Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 Book

Introduction

Part I - Black And White Tangled Threads

Sanctuary - Nella Larsen

Two Gentlemen of Boston - Florida Ruffin Ridley

Little Heads: A One-Act Play of Negro Life - Alvira Hazzard

My Two Grandmothers - Aloise Barbour Epperson

Flower of the South - Gertrude Schalk

Masks, a Story - Eloise Bibb Thompson

The Man Who Passed: A Play in One Act - Regina M. Andrews

Why, How, When and Where Black Becomes White - Mary Church Terrell

From Black and White Tangled Threads - Zara Wright

Part 2 - Dreaming In Color

Belated Romance - Florence Marion Harmon

The Pink Hat - Caroline Bond Day

Hope Deferred - Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Lai-Li - Mae V. Cowdery

Little Cornish, the "Blue Boy" - Effie Lee Newsome

The Noose - Octavia B. Wynbusb

If Wishes Were Horses - Edythe Mae Gordon

Subversion - Edythe Mae Gordon

Part 3 - Native Daughter

To a Wild Rose - Ottie B. Graham

The Zulu King: New Orleans (at Mardi Gras) - Josephine Copeland

Negro Folk Songs - Josephine Copeland

Preface: Other Bostonians - Florida Ruffin Ridley

Nativity - Gladys Casely Hayford

A Poem - Gladys Casely Hayford

The Palm Wine Seller - Gladys Casely Hayford

Rainy Season Love Song - Gladys Casely Hayford

Is It Not Enough - Ida Rowland

Negroid Things - Ida Rowland

Are We Different? - Ida Rowland

The Family of Nat Turner, 1831-1954 - Lucy Mae Turner

Where the West Begins, from American Daughter - Era Bell Thompson

From The Negro Trailblazers of California - Delilah Leontium Beasley

Native Daughter: An Indictment of White America by a Colored Woman - Ellen Tarry

Part 4 - Longings

Calling Dreams - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Question - Georgia Douglas Johnson

My Son - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Armageddon - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Interim - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Ivy - Georgia Douglas Johnson

I Wonder - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Afterglow - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Love's Way: A Christmas Story - Carrie W. Clifford

Joy - Clarissa Scott Delany

The Mask - Clarissa Scott Delany

Interim - Clarissa Scott Delany

Solace - Clarissa Scott Delany

Noblesse Oblige - Jessie Fauset

Dead Fires - Jessie Fauset

Oblivion - Jessie Fauset

La Vie C'est la Vie - Jessie Fauset

Words! Words! - Jessie Fauset

The Eternal Quest - Anita Scott Coleman

In '61 - Ethel Caution Davis

Longing - Ethel Caution Davis

Sunset - Ethel Caution Davis

Long Remembering - Ethel Caution Davis

Longings - Nellie R. Bright

Part 5 - Spunk

Early Days in Cleveland, from A Nickel and a Prayer - Jane Edna Hunter

The Negro Today - Marion Vera Cuthbert

A Talk on Evolution - Mercedes Gilbert

The Equal Rights League, from Crusade for Justice - Ida B. Wells -Barnett

To the Oppressors - Pauli Murray

Mr. Roosevelt Regrets - Pauli Murray

From Tales My Father Told and Other Stories - Hallie Quinn Brown

Spunk - Zora Neale Hurston

Part 6 - My Great, Wide, Beautiful World

Black - Nellie R. Bright

From African Journey - Eslanda Goode Robeson

Wedding Day - Gwendolyn B. Bennett

Letters - Idabelle Yeiser

Twenty -Seventh Day, from Journey to Accompong - Katherine Dunham

Why - Brenda Ray Moryck

From My Great, Wide, Beautiful World - Juanita V. Harrison

Part 7 - Harlem's Glory: A Woman's View

The Comer - Eunice Hunton Carter

The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation - Elise Johnson McDougald

Story in Harlem Slang: Jelly's Tale - Zora Neale Hurston

From "The Ebony Flute" - Gwendolyn B. Bennett

My Race - Helene Johnson

Metamorphism - Helene Johnson

Bottled - Helene Johnson

Tar - Shirley Graham

Solo on the Drums - Ann Petry

Part of the Pack: Another View of Night Life in Harlem - Hazel V. Campbell

Part 8 - In The Looking Glass

Prelude - Ariel Williams Holloway

Memory of a 'Jim Crow" Car - Ariel Williams Holloway

My Temple - Ariel Williams Holloway

To One Who Would Be Great - Ariel Williams Holloway

His Life and Mine - Ariel Williams Holloway

Problems Facing Negro Young Women - Marion Vera Cuthbert

Mammy - Dorothy West

'Bidin' Place - May Miller

Since 1619 - Margaret Walker

Lineage - Margaret Walker

People of Unrest - Margaret Walker

We Have Been Believers - Margaret Walker

Black Death - Zora Neale Hurston

Letter to My Sister - Anne Spencer

At the Carnival - Anne Spencer

Lady, Lady - Anne Spencer

Black Man o' Mine - Anne Spencer

White Things - Anne Spencer

The Wife -Woman - Anne Spencer

Freedom - Aloise Barbour Epperson

A Negro in a Dime Store - Aloise Barbour Epperson

Heard on an Atlantic City Bridge - Aloise Barbour Epperson

Part 9 - Crisis

One True Love - Marita Bonner

—And I Passed By - Marita Bonner

The Women of the White Strain - Elise Johnson McDougald

The Handicapped - Angelina Weld Grimké

Flag Salute - Esther Popel

Blasphemy—American Style - Esther Popel

October Prayer - Esther Popel

Mob Madness - Marion Vera Cuthbert

Slackened Caprice - Ottie B. Graham

He Must Think It Out - Florida Ruffin Ridley

Part 10 -The offering

One Blue Star - May Miller

The Five Dollar Bill - Dorothy West

The Tie That Used to Bind: A Mid -Victorian Negro Marriage - Anna J. Cooper

The Return of a Modern Prodigal - Octavia B. Wynbush

A Blossom in an Alley - Sarah Collins Fernandis

The Torch Bearer - Sarah Collins Fernandis

The offering - Sarah Collins Fernandis

Biographical Notes

Illustration Credits