Readings from Negro authors : for schools and colleges, with a bibliography of Negro literature / by Otelia Cromwell Professor of English, Miner Teachers College, Lorenzo Dow Turner Professor of English, Fisk University, Eva B. Dykes Associate Professor of English Howard University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cromwell, Otelia, 1874-1972, editor.

Turner, Lorenzo Dow, editor.

Dykes, Eva Beatrice, 1893-1986, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--Bibliography.

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xii, 388 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1931]

Contents:

Poetry: Introduction; Phillis Wheatley; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Countée Cullen; Langston Hughes; Claude McKay; Angelina Weld Grimké; Georgia Douglas Johnson; Anna Bontemps; William Stanley Braithwaite; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Leslie Pinckney Hill; James Weldon Johnson; Jessie Fauset; Kelly Miller; Sterling A. Brown; Otto Leland Bohanan; Clarissa Scott Delany; Benjamin Brawley; Lewis Alexander; Esther Popel; Helene Johnson; Waring Cuney; Ethel Caution; George Marion McClellan; Gertrude Parthenia McBrown

Stories: Introduction; Charles W. Chesnutt; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Rudolph Fisher; John F. Matheus; Zora Neale Hurston; Florence Marion Harmon; Caroline Bond Day

One Act Plays: Introduction; Willis Richardson; John F. Matheus

Essays: Introduction; William Wells Brown; W. E. Burghardt DuBois; Kelly Miller; Alain Locke; William Stanley Braithwaite; Jessie Fauset; Benjamin Griffith Brawley; William Pickens; Sterling A. Brown; Clarissa Scott Delany

Public Addresses: introduction; William G. Allen; Frederick Douglass; Alexander Crummell; W. E. Burghardt DuBois; Booker T. Washington; W. S. Scarborough; Carter G. Woodson; Allison Davis.

Notes:

"The purpose of this volume is not to present another anthology of Negro literature, but to offer for classroom study or supplementary reading a selection of types of writings by Negro authors."--Preface.

"A bibliography of Negro literature": pages 371-383; contains "Collateral reading."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has stamps and marking of District of Columbia Teachers College Library.

OCLC:

1485583