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The Crisis reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine
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Introduction / Editing The crisis / To usward / Hope ; Dirge / Scintilla / The freedom of the free / After the storm / The road to the bow / Shakespeare's sonnet / Dad ; Bread and wine ; Sonnet to her / Gospel for those who must / Again it is September ; Rencontre ; Courage! he said / The teacher ; Vision of a lyncher / Letters found near a suicide ; Harlem / The Negro speaks of rivers ; The south ; Being old / Negro soldiers / Old things ; True wealth / My love / Prejudice ; Motherhood ; Decay ; Courier / Father, Father Abraham ; Brothers ; Helene ; The river ; Moods ; A passing melody / The international spirit / Sonnet ; The proletariat speaks / Exodus ; Bluebird ; The little page / Dunbar ; White things / Song of the son ; Banking coal / The servant / Emmy / A man they didn't know / The doll ; Mr. Taylor's funeral ; The marked tree / A tale of the North Carolina woods / High yaller / The death game / Unfinished masterpieces / Nothing new ; Drab rambles / The man who wanted to be red / On the fields of France / The broken banjo / Exit, an illusion / Twilight, an impression / All God's chillun got eyes / On being young, a woman, and colored ; The young blood hungers / College / Countee Cullen to his friends / An autobiography / New literature on the Negro ; The symbolism of Bert Williams / Plácido ; Negro authors and white publishers / Steps toward the Negro theatre / The National Association of Negro Musicians / Soviet Russia and the Negro / The younger literary movement / Antar, Negro poet of Arabia / The Negro in literature / Criteria of Negro art / Our Negro "Intellectuals" / A musical invasion of Europe / Negro authors' week, an experiment / The work of a mob / Documents of the war ; Marcus Garvey / The faith of the American Negro / Coöperation and the Negro / John Brown Day / Temperament / Three achievements and their significance / The present South / Africa--our challenge
Wilson, Sondra K.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Sondra Kathryn Wilson -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Arna Bontemps -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Benjamin Griffith Brawley -- Sterling Brown -- James D. Corrothers -- Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. -- Countee Cullen -- Allison Davis -- Jessie Fauset -- Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Frank Horne -- Langston Hughes -- Roscoe C. Jamison -- Charles Bertram Johnson -- Fenton Johnson -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Effie Lee Newsome -- Anne Spencer -- Jean Toomer -- Fenton Johnson -- Jessie Fauset -- James D. Corrothers -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Arthur Huff Fauset -- Rudolph Fisher -- Edwin Drummond Sheen -- Anita Scott Coleman -- Marita O. Bonner -- Frank Horne -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Willis Richardson -- Marita O. Bonner -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- E. Franklin Frazier -- Marita O. Bonner -- Loren R. Miller -- Countee Cullen -- Augusta Savage -- Jessie Fauset -- James Weldon Johnson -- Alain Locke -- Carl Diton -- Claude McKay -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke -- Maud Cuney Hare -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Allison Davis -- R. Nathaniel Dett -- C. Ruth Wright -- Walter White -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -- E. Franklin Frazier -- William Pickens -- Horace Mann Bond -- James Weldon Johnson -- Robert W. Bagnall -- Susie Wiseman Yergan.
Sondra Kathryn Wilson, editor.
1999
The Crisis reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine
1996.
An anthology of the works of 120 black writers, spanning two centuries, beginning with Lucy Terry's poem, Bars Fight. The anthology features poem
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Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; City called heaven ; God's a-gonna trouble the water ; Walk together children ; I know moon-rise ; I'm a-rollin' ; I been rebuked and I been scorned ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Soon I will be done ; No more auction block ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Been in the storm so long ; Oh, freedom! -- This little light of mine ; Down by the riverside ; Freedom in the air ; Take my hand, precious Lord ; Peace be still ; Stand by me -- Yellow dog blues ; St. Louis blues ; Beale Street blues ; Down-hearted blues ; See, see rider ; Prove it on me blues ; Gulf Coast blues ; Trouble in mind ; Backwater blues ; In the house blues ; How long blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; It's a low down dirty shame ; Good morning, blues ; Sent for you yesterday ; Going to Chicago blues ; Fine and mellow ; Hoochie coochie ; Sunnyland.
We raise de wheat ; Me and my captain ; Promises of freedom ; Jack and Dinah want freedom ; Run, nigger, run ; Learn to count ; Another man done gone ; You may go but this will bring you back -- Poor Lazarus ; The signifying monkey ; Wild Negro Bill ; John Henry ; Frankie and Johnny ; Railroad Bill ; Stackolee ; Sinking of the Titanic ; Shine and the Titanic -- Pick a bale of cotton ; Go down, old Hannah ; Can't you line it?
(What did I do to be so) black and blue / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Parker's mood
The revolution will not be televised / The message / Don't believe the hype / The evil that men do
God -- The Eagle stirreth her nest / Faith hasn't got no eyes / I have a dream ; I've been to the mountaintop / The ballot or the bullet
All God's chillen had wings ; Big talk ; Deer hunting story ; How to write a letter ; "'Member youse a nigger" ; "Ah'll beatcher makin' money" ; Why the sister in black works hardest ; Why women always take advantage of men ; "De reason niggers is working so hard" ; The ventriloquist ; You talk too much, anyhow ; The king buzzard ; A flying fool ; Bur Rabbit in Red Hill churchyard ; Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox again ; The wonderful tar-baby story ; How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox ; The awful fate of Mr. Wolf ; What the rabbit learned.
Bars fight / The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself. Volume 1. Chapter I ; Chapter II ; from Chapter III ; from Chapter IV / Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. Preface ; Letter sent by the author's master to the publisher ; To the publick / To Mæcenas ; To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth ; On imagination ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; To Samson Occom ; To his excellency General Washington / David Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world. Preamble ; Article I : our wretchedness in consequence of slavery / The lover's farewell ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself
Ar'n't I a woman? speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 ; from The Anti-slavery bugle, June 21, 1851 ; from The narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878 / Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build. Introduction / Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall / Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Preface ; Childhood ; The new master and mistress ; The trials of girlhood ; A perilous passage in the slave girl's life ; Another link to life ; The flight ; The loophole of retreat ; Preparations for escape ; The confession ; The Fugitive Slave Law ; Free at last / Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Chapter V ; from Chapter VI / Clotel, or, The president's daughter. The Negro sale ; Going to the South ; The quadroon's home ; To-day a mistress, tomorrow a slave ; Escape of Clotel / Lines suggested on reading "An appeal to Christian women of the South, " by A.E. Grimke / An address to the slaves of the United States of America / The mulatto / Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / My bondage and my freedom. Introduced to the abolitionists ; Twenty-one months in Great Brittain
from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? : an address delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Second part. Weighed in the balance / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Third part. Later life / America ; Yes! strike again that sounding string ; Self-reliance / Ethiopia ; Eliza Harris ; The slave mother ; Vashti ; Bury me in a free land ; Aunt Chloe's politics ; Learning to read ; A double standard ; Songs for the people ; An appeal to my country women ; The two offers ; Our greatest want / Fancy etchings. Enthusiasm and lofty aspirations ; Dangerous economies / Woman's political future / Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, north. Preface ; Mag Smith, my mother ; My father's death ; A new home for me ; Visitor and departure ; Perplexities, another death ; The winding up of the matter
A parting hymn / Journals. from Journal one ; from Journal three / Up from slavery. A slave among slaves ; Boyhood days ; The struggle for an education ; The Atlanta Exposition address / The goopherd grapevine ; The passing of Grandison ; The wife of his youth / Womanhood a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Contending forces. The sewing-circle ; Will Smith's defense of his race / Famous men of the Negro race. Booker T. Washington / Famous women of the Negro race. Literary workers : Frances E.W. Harper / Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's reply : March 1903 / A red record. The case stated ; The remedy / A litany of Atlanta ; The song of the smoke ; The souls of black folk ; The damnation of women ; Criteria of Negro art ; Two novels
The snapping of the bow ; Me 'n' Dunbar ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; At the closed gate of justice ; An indignation dinner / Sence you went away ; Lift ev'ry voice and sing ; O black and unknown bards ; Fifty years ; Brothers ; The creation ; My city ; The autobiography of an ex-colored man / The book of American Negro poetry. Preface / Ode to Ethiopia ; Worn out ; A Negro love song ; The colored soldiers ; An ante-bellum sermon ; Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes ; Not they who soar ; When Malindy sings ; We wear the mask ; Little brown baby ; Her thought and his ; A cabin tale ; Sympathy ; Dinah kneading dough ; The haunted oak ; Douglass ; Philosophy ; Black Samson of Brandywine ; The poet ; The Fourth of July and race outrages / The hindered hand, or, The reign of the repressionist. The fugitives flee again ; The blaze / Violets ; I sit and sew ; April is on the way ; Violets / The watchers ; The house of falling leaves ; Sic vita ; Turn me to my yellow leaves ; Quiet has a hidden sound / Singing hallelujia ; Song of the whirlwind ; My God in heaven said to me ; The lonely mother ; Tired ; The scarlet woman
The Negro digs up his past / A winter twilight ; The black finger ; For the candle light ; When the green lies over the earth ; Tenebris / Before the feast of Shushan ; Dunbar ; At the carnival ; Lady, lady ; Letter to my sister ; The wife-woman / Plum bun : a novel without a moral. from Home. Black Philadelphia ; Sundays / The new Negro / The heart of a woman ; Youth ; My little dreams ; Lost illusions ; I want to die while you love me / Africa for the Africans ; The future as I see it / Harlem shadows ; If we must die ; To the white fiends ; Africa ; America ; My mother ; Enslaved ; The White House ; Outcast ; St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd / Home to Harlem. He also loved / Harlem runs wild / Sweat ; How it feels to be colored me ; The gilded six-bits ; Characteristics of Negro expression / Mules and men. Negro folklore / Their eyes were watching God. The return ; Pear tree / Dust tracks on a road. Research / Quicksand. To Denmark ; New life ; Talk of marriage ; Proposal ; Good-bye / Cane / The Negro-art hokum / The city of refuge ; The Caucasian storms Harlem
The wharf rats / On being young, a woman, and colored / Odyssey of Big Boy ; Long gone ; Southern road ; Strong men ; Memphis blues ; Slim Greer ; Tin roof blues ; Ma Rainey ; Cabaret ; Sporting Beasley ; Sam Smiley / Heritage ; To a dark girl ; Sonnet, 2 ; Hatred / Infants of the spring. Harlem salon / Golgotha is a mountain ; A black man talks of reaping ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern mansion ; Miracles ; A summer tragedy / The Negro speaks of rivers ; Mother to son ; Danse africaine ; Jazzonia ; When Sue wears red ; Dream variations ; The weary blues ; I too ; A house in Taos ; Homesick blues ; Po' boy blues ; Gypsy man ; Lament over love ; Red silk stockings ; Bad man ; Song for a dark girl ; Gal's cry for a dying lover ; Hard daddy ; Sylvester's dying bed ; Ballad of the landlord ; Juke box love song ; Dream boogie ; Harlem ; Motto ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain ; The blues I'm playing / The big sea. When the Negro was in vogue ; Harlem literati ; Downtown / The best of Simple. Feet live their own life ; A toast to Harlem ; Jealousy / Yet do I marvel ; Tableau ; Incident ; Saturday's child ; The shroud of color ; Heritage ; To John Keats, poet at spring time ; From the dark tower / Poem ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Remember not ; Invocation
An ex-judge at the bar ; Dark symphony ; A legend of Versailles ; Libretto for the Republic of Liberia ; The birth of John Henry ; Satchmo / The living is easy. Cleo ; Cleo's high jinks ; Cleo goes north / Blueprint for Negro writing ; The ethics of living Jim Crow, an autobiographical sketch ; Long black song ; The man who lived underground / Black boy. Booklist ; Chicago / Salute to the passing / Like a winding sheet / The street. The apartment / The diver ; Homage to the empress of the blues ; Middle passage ; O Daedalus, fly away home ; Runagate runagate ; Frederick Douglass ; A ballad of remembrance ; Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Soledad ; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ; A letter from Phillis Wheatley / Invisible man. Battle royal ; Epilogue / Change the joke and slip the yoke ; The world and the jug
For my people ; Poppa chicken ; For Malcolm X ; Prophets for a new day / Kitchenette building ; The mother ; A song in the front yard ; Sadie and Maud ; The vacant lot ; The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith ; Maxie Allen ; The rites for Cousin Vit ; The children of the poor ; The lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock ; A lovely love ; Malcolm X ; Two dedications ; Riot ; The third sermon on the Warpland ; Young heroes ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story ; Maud Martha / Everybody's protest novel ; Many thousands gone ; Stranger in the village ; Notes of a native son ; Sonny's blues / Walking Parker home ; Grandfather was queer, too ; Jail poems ; Unanimity has been achieved, not a dot less for its accidentalness ; War memoir : jazz, don't listen to it at your own risk / A raisin in the sun
Status symbol ; I am a black woman / Towards a black aesthetic / The autobiography of Malcolm X. Saved / The man who cried I am. In an outdoor cafe ; Memories, Margrit, and morphine ; Picture of the writer / Letter from Birmingham jail / The idea of ancestry ; Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; For black poets who think of suicide / The black aesthetic. Introduction / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; In memory of radio ; A poem for black hearts ; I don't love you ; Three movements and a coda ; SOS ; Black art ; The invention of comics ; Dutchman ; The revolutionary theatre
Homecoming ; Poem at thirty ; For our lady ; Summer words of a sistuh addict / A blues book for blue black magical women. Part three. Present / Goin' a buffalo : a tragifantasy / Soul on ice. The primeval mitosis / Did John's music kill him? / How long has Trane been gone / The black arts movement / Black art : mute matter given force and function / Back again, home ; Introduction : to Think black ; The long reality ; Malcolm spoke/who listened? ; A poem to complement other poems / For Saundra ; Beautiful black men ; Nikki-Rosa / A solo song : for Doc / In Texas grass ; Conversation overheard ; Impressions/of Chicago, for Howlin' Wolf / Jesus was crucified ; It is deep ; For sistuhs wearin' straight hair
Train whistle guitar. History lessons / Still I rise ; My Arkansas / I know why the caged bird sings. Mrs. Flowers ; "Mam" / Reena ; To Da-duh, in memoriam ; The making of a writier : from the poets in the kitchen / A movie star has to star in black and white / Sula / The sky is gray / Father Son and Holy Ghost ; The winds of Orisha ; Coal ; Now that I am forever with child ; A litany for survival ; The evening news ; Poetry is not a luxury / Pike Street bus ; The Griots who know Brer Fox ; Tapestries ; Caledonia / The bodies broken on ; The lost baby poem ; Prayer ; Malcolm ; Kali ; If mama/could see ; Homage to my hips ; What spells raccoon to me ; 1. At Jonestown ; A woman who loves ; Wishes for sons ; Move / In memoriam : Martin Luther King Jr. ; I must become a menace to my enemies ; Poem about my rights ; Poem for Guatemala ; The female and the silence of a man ; Intifada ; A new politics of sexuality / Swallow the lake ; Round midnight ; On watching a caterpillar become a butterfly ; Chicago heat
There is a tree more ancient than Eden. The epistle of Sweetie Reed / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Deathwatch ; Here where Coltrane is ; Br'er Sterling and the rocker ; Grandfather ; "Goin' to the territory" ; In Hayden's collage ; The ghost of soul-making / I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra ; Railroad Bill, a conjure man ; Dualism : in Ralph Elliison's Invisible man ; Chattanooga ; Oakland blues ; Neo-HooDoo manifesto / Mumbo jumbo. Chapters 1-2 / Raymond's run / A dance for Ma Rainey ; Conjugal visits / The seduction of light. Ben Franklin ; Secondhand business / Brothers and keepers. Robby's version / Damballah / Atlantis : model 1924 (d) / The peacock poems : 1 ; I want Aretha to set this to music ; Tell Martha not to moan / Women ; Outcast ; On stripping bark from myself ; "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" ; In search of our mothers' gardens ; Everyday use ; Advancing Luna, and Ida B. Wells / The color purple. God love all them feelings / Fences / Within the veil ; Columba
Emmett Till ; Today I am a homicide in the north of the city ; Be quiet, go away ; At the record hop ; American sonnet (10) ; Bedtime story ; Mastectomy / Bloodchild / February in Sydney ; Facing it ; Sunday afternoons ; Banking potatoes ; Birds on a powerline / Falso brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou : 8 / Djbot Baghostu's run. 26.IX.81 / The education of Mingo / from For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ; Nappy edges ; Bocas : a daughter's geography / Annie John. The circling hand / The Chaneysville incident. Old Jack / The women of Brewster Place. The two / Quilting on the rebound / David Walker (1785-1830) ; Parsley ; Receiving the stigmata ; from Thomas and Beulah ; The event ; Motherhood ; Daystar ; The Oriental ballerina ; Pastoral ; from Mother love ; Persephone abducted ; Statistic : the witness ; Mother love ; Demeter mourning ; History ; Demeter's prayer to Hades / Devil in a blue dress. DeWitt Albright ; Joppy ; Daphne Monet / Conditions. XXI ; XXII ; XXIV
Gates, Henry Louis.
McKay, Nellie Y.
Andy Razaf -- Duke Ellington -- King Pleasure.
Gil Scott-Heron -- Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five -- Public Enemy -- Queen Latifah.
C.L. Franklin -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Martin Luther King -- Malcolm X.
Lucy Terry -- Olaudah Equiano -- Phillis Wheatley -- Phillis Wheatley -- David Walker -- George Moses Horton.
Sojourner Truth -- Maria W. Stewart -- Maria W. Stewart -- Harriet Jacobs -- William Wells Brown -- William Wells Brown -- Ada (Sarah L. Forten) -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Victor Séjour -- Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass -- James M. Whitfield -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Harriet E. Wilson.
Charlotte Forten Grimké -- Charlotte Forten Grimké -- Booker T. Washington -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- W.E.B. Du Bois.
James D. Corrothers -- James Weldon Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sutton E. Griggs -- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Fenton Johnson.
Arthur A. Schomburg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Anne Spencer -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Alain Locke -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Marcus Garvey -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Nella Larsen -- Jean Toomer -- George Samuel Schuyler -- Rudolph Fisher.
Eric Walrond -- Marita Bonner -- Sterling A. Brown -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Wallace Thurman -- Arna Bontemps -- Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Countee Cullen -- Helene Johnson.
Melvin B. Tolson -- Dorothy West -- Richard Wright -- Richard Wright -- Chester B. Himes -- Ann Petry -- Ann Petry -- Robert Hayden -- Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Ellison.
Margaret Walker -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- James Baldwin -- Bob Kaufman -- Lorraine Hansberry.
Mari Evans -- Hoyt Fuller -- Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) -- John Alfred Williams -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Etheridge Knight -- Addison Gayle Jr. -- Amiri Baraka.
Sonia Sanchez -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ed Bullins -- Eldridge Cleaver -- A.B. Spellman -- Jayne Cortez -- Larry Neal -- Maulana Karenga -- Haki R. Madhubuti -- Nikki Giovanni -- James Alan McPherson -- Quincy Troupe -- Carolyn M. Rodgers.
Albert Murray -- Maya Angelou -- Maya Angelou -- Paule Marshall -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Toni Morrison -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Audre Lorde -- Colleen McElroy -- Lucille Clifton -- June Jordan -- Clarence Major.
Leon Forrest -- Michael S. Harper -- Ishmael Reed -- Ishmael Reed -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Al Young -- Al Young -- John Edgar Wideman -- John Edgar Wideman -- Samuel R. Delany -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Alice Walker -- Alice Walker -- August Wilson -- Michelle Cliff.
Wanda Coleman -- Octavia Butler -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Charles Johnson -- Ntozake Shange -- Jamaica Kincaid -- David Bradley -- Gloria Naylor -- Terry McMillan -- Rita Dove -- Walter Mosley -- Essex Hemphill.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Nellie Y. McKay, general editor.
1996
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