Anthologies of African American Writing

Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

"Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature" . Ed. Abraham Chapman. New York: New American Library, 1968. 720 pp.

• Repr. in hardcover: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970.

• Repr. as "Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature". New York: Signet Classic, 2001. 720 pp.

I. Fiction
● Charles W. Chestnut / Baxter’s Procrustes
● Jean Toomer / Karintha
● Jean Toomer / Blood-Burning Moon
● Rudolph Fisher / Common Meter
● Arna Bontemps / A Summer Tragedy
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Foreword: Who Is Simple?
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Feet Live Their Own Life
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Temptation
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Bop
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Census
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Coffee Break
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Cracker Prayer
● Langston Hughes / Tales of Simple: Promulgations
● Richard Wright / The Man Who Lived Underground
● Ann Petry / In Darkness and Confusion
● Ralph Ellison / Invisible Man (Prologue)
● Frank London Brown / McDougal
● Paule Marshall / To Da-duh, In Memoriam
● Diane Oliver / Neighbors

II. Autobiography
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter 1
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter 6
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter 7
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Chapter 10
● James Weldon Johnson / Along This Way (Selected Episodes)
● Richard Wright / The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
● J. Saunders Redding / No Day of Triumph: Chapter 1: Section 1
● J. Saunders Redding / No Day of Triumph: Chapter 1: Section 5
● J. Saunders Redding / No Day of Triumph: Chapter 1: Section 7
● James Baldwin / Autobiographical Notes
● Arna Bontemps / Why I Returned
● Malcolm X / The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Chapter 1
● Stanley Sanders / “I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto”

III. Poetry
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / We Wear the Mask
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Death Song
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Negro Love Song
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Song of the Smoke
● W.E.B. Du Bois / A Litany at Atlanta
● James Weldon Johnson / The Creation
● Fenton Johnson / The Daily Grind
● Fenton Johnson / The World Is a Mighty Ogre
● Fenton Johnson / A Negro Peddler’s Song
● Fenton Johnson / The Old Repair Man
● Fenton Johnson / Rulers
● Fenton Johnson / The Scarlet Woman
● Fenton Johnson / Tired
● Fenton Johnson / Aunt Jane Allen
● Claude McKay / Baptism
● Claude McKay / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay / Outcast
● Claude McKay / The Negro’s Tragedy
● Claude McKay / America
● Claude McKay / The White City
● Claude McKay / The White House
● Jean Toomer / Harvest Song
● Jean Toomer / Song of the Son
● Jean Toomer / Cotton Song
● Jean Toomer / Brown River, Smile
● Countee Cullen / Yet Do I Marvel
● Countee Cullen / A Song of Praise
● Countee Cullen / A Brown Girl Dead
● Countee Cullen / From the Dark Tower
● Countee Cullen / Incident
● Countee Cullen / Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
● Countee Cullen / Three Epitaphs: For My Grandmother
● Countee Cullen / Three Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar
● Countee Cullen / For A Lady I Know
● Melvin B. Tolson / An Ex-Judge at the Bar
● Melvin B. Tolson / Dark Symphony
● Melvin B. Tolson / Psi
● Frank Horne / Kid Stuff
● Frank Horne / Nigger: A Chant for Children
● Sterling A. Brown / Sister Lou
● Sterling A. Brown / Memphis Blues
● Sterling A. Brown / Slim in Hell
● Sterling A. Brown / Remembering Nat Turner
● Sterling A. Brown / Southern Road
● Sterling A. Brown / Southern Cop
● Sterling A. Brown / The Young Ones
● Sterling A. Brown / The Ballad of Joe Meek
● Sterling A. Brown / Strong Men
● Arna Bontemps / A Note of Humility
● Arna Bontemps / Gethsemane
● Arna Bontemps / Southern Mansion
● Arna Bontemps / My Heart Has Known Its Winter
● Arna Bontemps / Nocturne at Bethesda
● Arna Bontemps / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
● Arna Bontemps / The Day-Breakers
● Langston Hughes / Afro-American Fragment
● Langston Hughes / As I Grew Older
● Langston Hughes / Dream Variations
● Langston Hughes / Daybreak in Alabama
● Langston Hughes / Dream Boogie
● Langston Hughes / Children’s Rhymes
● Langston Hughes / Theme for English B
● Langston Hughes / Harlem
● Langston Hughes / Same In Blues
● Langston Hughes / Ballad of the Landlord
● Frank Marshall Davis / Four Glimpses of Night
● Frank Marshall Davis / I Sing No New Songs
● Frank Marshall Davis / Robert Whitmore
● Frank Marshall Davis / Flowers of Darkness
● Richard Wright / Between the World and Me
● Robert Hayden / Tour 5
● Robert Hayden / On the Coast of Maine
● Robert Hayden / Figure
● Robert Hayden / In Light Half Nightmare and Half Vision
● Robert Hayden / Market
● Robert Hayden / Homage to the Empress of the Blues
● Robert Hayden / Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
● Robert Hayden / Middle Passage
● Robert Hayden / Frederick Douglass
● Owen Dodson / Guitar
● Owen Dodson / Black Mother Praying
● Owen Dodson / Drunken Lover
● Owen Dodson / The Reunion
● Owen Dodson / Jonathan’s Song
● Owen Dodson / Yardbird’s Skull
● Owen Dodson / Sailors on Leave
● Margaret Walker / For My People
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Artist’s and the Models’ Ball
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Mother
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Preacher: Ruminates behind the Sermon
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Children of the Poor
● Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
● Dudley Randall / The Southern Road
● Dudley Randall / Legacy: My South
● Dudley Randall / Booker T. and W.E.B.
● The Idiot
● Lerone Bennett, Jr. / Blues and Bitterness
● Lance Jeffries / The Night Rains Hot Tar
● Lance Jeffries / On Listening to the Spirituals
● Lance Jeffries / Grief Streams Down My Chest
● Lance Jeffries / The Unknown
● Naomi Long Madgett / Native
● Naomi Long Madgett / Her Story
● Naomi Long Madgett / The Race Question
● Mari Evans / Coventry
● Mari Evans / Status Symbol
● Mari Evans / The Emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle)
● Mari Evans / My Man Let Me Pull Your Coat
● Mari Evans / Black Jam for Dr. Negro
● Leroi Jones / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide
● Leroi Jones / The Invention of Comics
● Leroi Jones / Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today
● Leroi Jones / The Death of Nick Charles
● Leroi Jones / The Bridge

IV. Literary Criticism
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter 1
● W.E.B. Du Bois / The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter 14
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● Alain Locke / The Negro in American Culture
● Richard Wright / How “Bigger” Was Born
● Sterling A. Brown / A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature
● James Baldwin / Many Thousands Gone
● Arthur P. Davis / Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959): Integration and Race Literature
● J. Saunders Redding / Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959): The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots
● Langston Hughes / Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959): Writers: Black and White
● Blyden Jackson / The Negro’s Image of the Universe as Reflected in His Fiction
● John Henrik Clarke / The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature
● Richard G. Stein / That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview with Ralph Ellison
● Dan Georgakas / James Baldwin . . . in Conversation
● Sterling Stuckey / Frank London Brown
● Darwin T. Turner / The Negro Dramatist’s Image of the Universe, 1920-1960
● George E. Kent / Ethnic Impact in American Literature
● Clarence Major / Black Criterion

● Bibliography

• Fleming, Robert E. "Negro American Literature Forum" 4.2 (1970): 70-71. "JSTOR".

• "The Negro in American Literature; and, A Bibliography of Literature by and about Negro Americans". By Abraham Chapman. Oshkosh: Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, 1966. 135 pp.

• "New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature". Comp. Abraham Chapman. New York: New American Library, 1972.

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