Black Voices“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James Baldwin An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American authors of our time, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Leroi Jones, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Malcom X, and many more. Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today’s African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. Contributors Also Include: Sterling A. Brown Charles W. Chesnutt John Henrik Clarke Countee Cullen Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar James Weldon Johnson Naomi Long Madgett Paule Marshall Clarence Major Claude McKay Ann Petry Dudley Randall J. Saunders Redding Jean Toomer Darwin T. Turner Lerone Bennett, Jr. Frank London Brown Arthur P. Davis Frank Marshall Davis Owen Dodson Mari Evans Rudolph Fisher Dan Georgakas Robert Hayden Frank Horne Blyden Jackson Lance Jeffers Fenton Johnson George E. Kent Alain Locke Diane Oliver Stanley Sanders Richard G. Stern Sterling Stuckey Melvin B. Tolson |
Contents
JEAN TOOMER | 16 |
RUDOLPH FISHER | 28 |
ARNA BONTEMPS | 43 |
Feet Live Their Own Life | 56 |
Census | 63 |
Promulgations | 69 |
RALPH ELLISON | 160 |
FRANK LONDON BROWN | 170 |
28 | 418 |
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS | 427 |
OWEN DODSON | 445 |
MARGARET WALKER | 453 |
DUDLEY RANDALL | 463 |
NAOMI LONG MADGETT | 471 |
W E B DU BOIS | 491 |
ALAIN LOCKE | 512 |
DIANE OLIVER | 185 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS | 205 |
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON | 248 |
RICHARD WRIGHT | 268 |
J SAUNDERS REDDING | 280 |
JAMES BALDWIN | 299 |
MALCOLM X | 316 |
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR | 343 |
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON | 353 |
CLAUDE MCKAY | 361 |
COUNTEE CULLEN | 372 |
FRANK HORNE | 393 |
ARNA BONTEMPS | 414 |
RICHARD WRIGHT | 542 |
STERLING A BROWN | 571 |
JAMES BALDWIN | 600 |
Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro | 616 |
J SAUNDERS REDDING | 624 |
BLYDEN JACKSON | 636 |
RICHARD G STERN | 661 |
DAN GEORGAKAS | 677 |
STERLING STUCKEY | 687 |
DARWIN T TURNER | 695 |
GEORGE E KENT | 710 |
CLARENCE MAJOR | 719 |
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