
End-men's gags, by J. Melville Janson.
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- Philadelphia, D. Mckay [c1900]
- 1900
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791.1-J (Janson, J. End-men's gags) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wit and humor, by Uncle Sambo [pseud.]
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- Edwards, Miss., New Light Steam Print, 1911.
- 1911
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 811-B (Butler, S. Wit and humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Here come the judge! by "Pigmeat" Markham with Bill Levinson. Editor: Hester Mundis. Art editor: Robert Prestopino. Assistant art editor: James Montalbano. Cartoons: Richard Hodgens.
- Text
- New York, Popular Library [c1969]
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817-M (Markham, A. Here come the judge!) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
What's happening? Photographs by Jerry Yulsman.
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- New York, Dutton, [c1965]
- 1965
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817-G (Gregory, D. What's happening?) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-16 5722 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The book of Negro humor, selected and edited by Langston Hughes.
- Text
- New York, Dodd, Mead [c1966]
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-H (Hughes, L. Book of Negro humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Our darktown press, by Inez Lopez Cohen (Mrs. Octavus Roy Cohen) foreword by Octavus Roy Cohen; decorations by Margaret Freeman.
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- New York, D. Appleton and Company, [c1932]
- 1932
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-NBX (Cohen, I. L. Our darktown press) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-C (Cohen, I. Our darktown press) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Senegambian sizzles; Negro stories by E. V. White ... illustrated by Leta Mae Calhoun.
- Text
- Dallas, B. Upshaw and Company [1945]
- 1945
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBX (White, E. V. Senegambian sizzles) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-W (White, E. Senegambian sizzles) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Laughing on the outside; the intelligent white reader's guide to Negro tales and humor. Collected and edited by Philip Sterling. Introductory essay by Saunders Redding. Cartoons by Ollie Harrington.
- Text
- New York, Grosset & Dunlap [c1965]
- 1965
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-16 8419 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-S (Sterling, P. Laughing on the outside) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Chocolate drops from the South, a book of Negro humor and philosophy by E. V. White.
- Text
- Austin, The E. L. Steck Company [c1932]
- 1932
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBX (White, E. V. Chocolate drops from the South) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-W (White, E. Chocolate drops from the South) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The best of Negro humor. Edited by John H. Johnson and Ben Burns. With an introduction by Langston Hughes. Illustrated by Jay Jackson.
- Text
- [Chicago? Negro Digest, c1945]
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 817.08-J (Johnson, J. Best of Negro humor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Brudder Gardner's stump speeches and comic lectures : containing some of the best hits of the leading negro delineators of the present day / compiled by T. J. Carey.
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- New York : Excelsior Publishing House, c1884.
- 1884
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NANV (Carey, T. J. Brudder Gardner's stump speeches) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791.1-C (Carey, T. Brudder Gardner's stump speeches) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Darktown jokes ... coon jokes and stories [microform] / by Lew Dockstader, McIntyre and Heath, and others.
- Text
- Chicago : Donohue, [19--]
- 1900-1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3639 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
On the real side : laughing, lying, and signifying : the underground tradition of African-American humor that transformed American culture, from slavery to Richard Pryor / Mel Watkins.
- Text
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.
- 1994
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 94-5260 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-121 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bert Williams jokebooks, n.d.
- Mixed material
- 1899-1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 190 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
You so crazy / by Martin Lawrence.
- Text
- New York : Miramax/Hyperion, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 94-926 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black misery / Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Arouni ; introduction by Jesse Jackson ; afterword by Robert G. Omealley.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 94-254 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jump at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston's cosmic comedy / John Lowe.
- Text
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-131 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black Jewish humor and reflections : an original work / by Akiva ben Avraham.
- Text
- [Los Angeles : R. Poindexter, c1978]
- 1978
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX H-79 Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-1993 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Snaps / James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, and Stephan Dweck ; foreword by Quincy Jones.
- Text
- New York : Morrow, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 95-200 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The humor of Jackie Moms Mabley : an African American comedic tradition / Elsie A. Williams.
- Text
- New York : Garland Pub., 1995.
- 1995
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES (Mabley, M.) 95-15066 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1420 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Yo' mama! : bust-o-pedia / Snap C. Pop and Kid Rank.
- Text
- New York : Berkley Books, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B 95-18 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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