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Christmas gif'; an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about Negroes. / Compiled by Charlemae Rollins. Line drawings by Tom O'Sullivan. Book design by Stan Williamson.
LIBRA PS509.C56 R6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rollins, Charlemae Hill, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas--Literary collections.
- Christmas.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- Christmas poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Christmas gift
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Follett Publishing Company. [1963]
- Contents:
- The institution of Christmas gift / Harnett T. Kane
- Nativity / Aquah Laluah
- Memories of Christmas / Langston Hughes
- How come Christmas / Roark Bradford
- A plantation Christmas / Julia Peterkin
- Christmas gift / Zora Neale Hurston
- The legend of the Black Madonna / Margaret T. Applegarth
- Goat comes to the Christmas party / Eva Knox Evans
- New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass
- Anxious days and sleepless nights / Booker T. Washington
- Christmas is a-comin' / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Speakin' o' Christmas / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Christmas Carol / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A little Christmas basket / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Through the holly wreath / Effie Lee Newsome
- The Magi call him king (A Christmas Song) / Effie Lee Newsome
- Kid stuff / Frank Horne
- On a pallet of straw / Langston Hughes
- Carol of the brown king / Langston Hughes
- The peppermint candy march / Effie Lee Newsome
- Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes
- The Christmas story / Langston Hughes
- On a Christmas night / Langston Hughes
- An anonymous verse (from a Puerto Rican Christmas card) / translated by Langston Hughes
- Every man heart lay down / Lorenz Graham
- The stable / Gabriela Mistral translated by Langston Hughes
- Indian Christmas / Gabriela Mistral translated by Langston Hughes
- Go tell it on the mountain / Negro spiritual
- Wasn't that a mighty day / Negro spiritual
- The Virgin Mary had a baby boy / Negro spiritual
- What you gonna name that pretty little baby? / Negro spiritual
- Rise up, Shepherd and follow / Negro spiritual
- God's Christmas tree / Eve Lynn
- Black Madonna / Albert Rice
- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen
- Otto / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Christmas Recipes from the "Big House" and the Cabin.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "Tenth Printing" and in subtitle substitutes "written by and about Black People" for "written by and about Negro People".
- Banks Collection copy has piece of red and gold paper laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0695811908 trade binding
- OCLC:
- 306089
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