Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the Reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form.
Content Note
The Goophered grapevine / Charles Chesnutt -- The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Fauset -- Esther / Jean Toomer -- The hands: a story / Marita Bonner -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Miss Cynthia / Rudolph Fisher -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Headwaiter / Chester Himes -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Jack in the pot / Dorothy West -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes -- The only man on Liberty street / William Melvin Kelley -- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin -- Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? / Ann Petry -- Mother dear and daddy / Junius Edwards -- Blues for Pablo / John Stewart -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- What's your problem? / Robert Boles -- The distributors / Henry Dumas.