Anthologies of African American Writing

Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature

"Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature" . Comp. Bradford Chambers and Rebecca Moon. New York: New American Library, 1970. 303 pp.

For my people / Margret Walker -- Oppression -- Jubilee / Margret Walker -- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper -- To the right Honorable William Earl of Darthmouth / Phillis Wheatley -- Of the passing of the first born / W.E.B DuBois -- For a child / Naomi Long Madgett -- Big boy leaves home / Richard Wright -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- God bless America / John O. Killens -- Black mother praying / Owen Dodson -- Nightmare / Malcolm X -- Feeding lions / Norman Jordan -- Marihuana and a pistol / Chester B. Himes -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- In darkness and confusion / Ann Petry -- Lenox avenue mural / Langston Hughes -- Resistance -- How a slave was made a man / Frederick Douglass -- Runagate, runagate / Frederick Douglass -- The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chestnut -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The convert / Lerone Benett, Jr -- The reble / Mari E. Evans -- Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- How to change the USA / Harry Edwards -- A love song for seven little boys called Sam / C.H. Fuller, Jr -- Strong men / Sterling A. Brown -- We own the night / Jimmy Garrett -- A play of blackness / Jimmy Garrett -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- Black is beautiful -- Karintha / Jean Toomer -- Blackberry sweet / Dudley Randal -- Thank you m'am / Langston Hughes -- Rulers / Fenton Johnson -- The boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke -- From a bus / Malaika Ayo Wangara -- The black finger / Angeline W. Grimke -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- W.W / LeRoi Jones -- Cry for me / William Melvin Kelly -- Jazz Poem / Carl Wendell Hines, Jr -- Not poor, just broke / Dick Gregory -- Nikki-Roasa / Nikki Giovanni -- For my people / Margaret Walker.

• n/a

Kinnamon 1997: 463]

A0134