Anthologies of African American Writing

Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962

"Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962" . Ed. Herbert Hill. New York: Knopf, 1963. xiii+617 pp.

• "Black Voices: New Writing by American Negroes". Ed. Herbert Hill. London: Elek Books, 1964. xiii+617 pp. [note that the dust jacket gives the subtitle as "An Anthology of Negro Writing"]

● Introduction / Herbert Hill

1 / Section I: Essays
● Horace R. Cayton / Picnic with Sinclair Lewis
● James Baldwin / Letters from a Journey
● Saunders Redding / The Alien Land of Richard Wright
● John Hope Franklin / The Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar
● St. Clair Drake / Hide My Face?—On Pan-Africanism and Negritude
● Langston Hughes / Moscow Movie (from “I Wonder I Wander”)

2 / Section II: Fiction
● Richard Wright / Five Episodes
● Ann Petry / Miss Muriel
● Chester Himes / From “Lonely Crusade”
● Langston Hughes / Rock, Church
● Ralph Ellison / Out of the Hospital and Under the Bar
● Pauli Murray / From “Proud Shoes”
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Life of Lincoln West
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Helen (from “Maud Martha”)
● LeRoi Jones / The Christians (from “The System of Dante’s Hell”)
● LeRoi Jones / The Rape (from “The System of Dante’s Hell”)
● Owen Dodson / Come Home Early, Chile
● Frank London Brown / Singing Dinah’s Song
● Katherine Dunham / The Creek (from “A Touch of Innocence”)
● Ted Poston / Rat Joiner Routs the Klan
● Willard Motley / The Almost White Boy
● James Baldwin / The Seventh Day (from “Go Tell It on the Mountain”)
● William Demby / From “Beetlecreek”
● Dorothy West / From “The Living Is Easy”
● Benjamin A. Brown / From “Thunder at Dawn”
● Cyrus Colter / The Beach Umbrella

3 / Section III: Poems
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Mother (from “A Street in Bronzeville”)
● Gwendolyn Brooks / A Song In The Front Yard (from “A Street in Bronzeville”)
● Gwendolyn Brooks / When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story (from “A Street in Bronzeville”)
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Sunday of Satin-Legs Smith (from “A Street in Bronzeville”)
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Five Poems (from “Annie Allen”)
● M.B. Tolson / Abraham Lincoln of Rock Spring Farm
● Robert Hayden / Veracruz
● Robert Hayden / Full Moon
● M. Carl Holman / Picnic: The Liberated
● M. Carl Holman / Three Brown Girls Singing
● M. Carl Holman / Mr. Z
● Langston Hughes / Blues in Stereo (from “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz”)
● Langston Hughes / Ask Your Mama (from “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz”)
● Langston Hughes / Jazztet Muted (from “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz”)
● Langston Hughes / Dream Boogie (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Parade (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Children’s Rhymes (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Night Funeral in Harlem (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Harlem (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Same in Blues (from “Montage of a Dream Deferred”)
● Langston Hughes / Epigram by Armand Lanusse (Louisiana) (Translations from the French)
● Langston Hughes / She Left Herself One Evening by Léon Damas (French Guiana) (Translations from the French)
● Langston Hughes / Flute Players by Jean Joseph Rabéarivelo (Madagascar) (Translations from the French)
● Langston Hughes / Epigram by Armand Lanusse (Louisiana) (Translations from the French)
● Ossie Davis / To a Brown Girl
● LeRoi Jones / Charlie Parker: The Human Condition
● LeRoi Jones / The Insidious Dr. Fu Man Chu (from “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”)
● LeRoi Jones / The New Sherriff (from “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”)
● LeRoi Jones / The Turncoat (from “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”)
● Paul Vesey / To Satch (or American Gothic)
● Paul Vesey / A Moment Please (from “Ivory Tusks”)

• Emanuel, James A. "The Invisible Men of American Literature." "Books Abroad" 37 (1963 Autumn): 391-94. (This review of Herbert Hill's volume also "lists and discusses some sources for the study of Afro-American literature—serials, anthologies, creative works and writers, etc. Emanuel also gives the names of some black scholars who have written much on black American literature. His survey does not include plays and films" (Rowell 1972: 34).

• The anthology "exemplified the integrationist aesthetic in its essays, fiction, and poems" (Kinnamon 1997: 466).

• "What the Negro Wants" (1944): see above.
• Hill, Herbert, ed. "Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States". New York: Harper & Row, 1966. xxii+227 pp.
Contents: The negro writer and American literature / Saunders Redding -- The negro renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps -- Ideological forces in the world of negro writers / Horace R Cayton -- Philistinism and the negro writer / LeRoi Jones -- The writer in contemporary American society / Harvey Swados -- The other side of the blues / Nat Hentoff -- Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone -- Something different, something more / Albert Murray -- The afternoon of a young poet / M Carl Holman -- The wonderful world of law and order / Ossie Davis -- The poet's odyssey / Melvin T Tolson (an interview) -- Reflections on Richard Wright: a symposium on an exiled native son.

• Kinnamon 1997: 466.

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