A collection of poems, songs. stories and recipes written by and about African Americans.

Includes index.

A race is like man / John W. Vandercook -- Nativity / Aquah Laluah -- Memories of Christmas / Langston Hughes -- How come Christmas / Roark Bradford -- Plantation Christmas / Julia Peterkin -- Christmas gift / Zora Neale Hurston -- Legend of the black madonna / Margaret T. Applegarth -- Goat comes to the Christmas party / Eva Knox Evans -- New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass -- Anxious days and sleepless nights / Booker T. Washington -- Christmas is a-comin' / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Speakin' O' Christmas / P.L. Dunbar -- Christmas carol / P.L. Dunbar -- Little Christmas basket / P.L. Dunbar -- Through the holly wreath / Effie Lee Newsome -- Magi call him king / Effie Lee Newsome.-- Carol of brown king / Langston Hughes -- Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- On pallet of straw / L. Hughes -- Peppermint candy march / Effie Lee Newsome -- Shepherd's song at Christmas / L. Hughes -- Christmas story / L. Hughes -- On Christmas night / L. Hughes -- Anonymous verse; from Puerto Rican Christmas card / Anon. -- Every man heart lay down / Lorentz Graham -- Stable / Gabriela Mistral -- Indian Christmas / G. Mistral -- Go tell it to the mountain / Negro spiritual -- Wasn't that a mighty day / Negro spiritual -- The Virgin Mary had a baby boy / Negro spiritual -- What you gonna name that pretty little boy? / Negro spiritual -- Rise up, shepherd, and follow / Negro spiritual -- God's Christmas tree / Evelyn C. Reynolds -- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen -- The Black Madonna / Albert Rice -- Otto / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Christmas recipes.