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Best short stories by Afro-American writers, 1925-1950 / selected and edited by Nick Aaron Ford and H. L. Faggett.
LIBRA PS647.N35 B45 1950
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American authors.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Meador Publishing Company, 1950.
- Contents:
- Part I Of Human Relations. No Room in the Inn / Nick Aaron Ford ; Let the Church Roll On / Nick Aaron Ford ; One Way to Victory / Nick Aaron Ford ; Cross Buns for Friday / Ruth Johnson ; The Award / Albert Monn ; The Shepherd / Mark Hyman ; The Red Hat / Martha Brown ; Over the Line / C. Leigh Stevenson ; Soft Boiled / Ollie Stewart ; I Shall Not be Moved / Ollie Stewart ; If We Could See / Howard Meschi ; She Never Knew? / Simeon Booker, Jr. ; Mulatto Flair / Gilmore Spencer
- Part II Of Crime and Punishment. Special Assignment / Thomas C. Patterson ; The Ebony Elephant / Edward Lawson ; The Majesty of the Law / Nick Aaron Ford ; Chatter-Stick Sermon / H. L. Faggett
- Part III Of Loyalty and Patriotism. Symbol of Courage / Roland T. Hamilton ; Our Country / Albert Monn ; Fighting Finish / March Lacy ; A Captive Returns / James H. Hill.
- Part IV Of Love and Romance. Greater Love / Harry Winston ; No Greater Love / Ollie Stewart ; Leg Man / Ollie Stewart ; The Right Thing / Ed Lacy ; All that Glitters / Arthur Propes; Common Meter / Rudolph Fisher ; Goldfish Bowl / H. L. Faggett
- Part V Of Sunshine and Shadow. Amateur Night in Harlem / Gene Davis ; Pa Sees Again / Edwina S. Dixon ; End of a Dream / Ollie Stewart ; Life Begins at Forty / Harry Winston ; Beauty and the Diamond Ring / John P. Moore ; Foggy / Douglass Hall ; A Gust of Wind / James H. Hill ; Comfort and Joy / James H. Hill ; No Fools, No Fun / March Lacy ; The Killer / Frank Coggins ; Cupid Wags His Tail / H. L. Faggett ; Fisherman's Luck / Ralph Matthews.
- Notes:
- "Stories published in the Afro-American between 1925 and 1950"--Introduction.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 6188762
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