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Simple stakes a claim / by Langston Hughes.
LIBRA - Rare PS3515.U273 S54 1957 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--New York (State)--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Simple (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Simple (Fictitious character).
- Race relations.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- United States--Race relations--Fiction.
- United States.
- New York (State).
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc. ; Toronto : Clarke, Irvine, & Company, Ltd., [1957]
- Contents:
- Foreword: let's laugh a little
- Simple's platform
- Bang-up big end
- Big round world
- Duty is not snooty
- Great but late
- Bones, bombs, chicken neck
- A dog named Trilby
- Enter Cousin Minnie
- Radioactive redcaps
- Face and race
- Two sides not enough
- Great day
- With all deliberate speed
- Puerto Ricans
- Depression in the cards
- The atomic age
- Minnie again
- Sketch for TV
- Sex in front
- Out-loud silent
- Color on the brain
- New kind of dozens
- Vicious circle
- Jim Crow's funeral
- Again cousin Minnie
- Cellophane bandannas
- Negroes and vacations
- Only human
- Name in print
- Golfing and golfing
- Reason and right
- Mississippi fists
- Minnie one more time
- Simple stashes back
- An auto-obituary
- Four-way celebrations
- Be broad-minded, please!
- Grammar and goodness
- Chips on the shoulder
- Jazz, jive and jam.
- Notes:
- "Jacket design by Ben Feder, Inc."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has handwritten note "Please return to Helen L. Harris, 715 Park Ave., NYC, NY".
- Cited in:
- Dickinson, D.C. Bio-bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 (Second edition, revised), entry 32
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Simple stakes a claim.
- OCLC:
- 978908
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