Anthologies of African American Writing

Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine

"Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine" . Ed. Sondra K. Wilson. New York: Modern Library, 1999. xxvi+540 pp.

● Acknowledgements
● Sondra Kathryn Wilson / Introduction
● Charles S. Johnson / Opportunity’s Literary Prize Contest Awards

PART ONE: POETRY
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Heritage
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Wind
● Gwendolyn Bennett / On a Birthday
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Street Lamps in Early Spring
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Hatred
● Gwendolyn Bennett / Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas
● Arna Bontemps / The Shattering
● Arna Bontemps / Golgotha Is a Mountain
● Arna Bontemps / Prodigal
● Sterling Brown / When De Saints Go Ma’ching Home
● Sterling Brown / Strong Men
● Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. / The Wayside Well
● Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. / A Babe Is a Babe
● Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. / The Tragedy of Pete
● Countee Cullen / When I Am Dead
● Countee Cullen / I Have a Rendezvous with Life
● Countee Cullen / Uncle Jim
● Countee Cullen / Words to My Love
● Countee Cullen / In Spite of Death
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Of Old St. Augustine
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Communion
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Music
● Angelina W. Grimke / The Black Finger
● Angelina W. Grimke / Dusk
● Angelina W. Grimke / I Weep
● Angelina W. Grimke / For the Candle Light
● Leslie Pinckney Hill / Voyaging
● Frank Horne / On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church
● Frank Horne / To a Persistent Phantom
● Langston Hughes / Our Land
● Langston Hughes / America
● Langston Hughes / The Jester
● Langston Hughes / To Midnight Nan at Leroy's
● Langston Hughes / Dear Lovely Death
● Langston Hughes / Aesthete in Harlem
● Langston Hughes / Flight
● Langston Hughes / Pride
● Langston Hughes / Black Seed
● Langston Hughes / Negro Servant
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Christmas Greetings
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Riddle
● Helene Johnson / Night
● Helene Johnson / Metamorphism
● Helene Johnson / Fulfillment
● Helene Johnson / The Road
● Helene Johnson / Mother Summer Matures
● Helene Johnson / Vers de Société
● Claude McKay / Africa
● Claude McKay / My House
● Claude McKay / America in Retrospect
● R. Bruce Nugent / Shadow
● Clarissa M. Scott / Solace
● Clarissa M. Scott / Joy
● H. Wallace Thurman / The Last Citadel
● H. Wallace Thurman / God's Edict

PART TWO: FICTION
● John Aubrey / Virginia Idyll
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Eternal Quest
● Anita Scott Coleman / Cross Crossings Cautiously
● Arthur Huff Fauset / Symphonesque
● Rudolph Fisher / Dust
● Eugene Gordon / Game
● Zora Neale Hurston / Drenched in Light
● Zora Neale Hurston / Spunk
● Zora Neale Hurston / John Redding Goes to Sea
● Zora Neale Hurston / Muttsy
● Claude McKay / High Ball
● John F. Matheus / Fog
● John F. Matheus / Clay
● John F. Matheus / Antropoi
● John F. Matheus / Coulév' Endormi
● John F. Matheus / Nomah, A Story
● Eric D. Walrond / On Being a Domestic
● Eric D. Walrond / The Stone Rebounds
● Eric D. Walrond / Cynthia Goes to the Prom
● Eric D. Walrond / Vignettes of the Dusk
● Eric D. Walrond / A Cholo Romance
● Eric D. Walrond / The Voodoo's Revenge
● Dorothy West / The Typewriter
● Benjamin Young / The Boll Weevil Starts North, A Story

PART THREE: PLAYS
● Marita O. Bonner / The Pot Maker
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Plumes
● Frank H. Wilson / Sugar Cain

PART FOUR: REVIEWS
● Charles S. Johnson / “Nigger” a Novel by Clement Wood
● Charles S. Johnson / Some Books of 1924
● Frank S. Horne / Black Verse
● Benjamin Brawley / “The Gift of Black Folk”
● Alain Locke / “Color” A Review
● Alain Locke / Welcome the New South, A Review
● Arthur Huff Fauset / The Negro's Cycle of Song, A Review
● Sterling Brown / Two African Heroines
● Countee Cullen / Poet on Poet
● James Weldon Johnson / Romance and Tragedy in Harlem, A Review
● Nella Larson / “Black Sadie”

PART FIVE: ESSAYS
Personal Essays
● John F. Matheus / Sand
● Clarissa M. Scott / A Golden Afternoon in Germany

Literary and Cultural Essays
● John W. Work / Negro Folk Song
● Alain Locke / Roland Hayes: An Appreciation
● Alain Locke / Max Reinhardt Reads the Negro's Dramatic Horoscope
● Paul Robeson / Reflections on O'Neill's Plays
● Charles S. Johnson / Ira Aldridge
● Willis Richardson / The Negro Audience
● Willis Richardson / Characters
● Langston Hughes / Our Wonderful Society: Washington
● Brenda Ray Moryck / I, Too, Have Lived in Washington
● Brenda Ray Moryck / A Point of View (An Opportunity Dinner Reaction)
● Elmer A. Carter / He Smashed the Color Line: A Sketch of Billy Pierce

Social Essays
● Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. / The Church in Social Work
● Casper Holstein / The Virgin Islands
● Raymond Pace Alexander / Voices from Harvard's Own Negros
● Raymond Pace Alexander / The Negro Lawyer
● Kelly Miller / The Practical Value of Higher Education
● Kelly Miller / Negro History
● Kelly Miller / Where Is the Negro's Heaven?
● Charles S. Johnson / Public Opinion and the Negro
● Charles S. Johnson / The Social Philosophy of Booker T. Washington
● Robert W. Bagnall / The Spirit of the Ku Klux Klan
● E. Franklin Frazier / A Note on Negro Education
● E. Franklin Frazier / The Garvey Movement
● Mary McLeod Bethune / The Problems of the City Dweller
● A. Philip Randolph / The Negro and Economic Radicalism
● Charles H. Garvin / Immunity to Disease Among Dark-Skinned People
● Ira de A. Reid / Lily-White Labor
● J.A. Rogers / The Negro in European History
● John Hope / Trained Men for Negro Business
● Rayford W. Logan / Nat Turner, Fiend or Martyr?
● Elmer A. Carter / Not in the Headlines, a Story of a Negro Radio Operator

● Biographical Notes of Contributors
● Bibliography

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