Anthologies of African American Writing

Best Short Stories by Afro-American Writers, 1925-1950

"Best Short Stories by Afro-American Writers, 1925-1950" . Ed. Nick Aaron Ford and H. L. Faggett. Boston: Meador, 1950. 307 pp.

• Repr. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. 307 pp.

Foreword / Carl Murphy -- 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 / Olive Stewart -- I shall not be moved / Ollie Stewart -- If we could see / Howard Meschi -- She never knew? / Simeon Booker Jr.-- Mulatto flair / Gilmore Spencer -- Special assignment / Thomas C. Patterson -- The ebony elephant / Edward Lawson -- The majesty of the law / Nick Aaron Ford -- Chatter-stick sermon / H.L. Faggett -- Symbol of courage / Roland T. Hamilton -- Our country / Albert Monn -- Fighting finish / March Lacy -- A captain returns / James H. Hill -- 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 -- 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.

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• The volume is misleadingly titled: it includes only stories originally published in the Baltimore newspaper, the Afro-American (Kinnamon 1997: 472).

Kinnamon 1997: 472]

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