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Author Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967., author

Title The best short stories by Negro writers; an anthology from 1899 to the present.

Publication Info. Boston, Little, Brown [1967]

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  810.80896 HUG    Missing
Edition [1st ed.]
Description xvii, 508 pages 22 cm.
Contents Mother to son / by Conrad Kent Rivers --A long day in November / by Ernest J. Gaines -- Miss Luhester gives a party / by Ronald Fair -- The death of Tommy Grimes / by R.J. Meaddough III --Old blues singers never die / by Clifford Vincent Johnson -- The only man on Liberty Street / by William Melvin Kelley -- Beautiful light and black our dreams / by Woodie King, Jr. -- Red bonnet / by Lindsay Patterson -- The burglar / by Lebert Bethune -- Junkie-Joe had some money / by Ronald Milner -- Direct action / by Mike Thelwell -- The engagement party / by Robert Boles -- To hell with dying / by Alice Walker -- Biographical notes.
Santa Claus is a white man / by John Henrik Clarke -- The stick up / by John Oliver Killens -- Health card / by Frank Yerby -- We're the only colored people here / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- The pocketbook game / by Alice Childress -- The checkerboard / by Alston Anderson -- This morning, this evening, so soon / by James Baldwin -- See how they run / by Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- The blues begins / by Sylvester Leaks -- Son in the afternoon / by John A. Williams -- Singing Dinah's song / by Frank London Brown -- Duel with the clock / by Junius Edwards -- Barbados / by Paule Marshall -- The day the world almost came to an end / by Pearl Crayton -- An interesting social study / by Kristin Hunter -- A new day / by Charles Wright -- Quietus / by Charlie Russell.
Editor's note -- Introduction -- The sheriff's children / by Charles W. Chesnutt -- The scapegoat / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Fern / by Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / by Rudolph Fisher -- The whard rats / by Eric Walrond -- A summer tragedy / by Arna Bontemps -- Thank you, M'am / by Langston Hughes -- The gilded six-bits / by Nora Neale Hurston -- The revolt of the evil fairies / by Ted Poston -- Almos' a man / by Richard Wright -- Marihuana and a pistol / by Chester B. Himes -- The beach umbrella / by Cyrus Colter -- The richer, the poorer / by Dorothy West -- The almost white boy / by Willard Motley -- Afternoon into night / by Katherine Dunham -- Flying home / by Ralph Ellison -- Come home early, Chile / by Owen Dodson.
Subject African Americans -- Fiction.
Short stories, American -- African American authors.
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