Anthologies of African American Writing

Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America

"Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America" . Ed. John Henrik Clarke. New York: New American Library, 1970. 222 pp.

• Repr. as "Harlem Voices: From the Soul of Black America". Brooklyn, NY: A & B Books, 1993. xii+222 pp.

Contents (1970 ed.): Verisimilitude / John P. Davis -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- One way to heaven / Countee Cullen -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- Jack in the pot / Dorothy West -- In darkness and confusion / Ann Petry -- So softly smiling / Chester Himes -- Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes -- Roy's wound / James Baldwin -- Revolt of the angels / John Henrik Clarke -- A good long sidewalk / William Melvin Kelley -- Some get wasted / Paule Marshall -- Now that Henry is gone / Clayton Riley -- Unfinished / LeRoi Jones -- The other side of Christmas / Ray J. Meaddough -- Rough diamond / John Oliver Killens -- Harlem teacher / Lorraine Freeman --All day long / Maya Angelou -- Daddy was a number runner / Louise M. Meriwether -- Harlem on the rocks / Loyle Hairston.

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• Short story collection; 20 stories from Harlem (Kinnamon 1997: 472).

• Clarke, John Henrik, ed. "Harlem, A Community in Transition". New York: Citadel, 1964. 223 pp.
Contents: Talking about Harlem / Sylvester Leaks -- Harlem: the making of a ghetto / Gilbert Osofsky -- The literature of Harlem / Ernest Kaiser -- The legacy of Alain Locke / Eugene C. Holmes -- The Harlem Renaissance-personal memoir / Glenn Carrington -- My early days in Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Pictures of Harlem / ALvin Simon and John Taylor -- The music of Harlem / William R. Dixon -- Africa conscious Harlem / Richard B. Moore -- The nationalist movements of Harlem / E.U . Essien-Udom -- Economic structure of the Harlem community / Hope R. Stevens -- Revolt of the angels-a short story / John H. Clarke -- A conversation with James Baldwin / Kenneth B. Clark -- Parties and politics in Harlem / Paul B. Zuber -- Notes on My Native Sons / Gertude Elise Ayer -- The Negro theatre and the Harlem community / Loften Mitchell -- The need for a Harlem theatre / Jim Williams -- Harlem nightclub / John A. WIlliams -- Three Poems: the ballad of Joe Meek; An old Woman Remembers; southern Cop / Sterling A. Brown -- Bedford-Stuyvesant-land of superlatives / Milton A. Galamison -- A house is not always a home / George F. Brown -- The Schomburg collection / Jean Blackwell Hutson -- HARYOU: an experiment / Kenneth B. Clark -- The Harlem riot-1964 / Langston Hughes.
• Clarke, John Henrik, ed. "Harlem, U.S.A." New York: Collier, 1971. xxvi+388 pp.; Berlin: Seven Seas, 1974. (Rev. ed. of "Harlem, A Community in Transition".)
Contents: Harlem, city within a city -- Taling about Harlem / Sylvester Leaks -- Harlem: the making of a ghetto / Gilbert Osofsky -- The legacy of Alain Locke / Eugene C. Holmes -- Africa-conscious Harlem / Richard B. Moore -- My early days in Harlem / Langston Hughes -- The nationalist movements of Harlem / E.U. Essien-Udom -- How Bootsie was born / Ollie Harrington -- HARYOU-ACT in Harlem -- the dream that went astray / Kenneth B. Clarke -- Growth and survival in Harlem / Claude Brown -- Harlem and the arts, sciences, and professions -- Four rebels in art / Elton C. Fax -- The Negro theatre and the Harlem community / Loften Mitchell -- The Negro in American films / Carlton Moss -- A challenge to artists / Lorraine Hansberry -- The music of Harlem / William R. Dixon -- Purlie told me! / Ossie Davis -- And then came Baldwin / Julian Mayfield -- A talk to Harlem teachers / James Baldwin -- Harlem and jobs, politics, and bank accounts -- Aspects of the economic structure of the Harlem community / Hope R. Stevens -- Birmingham's Harlem / Leonard W. Holt -- Cartoon / Brumsic Brandon, Jr. -- Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Harlem across the river / Milton A. Galamison -- The alienation of James Baldwin / John Henrik Clarke -- Education in Harlem -- I.S. 201 in perspective / Charles E. Wilson -- Four men of Harlem -- the movers and the shakers / John Henrik Clarke -- Harlem and the poets / Gordon R. Watkins, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Ricardo Weeks, John Henrik Clarke, Sterling A. Brown -- Harlem and the short story -- Revolt of the angels / John Henrik Clarke -- The Harlem rat / John H. Jones -- The winds of change / Loyle Hairston -- The health card / Alice Childress -- I go to a funeral / Alice Childress -- Who is Simple? / Langston Hughes -- Banquet in honor / Langston Hughes -- Dear Dr. Butts / Langston Hughes -- Some get wasted / Paule Marshall -- Harlem: her authors -- Harlem: her artists and sculptors.

Kinnamon 1997: 472]

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