The Best short stories by Black writers

the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967

The Best short stories by Black writers
Langston Hughes, Langston Hugh...
The Best short stories by Black writers by Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes
Nearby Libraries

Only you can see this

Save Note
Last edited by MARC Bot
December 29, 2022 | History

The Best short stories by Black writers

the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967

This work doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
508

Book Details


Table of Contents

The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt
The scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Fern / Jean Toomer
Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher
The warf rats / Eric Walrond
A summer tragedy / Arna Bontempts
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. Hines
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 Dobson
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 / Junis 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 / Linsey 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.

Edition Notes

Previously published as: The Best short stories by Negro writers.

Published in
Boston
Copyright Date
1967

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9
Library of Congress
PS647.N35 B4 1967

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 508 pages
Number of pages
508

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL45087316M
OCLC/WorldCat
18910733

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL33201221W

Source records

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON