Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950 /

Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950 / edited by Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.

In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers - some famous, many just discovered - give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory un...

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Other Authors: Roses, Lorraine Elena, 1943- (Editor), Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
African American women > Literary collections.
African Americans > Literary collections.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
Table of Contents:
  • Black and white tangled threads. Sanctuary / Nella Larsen
  • Two gentlemen of Boston / Florida Ruffin Ridley
  • Little heads : a one-act play of Negro life / Alvira Hazzard
  • My two grandmothers / Aloise Barbour Epperson
  • Flower of the south / Gertrude Schalk
  • Masks, a story / Eloise Bibb Thompson
  • The man who passed : a play in one act / Regina M. Andrews
  • Why, how, when and where black becomes white / Mary Church Terrell
  • from Black and white tangled threads / Zara Wright.
  • Dreaming in color. Belated romance / Florence Marion Harmon
  • The pink hat / Caroline Bond Day
  • Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Lai-li / Mae V. Cowdery
  • Little Cornish, the "blue boy" / Effie Lee Newsome
  • The noose / Octavia B. Wynbush
  • If wishes were horses ; Subversion / Edythe Mae Gordon.
  • Native daughter. To a wild rose / Ottie B. Graham
  • The Zulu King : New Orleans (at Mardi Gras) ; Negro folk songs / Josephine Copeland
  • Preface : other Bostonians / Florida Ruffin Ridley
  • Nativity ; A poem ; The palm wine seller ; Rainy season love song / Gladys Casely Hayford
  • Is it not enough ; Negroid things ; Are we different? / Ida Rowland
  • The family of Nat Turner, 1831-1954 / Lucy Mae Turner
  • Where the west begins, from American daughter / Era Bell Thompson
  • from The Negro trailblazers of California / Delilah Leontium Beasley
  • Native daughter : an indictment of white America by a colored woman / Ellen Tarry.
  • Longings. Calling dreams ; Question ; My son ; Armageddon ; Interim ; Ivy ; I wonder ; Afterglow / Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • Love's way : a Christmas story / Carrie W. Clifford
  • Joy ; The mask ; Interim ; Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany
  • Noblesse oblige ; Dead fires ; Oblivion ; La vie c'est la vie ; Words! Words! / Jessie Fauset
  • The eternal quest / Anita Scott Coleman
  • In '61 ; Longing ; Sunset ; Long remembering / Ethel Caution Davis
  • Longings / Nellie R. Bright.
  • Spunk. Early days in Cleveland, from A nickel and a prayer / Jane Edna Hunter
  • The Negro today / Marion Vera Cuthbert
  • A talk on evolution / Mercedes Gilbert
  • The Equal Rights League, from Crusade for Justice / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • To the oppressors ; Mr. Roosevelt regrets / Pauli Murray
  • from Tales my father told and other stories / Hallie Quinn Brown
  • Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston.
  • My great, wide, beautiful world. Black / Nellie R. Bright
  • from African journey / Eslanda Goode Robeson
  • Wedding day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  • Letters / Idabelle Yeiser
  • Twenty-seventh day, from Journey to Accompong / Katherine Dunham
  • Why / Brenda Ray Moryck
  • from My great, wide, beautiful world / Juanita V. Harrison.
  • Harlem's glory : a woman's view. The corner / Eunice Hunton Carter
  • The double task : the struggle of Negro women for sex and race emancipation / Elise Johnson McDougald
  • Story in Harlem slang : Jelly's tale / Zora Neale Hurston
  • from "The ebony flute" / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  • My race ; Metamorphism ; Bottled / Helene Johnson
  • Tar / Shirley Graham
  • Solo on the drums / Ann Petry
  • Part of the pack : another view of night life in Harlem / Hazel V. Campbell.
  • In the looking glass. Memory of a "Jim Crow" car ; My temple ; To one who would be great ; His life and mine / Ariel Williams Holloway
  • Problems facing Negro young women / Marion Vera Cuthbert
  • Mammy / Dorothy West
  • 'Bidin' place / May Miller
  • Since 1619 ; Lineage ; People of unrest ; We have been believers / Margaret Walker
  • Black death / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Letter to my sister ; At the carnival ; Lady, lady ; Black man 'o mine ; White things ; The wife-woman / Anne Spencer
  • Freedom ; A Negro in a dime store ; Heard on an Atlantic City bridge / Aloise Barbour Epperson.
  • Crisis. One true love ; And I passed by / Marita Bonner
  • The women of the white strain / Elise Johnson McDougald
  • The handicapped / Angelina Weld Grimké
  • Flag salute ; Blasphemy--American style ; October prayer / Esther Popel
  • Mob madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert
  • Slackened caprice / Ottie B. Graham
  • He must think it out / Florida Ruffin Ridley.
  • The offering. One blue star / May Miller
  • The five dollar bill / Dorothy West
  • The tie that used to bind : a mid-Victorian Negro marriage / Anna J. Cooper
  • The return of a modern prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush
  • A blossom in an alley ; The torch bearer ; The offering / Sarah Collins Fernandis.

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