Anthologies of African American Writing

Harlem's Glory: Black Women's Writing, 1900-1950

"Harlem's Glory: Black Women's Writing, 1900-1950." Ed. Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996. xiii+538 pp.

• Lorraine Elena Ross and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph / Introduction

Part 1: Black and White Tangled Threads:
• Nella Larsen / Sanctuary
• Florida Ruffin Ridley / Two Gentlemen of Boston
• Alvira Hazzard / Little Heads: A One-Act Play of Negro Life
• Aloise Barbour Epperson / My Two Grandmothers
• Gertrude Schalk / Flower of the South
• Eloise Bibb Thompson / Masks, A Story
• Regina M. Andrews / The Man Who Passed: A Play in One Act
• Mary Church Terrell / Why, How, When and Where Black Becomes White
• Zara Wright / Black and White Tangled Threads (excerpt)

Part 2: Dreaming in Color:
• Florence Marion Harmon / Belated Romance
• Caroline Bond Day / The Pink Hat
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Hope Deferred
• Mae V. Cowdery / Lai-Li
• Effie Lee Newsome / Little Cornish, the "Blue Boy"
• Octavia B. Wynbush / The Noose
• Edythe Mae Gordon / If Wishes Were Horses
• Edythe Mae Gordon / Subversion

Part 3: Native Daughter:
• Ottie B. Graham / To a Wild Rose
• Josephine Copeland / The Zulu King : New Orleans (at Mardi Gras)
• Josephine Copeland / Negro Folk Songs
• Florida Ruffin Ridley / Preface: Other Bostonians
• Gladys Casely Hayford / Nativity
• Gladys Casely Hayford / A Poem
• Gladys Casely Hayford / The Palm Wine Seller
• Gladys Casely Hayford / Rainy Season Love Song
• Ida Rowland / Is It Not Enough
• Ida Rowland / Negroid Things
• Ida Rowland / Are We Different?
• Lucy Mae Turner / The Family of Nat Turner, 1831-1954
• Era Bell Thompson / Where the West Begins, excerpt from "American Daughter"
• Delilah Leontium Beasley / The Negro Trailblazers of California (excerpt)
• Ellen Tarry / Native Daughter: An Indictment of White America by a Colored Woman

Part 4: Longings:
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Calling Dreams
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Question
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / My Son
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Armageddon
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Interim
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Ivy
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / I Wonder
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Afterglow
• Carrie W. Clifford / Love's Way: A Christmas Story
• Clarissa Scott Delany / Joy
• Clarissa Scott Delany / The Mask
• Clarissa Scott Delany / Interim
• Clarissa Scott Delany / Solace
• Jessie Fauset / Noblesse Oblige
• Jessie Fauset / Dead Fires
• Jessie Fauset / Oblivion
• Jessie Fauset / La vie c'est la vie
• Jessie Fauset / Words! Words!
• Anita Scott Coleman / The Eternal Quest
• Ethel Caution Davis / In '61
• Ethel Caution Davis / Longing
• Ethel Caution Davis / Sunset
• Ethel Caution Davis / Long Remembering
• Nellie R. Bright / Longings

Part 5: Spunk:
• Jane Edna Hunter / Early Days in Cleveland, excerpt from "A Nickel and a Prayer"
• Marion Vera Cuthbert / The Negro Today
• Mercedes Gilbert / A Talk on Evolution
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett / The Equal Rights League, excerpt from "Crusade for Justice"
• Pauli Murray / To the Oppressors
• Pauli Murray / Mr. Roosevelt Regrets
• Hallie Quinn Brown / Tales My Father Told and Other Stories (excerpt)
• Zora Neale Hurston / Spunk

Part 6: My Great, Wide, Beautiful World:
• Nellie R. Bright / Black
• Eslanda Goode Robeson / African Journey (excerpt)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
/ Wedding Day
• Idabelle Yeiser / Letters
• Katherine Dunham / Twenty-Seventh Day, excerpt from "Journey to Accompong"
• Brenda Ray Moryck / Why
• Juanita V. Harrison / My Great, Wide, Beautiful World (excerpt)

Part 7: Harlem's Glory: A Woman's View:
• Eunice Hunton Carter / The Corner
• Elise Johnson McDougald / The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation
• Zora Neale Hurston / Story in Harlem Slang: Jelly's Tale
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / The Ebony Flute (excerpt)
• Helene Johnson / My Race
• Helene Johnson / Metamorphism
• Helene Johnson / Bottled
• Shirley Graham / Tar
• Ann Petry / Solo on the Drums
• Hazel V. Campbell / Part of the Pack: Another view of Night Life in Harlem

Part 8: In the Looking Glass:
• Ariel Williams Holloway / Memory of a "Jim Crow" Car
• Ariel Williams Holloway / My Temple
• Ariel Williams Holloway / To One Who Would Be Great
• Ariel Williams Holloway / His Life and Mine
• Marion Vera Cuthbert / Problems Facing Negro Young Women
• Dorothy West / Mammy
• May Miller / 'Bidin' Place
• Margaret Walker / Since 1619
• Margaret Walker / Lineage
• Margaret Walker / People of Unrest
• Margaret Walker / We Have Been Believers
• Zora Neale Hurston / Black Death
• Anne Spencer / Letter to My Sister
• Anne Spencer / At the Carnival
• Anne Spencer / Lady, Lady
• Anne Spencer / Black Man 'o Mine
• Anne Spencer / White Things
• Anne Spencer / The Wife-Woman
• Aloise Barbour Epperson / Freedom
• Aloise Barbour Epperson / A Negro in a Dime Store
• Aloise Barbour Epperson / Heard on an Atlantic City Bridge

Part 9: Crisis:
• Marita Bonner / One True Love
• Marita Bonner / —And I Passed By
• Elise Johnson McDougald / The Women of the White Strain
• Angelina Weld Grimké / The Handicapped
• Esther Popel / Flag Salute
• Esther Popel / Blasphemy—American Style
• Esther Popel / October Prayer
• Marion Vera Cuthbert / Mob Madness
• Ottie B. Graham / Slackened Caprice
• Florida Ruffin Ridley / He Must Think It Out

Part 10: The Offering:
• May Miller / One Blue Star
• Dorothy West / The Five Dollar Bill
• Anna J. Cooper / The Tie That Used to Bind: A Mid-Victorian Negro Marriage
• Octavia B. Wynbush / The Return of a Modern Prodigal
• Sarah Collins Fernandis / A Blossom in an Alley
• Sarah Collins Fernandis / The Torch Bearer
• Sarah Collins Fernandis / The Offering

• Includes an introduction by the editors, as well as brief (2-3 paragraph) biographical notes on the authors included, many of them accompanied by a photograph of the author. Each of the 10 sections into which the contents are divided begins with an introductory headnote (2-3 pages).

• A source note is given for each item included in the anthology (except for Shirley Graham's "Tar"), but there is no textual note about how the transcription of the copy text is handled. Several items are published here for the first time (Regina M. Andrews, "The Man Who Passed Away: A Play in One Act"; Mary Church Terrell, "Why, How, When and Where Black Becomes White"; Elise Johnson McDougald, "The Women of the White Strain"; Angelina Weld Grimké, "The Handicapped"; and Anna J. Cooper, "The Tie That Used to Bind: A Mid-Victorian Negro Marriage").

• The selections are lightly glossed (for historical and literary allusions; unfamiliar words), but there is no other apparatus (apart from the biographical notes on the authors).

• Martin-Anderson, Evelyn. "Treasure of Anthologies; Collection of Black Authors' Literature Becoming More Specialized." "Austin American-Statesman" (Texas) 9 Feb. 1997: D6.

not in Kinnamon 1997]

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