The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 /

The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 / edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes. - xvii, 508 pages ; 20 cm - Fiction/Black Studies . - Fiction/Black Studies. .

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

The sheriff's children / The scapegoat / Fern / Miss Cynthie / The wharf rats / A summer tragedy / Thank you, M'am / The gilded six-bits / The revolt of the evil fairies / Almos' a man / Marihuana and a pistol / The beach umbrella / The richer, the poorer / The almost white boy / Afternoon into night / Flying home / Come home early, chile / Santa Claus is a white man / The stick up / Health card / We're the only colored people here / The pocketbook game / The checkerboard / This morning, this evening, so soon / See how they run / The blues begins / Son in the afternoon / Singing Dinah's song / Duel with the clock / Barbados / The day the world almost came to an end / An interesting social study / A new day / Quietus / Mother to son / A long day in November / Miss Luhester gives a party / The death of Tommy Grimes / Old blues singers never die / The only man on Liberty Street / Beautiful light and black our dreams / Red bonnet / The burglar / Junkie-Joe had some money / Direct action / The engagement party / To hell with dying / Charles W. Chesnutt -- -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- -- Jean Toomer -- -- Rudolph Fisher -- -- Eric Walrond -- -- Arna Bontemps -- -- Langston Hughes -- -- Zora Neale Hurston -- -- Ted Poston -- -- Richard Wright -- -- Chester B. Hines -- -- Cyrus Colter -- -- Dorothy West -- -- Willard Motley -- -- Katherine Dunham -- -- Ralph Ellison -- -- Owen Dodson -- -- John Henrik Clarke -- -- John Oliver Killens -- -- Frank Yerby -- -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- -- Alice Childress -- -- Alston Anderson -- -- James Baldwin -- -- Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- -- Sylvester Leaks -- -- John A. Williams -- -- Frank London Brown -- -- Junius Edwards -- -- Paule Marshall -- -- Pearl Crayton -- -- Kristin Hunter -- -- Charles Wright -- -- Charlie Russell -- -- Conrad Kent Rivers -- -- Ernest J. Gaines -- -- Ronald Fair -- -- R.J. Meaddough III -- -- Clifford Vincent Johnson -- -- William Melvin Kelley -- -- Woodie King, Jr. -- -- Lindsay Patterson -- -- Lebert Bethune -- -- Ronald Milner -- -- Mike Thelwell -- -- Robert Boles -- -- 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.




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African Americans--Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
Short stories--African American authors.


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PS647.H844.B478 1967