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Additional authors

1. Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956
2. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
3. Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979
4. Salaverría, José María, 1873-1940
5. Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1873-1956
6. Wheatley Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784
7. Alexander, Lewis, 1900-1945
8. Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973
9. Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945
10. Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989
11. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
12. Cowdery, Mae V. (Mae Virginia), approximately 1909-1953
13. Cuglar, Lois Augusta
14. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
15. Dabney, Wendell Phillips, 1865-1952
16. Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973
17. Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 1896-1972
18. Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935
19. Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953
20. Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983
21. Fauset, Jessie Redmon
22. Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962
23. Green, Paul, 1894-1981
24. Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958
25. Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963
26. Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 1904-
27. Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947
28. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
29. Horne, Frank
30. Hurston, Zora Neale
31. Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966
32. Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991
33. Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954
34. Lewis, Theophilus, 1891-1974
35. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
36. Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983
37. Morse, George Chester
38. Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961
39. Pickens, William, 1881-1954
40. Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968
41. Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946
42. Root, E. Merrill (Edward Merrill), 1895-1973
43. Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
44. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
45. Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977
46. Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937
47. Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975
48. Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961
49. Young, Nathan B., 1862-1933

Description

1. 164, [2] pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 31 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Literature -- Black authors.
2. African Americans.
3. American literature -- African American authors.

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. Foreword / L. Hollingsworth Wood -- Introduction / Charles S. Johnson -- Jumby, a story / Arthur Huff Fauset -- On the road one day, Lord / Paul Green -- Dusk, a poem / Mae V. Cowdery -- Divine afflatus, a poem / Jessie Fauset -- General drums, a story / John Matheus -- Gullah / Julia Peterkin -- Requiem, a poem / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Foreclosure, a poem / Sterling A. Brown -- Dreamer, a poem / Langston Hughes -- The dunes, a poem / E. Merrill Root -- Eighteenth Street, an anthology in color / Nathan Ben Young -- John Henry, a Negro legend / Guy B. Johnson -- Things said when he was gone, a poem / Blanche Taylor Dickinson -- April is on the way, a poem / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- The first one, a play in one act / Zora Neale Hurston -- This place, a poem / Donald Jeffrey Hayes -- Three poems / Countee Cullen -- New light on an old song / Dorothy Scarborough -- La perla negra / Edna Worthley Underwood -- The Negro of the jazz band / translated from the Spanish of Jose M. Salaverria by Dorothy Peterson -- Idolatry, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- To Clarissa Scott Delany, a poem / Angelina W. Grimke -- Juan Latino, magister Latinus / Arthur A. Schomburg -- And one shall live in two, a poem / Jonathan H. Brooks -- A poem / Phillis Wheatley -- The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The natural history of race prejudice / Ellsworth Faris -- Facsimiles of original manuscripts by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sybil warns her sister, a poem / Anne Spencer -- Some observations on the American race problem / Eugene Kinckle Jones -- Arabesque, a poem / Frank Horne --
2. Phantom color line / T. Arnold Hill -- The changing status of the mulatto / E.B. Reuter -- Suffrage / William Pickens -- Consecration, a poem / Lois Augusta Cuglar -- Undergraduate verse, Fiske University -- Our little renaissance / Alain Locke -- My heart has known its winter, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- Racial self-expression / E. Franklin Frazier -- Our greatest gifts to America / George S. Schuyler -- Effigy, a poem / Lewis Alexander -- The Negro actor's deficit / Theophilus Lewis -- Two poems / Edward S. Silvera -- Duncancon / W.P. Dabney -- Youth, a poem / Frank Horne -- The prospects of a black bourgeoisie / Abram Harris -- To a young poet, a poem / George Chester Morse -- A page of undergraduate verse, Shaw University, Lincoln University, Tougaloo College, Howard University -- Verisimilitude, a story / John P. Davis -- Mrs. Bailey pays the rent / Ira DeA. Reid -- A sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, a poem / Helene Johson -- Tokens, a story / Gwendolyn Bennett -- A page of undergraduate verse, Tougaloo College, Cleveland College of Western Reserve University -- The return, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- I / Brenda Ray Moryck -- A glorious company / Allison Davis -- A student I know, a poem / Jonathan H. Brooks -- And I passed by / Joseph Maree Andrew -- Who's who.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony and topaz)

Language

1. English

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-4780, no. 9.

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has three copies of this book. Copy 2 in Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz) (no accession #) includes a manuscript inscription in black ink by Arthur A. Schomburg. It's a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection that was part of the JBH General Research & Reference collection in Sc+ 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz), transferred to the Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division in Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz) August 25, 2023. The copy in Sc Rare+ F 82-72 ) (no accession #) is also a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection, and contains an inscription from former owner: "To Sallis & Ernst from Gladys and [L/T]yna, Christmas 1927."
2. Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-4780, no. 9.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

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Local subject

1. Black author.

Place of publication

1. United States New York (State) New York.

Added author

1. Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956, editor.
2. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
3. Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979.
4. Salaverría, José María, 1873-1940.
5. Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1873-1956.
6. Wheatley Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784.
7. Alexander, Lewis, 1900-1945. Effigy.
8. Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Idolatry.
9. Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. My heart has known its winter.
10. Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945. And one shall live in two.
11. Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989. Foreclosure.
12. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point.
13. Cowdery, Mae V. (Mae Virginia), approximately 1909-1953. Dusk.
14. Cuglar, Lois Augusta. Consecration.
15. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Song no gentleman would sing to any lady.
16. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Self criticism.
17. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Extenuation to certain critics.
18. Dabney, Wendell Phillips, 1865-1952. Duncanson.
19. Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973. Verisimilitude.
20. Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 1896-1972. Things said when he was gone.
21. Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935. April is on the way.
22. Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953. Natural history of race prejudice.
23. Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Jumby.
24. Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Divine afflatus.
25. Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962. Racial self-expression.
26. Green, Paul, 1894-1981. On the road one day, lord.
27. Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958. To Clarissa Scott Delany.
28. Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963. Prospects of a black bourgeoisie.
29. Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 1904- This place.
30. Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947. Phantom color line.
31. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Dreamer.
32. Horne, Frank. Arabesque.
33. Horne, Frank. Youth.
34. Hurston, Zora Neale. First one.
35. Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966. Requiem.
36. Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991. John Henry, a Negro legend.
37. Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954. Some observations on the American race problem.
38. Lewis, Theophilus, 1891-1974. Negro actor's deficit.
39. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954. Our little renaissance.
40. Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983. General drums.
41. Morse, George Chester. To a young poet.
42. Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961. Gullah.
43. Pickens, William, 1881-1954. Suffrage.
44. Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968. Mrs. Bailey pays the rent.
45. Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946. Changing status of the mulatto.
46. Root, E. Merrill (Edward Merrill), 1895-1973. Dunes.
47. Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935. New light on an old song.
48. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938. Juan Latino, magister Latinus.
49. Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Our greatest gifts to America.
50. Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Unknown soldier.
51. Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Old maid.
52. Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975. Sybil warns her sister.
53. Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961. Perla negra.
54. Young, Nathan B., 1862-1933. Eighteenth street, an anthology in color.
55. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Other form:

1. Online version: Ebony and topaz. New York : Published by Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, ©1927 (OCoLC)1394137125

LCCN

1. 28003956