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Description

1. xix, 355 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. These stories provide an insight into the inner life, thinking and aspirations of Negro Americans.

Alternative title

1. Lynching of Jube Benson.
2. Goophered grapevine.
3. City of refuge.
4. Overcoat.
5. Summer tragedy.
6. Gilded six-bits.
7. Boy who painted Christ black.
8. Homecoming.
9. Senegalese.
10. Matter of time.
11. Convert.
12. Winds of change.
13. Screamers.
14. Sky is gray.

Subject

1. Black author
2. Fiction
3. American fiction > African American authors
4. Short stories, American
5. African Americans > Fiction
6. Short stories

Genre/Form

1. Short stories.
2. Fiction.

Contents

1. The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The overcoat / John P. Davis -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- One Friday morning / Langston Hughes -- So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord -- And/or / Sterling Brown -- Fighter / John Caswell Smith -- The homecoming / Frank Yerby -- How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Exodus / James Baldwin -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray -- The Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller -- A matter of time / Frank London Brown -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines.

Call number

1. Sc D 21-853

Author

1. Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998.

Title

1. American Negro short stories.

Imprint

1. New York, Hill and Wang [1966]

Edition

1. [1st ed.].

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Author's autographed copy.
2. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added title

1. Lynching of Jube Benson.
2. Goophered grapevine.
3. City of refuge.
4. Overcoat.
5. Summer tragedy.
6. Gilded six-bits.
7. Boy who painted Christ black.
8. Homecoming.
9. Senegalese.
10. Matter of time.
11. Convert.
12. Winds of change.
13. Screamers.
14. Sky is gray.

LCCN

1. 66023863

ISBN

1. 0809025302
2. 9780809025305

Research call number

1. Sc D 21-853
2. Sc 808.83-C (Clarke, J. American Negro short stories)
3. D-17 5293