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

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

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. 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 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 -- -- 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.

Presents a comprehensive anthology of short stories written by African-American writers between 1899 and 1967. Includes stories by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willard Motley, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, and forty others.