Crisis Reader: Stories, Poems, and Essays from the NAACP's Crisis Magazine

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Crisis Reader: Stories, Poems, and Essays from the NAACP's Crisis Magazine

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"The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poems, and Essays from the NAACP's Crisis Magazine" . Ed. Sondra K. Wilson. New York: Modern Library, 1999. xxxii+422 pp.

Table of contents

● Acknowledgements
● Introduction / Sondra Kathryn Wilson
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Editing The Crisis

Part One: Poetry
● Gwendolyn Bennett / To Usward
● Arna Bontemps / Hope
● Arna Bontemps / Dirge
● William Stanley Braithwaite / Scintilla
● Benjamin Griffith Brawley / The Freedom of the Free
● Sterling Brown / After the Storm
● James D. Corrothers / The Road to the Bow
● Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. / Shakespeare's Sonnet
● Countee Cullen / Dad
● Countee Cullen / Bread and Wine
● Countee Cullen / Sonnet to Her
● Allison Davis / Gospel for Those Who Must
● Jessie Fauset / Again It Is September
● Jessie Fauset / Rencontre
● Jessie Fauset / Courage! He Said
● Leslie Pinckney Hill / The Teacher
● Leslie Pinckney Hill / Vision of a Lyncher
● Frank Horne / Letters Found Near a Suicide
● Frank Horne / Harlem
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
● Langston Hughes / The South
● Langston Hughes / Being Old
● Roscoe C. Jamison / Negro Soldiers
● Charles Bertram Johnson / Old Things
● Charles Bertram Johnson / True Wealth
● Fenton Johnson / My Love
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Prejudice
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Motherhood
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Decay
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Courier
● James Weldon Johnson / Father, Father Abraham
● James Weldon Johnson / Brothers
● James Weldon Johnson / Helene
● James Weldon Johnson / The River
● James Weldon Johnson / Moods
● James Weldon Johnson / A Passing Melody
● Claude McKay / The International Spirit
● Alice Dunbar Nelson / Sonnet
● Alice Dunbar Nelson / The Proletariat Speaks
● Effie Lee Newsome / Exodus
● Effie Lee Newsome / Bluebird
● Effie Lee Newsome / The Little Page
● Anne Spencer / Dunbar
● Anne Spencer / White Things
● Jean Toomer / Song of the Son
● Jean Toomer / Banking Coal

Part Two: Fiction
● Fenton Johnson / The Servant
● Jessie Fauset / Emmy
● James D. Corrothers / A Man They Didn't Know
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Doll
● Charles W. Chesnutt / Mr. Taylor's Funeral
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Marked Tree
● Arthur Huff Fauset / A Tale of the North Carolina Woods
● Rudolph Fisher / High Yaller
● Edwin Drummond Sheen / The Death Game
● Anita Scott Coleman / Unfinished Masterpieces
● Marita O. Bonner / Nothing New
● Marita O. Bonner / Drab Rambles
● Frank Horne / The Man Who Wanted to Be Red

Part Three: Plays
● Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. / On the fields of France
● Willis Richardson / The Broken Banjo
● Marita O. Bonner / Exit, an Illusion

Part Four: Essays
Personal Essays
● William Stanley Braithwaite / Twilight, an Impression
● E. Franklin Frazier / All God's Chillun Got Eyes
● Marita O. Bonner / On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored
● Marita O. Bonner / The Young Blood Hungers
● Loren R. Miller / College
● Countee Cullen / Countee Cullen to His Friends
● Augusta Savage / An Autobiography

Literary and Cultural Essays
● Jessie Fauset / New Literature on the Negro
● Jessie Fauset / The Symbolism of Bert Williams
● James Weldon Johnson / Plácido
● James Weldon Johnson / Negro Authors and White Publishers
● Alain Locke / Steps Toward the Negro Theatre
● Carl Diton / The National Association of Negro Musicians
● Claude McKay / Soviet Russia and the Negro
● W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke / The Younger Literary Movement
● Maud Cuney Hare / Antar, Negro Poet of Arabia
● William Stanley Braithwaite / The Negro in Literature
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Criteria of Negro Art
● Allison Davis / Our Negro "Intellectuals"
● R. Nathaniel Dett / A Musical Invasion of Europe
● C. Ruth Wright / Negro Authors' Week: An Experiment

Social Essays
● Walter White / The Work of a Mob
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Documents of the War
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Marcus Garvey
● Mordecai Wyatt Johnson / The Faith of the American Negro
● E. Franklin Frazier / Coöperation and the Negro
● William Pickens / John Brown Day
● Horace Mann Bond / Temperament
● James Weldon Johnson / Three Achievements and Their Significance
● Robert W. Bagnall / The Present South
● Susie Wiseman Yergan / Africa—Our Challenge

Biographical Notes of Contributors
Bibliography

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A0331

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