Anthology of African American literature from the 1890s to the 1960s.

Includes index.

A child's reasoning. Letter to his master, Thomas Auld / Frederick Douglass -- The goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- The party. A song. We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The song of the smoke. Of the sons of master and man / W.E.B. Dubois -- O black and unknown bards. Sence [sic] you went away / James Weldon Johnson -- The new negro / Alain Locke -- America. The white house. Harlem dancer. In bondage. Harlem shadows. The white city. North and south. Baptism. If we must die / Claude McKay -- Esther. Avey / Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- The yellow one / Eric Walrond -- Negro character as seen by white authors / Sterling A. Brown -- Yet do I marvel. Heritage. For a poet. For a pessimist. For John Keats. For Paul Laurence Dunbar. She of the dancing feet sings. Counter mood. Song in spite of myself. Magnets. What I am saying now was said before. These are no wind-blown rumors, of say-sos. To France. Scottsboro, too, is worth its song / Countee Cullen -- The negro speaks of rivers. Mulatto. The negro mother. Evenin' air blues. Dream boogie. On the road. Dear Dr. Butts / Langston Hughes.