Ebony and topaz : a collectanea / edited by Charles S. Johnson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956, editor.
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
• Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979.
• Salaverría, José María, 1873-1940.
• Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1873-1956.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American literature--African American authors.
• Literature--Black authors.
• African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

• Fauset, Arthur Huff, Estate of (donor)

Physical Description:

164 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, [1927]

Contents:

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

Contains:

• Alexander, Lewis, 1900-1945. Effigy.
• Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Idolatry.
• Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. My heart has known its winter.
• Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945. And one shall live in two.
• Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989. Foreclosure.
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point.
• Cowdery, Mae V. (Mae Virginia), approximately 1909-1953. Dusk.
• Cuglar, Lois Augusta. Consecration.
• Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Song no gentleman would sing to any lady.
• Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Self criticism.
• Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Extenuation to certain critics.
• Dabney, Wendell Phillips, 1865-1952. Duncanson.
• Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973. Verisimilitude.
• Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 1896-1972. Things said when he was gone.
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935. April is on the way.
• Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953. Natural history of race prejudice.
• Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Jumby.
• Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Divine afflatus.
• Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962. Racial self-expression.
• Green, Paul, 1894-1981. On the road one day, lord.
• Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958. To Clarissa Scott Delany.
• Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963. Prospects of a black bourgeoisie.
• Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 1904- This place.
• Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947. Phantom color line.
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Dreamer.
• Horne, Frank. Arabesque.
• Horne, Frank. Youth.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. First one.
• Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966. Requiem.
• Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991. John Henry, a Negro legend.
• Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954. Some observations on the American race problem.
• Lewis, Theophilus, 1891-1974. Negro actor's deficit.
• Locke, Alain, 1885-1954. Our little renaissance.
• Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983. General drums.
• Morse, George Chester. To a young poet.
• Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961. Gullah.
• Pickens, William, 1881-1954. Suffrage.
• Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968. Mrs. Bailey pays the rent.
• Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946. Changing status of the mulatto.
• Root, E. Merrill (Edward Merrill), 1895-1973. Dunes.
• Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935. New light on an old song.
• Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938. Juan Latino, magister Latinus.
• Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Our greatest gifts to America.
• Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Unknown soldier.
• Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Old maid.
• Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975. Sybil warns her sister.
• Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961. Perla negra.
• Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. To a gentleman on his voyage to Great Britain for the recovery of his health.
• Young, Nathan B., 1862-1933. Eighteenth street, an anthology in color.

OCLC:

1177914