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CONTENTS AMERICA I I, Too. Poem. Langston Hughes A Brief Outline of Negro History in the U.S. Edward A. Johnson, L.L.B. Slave Risings and Race Riots. Wendell P.Dobney Nat Turner, Revolutionist. From The Liberator Three Great Negro Women. Gladis Berry Robinson Proclamation of Emancipation. Abraham Lincoln, annotated Frederick Douglass – James W. Ford. From The Liberator Dr.Booker T. Washington. Rev. Arthur E. Massey 3 4 9 13 15 20 22 24 II The American Congo. A Roman Holyday.Aftermath of a Lynching. William Pickens 29 III Characteristics of Negro Expression. Conversions and Visions. Shouting. The Sermon. Mother Catherine. Uncle Monday. Zora Neale Hurston Negro Folklore in North Carolina. Anthony J. Buttita 39 62 IV Harlem Reviewed. Nancy Cunard Some Negro Slang. Malicious Lies magnifying the Truth. Taylor Gordon America’s Changing Color Line. Heba Jannath Three Thousand Miles on a Dime. Pauli Murray The Colored Girls of Passenack. William Carlos Williams 67 75 78 83 90 93 V Racial Integrity. Arthur A. Schomburg The Growth of Negro Literature. V.F.Calverton Some Aspects of the Negro in Contemporary Literature. John Frederick Matheus Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet. Alain J. Locke 97 101 106 111 VI The Pathology of Race Prejudice. E. Franklin Frazier Race Relations. Jesse S. Dockett Fictions in Race Relations. Rayford W. Logan Education and the Negro. Morris E. Orgel Negro Education in the South. James W. Ivy The Negro Student in U.S.A. Gabriel Carritt A Southern Boy. Ben Jamin Smith A Letter to Ezra Pound A Note on Contempo and Langston Hughes A Reactionary Negro Organisation. Nancy Cunard Black America. W.E.B. DuBois The Negro and the Supreme Court. Walter White Negro Newspapers in New York City. William E. Clark 116 119 122 125 127 138 140 141 141 142 148 152 158 The Future of the Negro Youth in Business. George X. Callender Why the American Government does not protect its Colored Citizens. Edward A. Johnson, L.L.B. The Negro in the Present appalling Trade Depression. From Opportunity 159 160 161 VII My Experiences of Colour Prejudice in America. Rev. Arthur E. Massey Things I Remember. W.S. Connolly, B.A. The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Dr. Sarah Frances Chenault Where Colour Prejudice is not a Creed. Hitting Back. Henry W. Crowder Lynching, Terrorisation, Injustice. Rev. Clarence Wimley Furies on Florida. William Pickens Facts from the American Press The American Moron and the American of Sense. Nancy Cunard 163 167 170 172 176 178 181 197 VIII Freed but not Free. D.E. Tobias Men still sold for $50 in the South. Wilson Jefferson Hoover and the Mississippi Flood. Albert Deutsch and Hy Kravif Flashes from Georgia Chain Gangs. From Georgia Nigger. John L. Spivak The Wickersham Report 201 208 209 210 223 IX The Negro National Oppression and Social Antagonisms. B.D. Amis Marxism and the American Negro. Will Herberg A Word as to Uncle Tom. Michael Gold Blacks turn Red. Eugene Gordon Afro-American Editor is for Communists. From The Liberator 225 229 233 236 241 X Scottsboro and other Scottsboros. Nancy Cunard Lynching in the Quiet Manner. Josephine Herbst Speech on the Scottsboro Case. Theodore Dreiser 243 269 271 XI Over 6,000,000 Negroes can vote in the U.S. The Black Belt Who are the Friends of the Negro People? (Speech on the Nomination of James W. Ford). C.A. Hathaway James W. Ford accepts. From the New York Daily Worker Sketch of the Life of James W. Ford From The Negro Worker Communism and the Negro. James W. Ford 273 274 275 279 279 281 NEGRO STARS The Best Negro Jazz Orchestras. Robert Goffin Louis Armstrong. Poem. Ernst Moerman Notes on the Musical and Theatrical Negro Stars. Floyd Snelson The Negro Theatre – A Dodo Bird. Ralph Matthews Rose McClendon. Robert Lewis Florence Mills. U.S. Thompson 291 295 297 312 317 320 The Dancing of Harlem. John Banting An Example of Success in Harlem Josephine Baker Looking Back on my Life. John C. Payne A Negro Film Union – Why Not? Kenneth MacPherson The Record of a Negro Boxer. Bob Scaldon From Jack Taylor 322 323 329 331 335 339 343 MUSIC America The Negro on the Spiral. George Antheil The Musical Genius of the American Negro. Clarence Cameron White Negro Creative Musicians. Edward G. Perry Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals. Zora Neale Hurston Cotton Fields, and Musical Score. Harry Miller Plantation Singing. From The Afro-American John Henry. Guy B. Johnson Ph.D Negro Songs of Protest. Lawrence Gellert A Note on Blues. Ildefonso Pereda Valdés Hot Jazz. Robert Goffin Lamentation Négre. Musical Score. Vance Lowry Way down South where the Blues began. Musical Score. W.C. Handy Creed. Musical Score. (Words by Walter Lowenfels). Henry Crowder Steel Drivin’ Sam. Musical Score. Porter Grainger Different Appreciation of Jules Bledsoe 346 351 356 359 362 363 363 366 377 378 380 382 386 388 389 Creole Gardé Piti Mulet Lá. Musical Score. Creole Folksong Folk Music of the Creoles. Maud Cuney Hare 394 396 WEST INDIES Negro Music in Porto Rico. Maud Cuney Hare The Biguine of the French Antilles. Madiana Jamaica Negro Musical Instruments. Frank Cundall Jamaica Negro “Digging Sings.” Helen H. Roberts Carry Me Half a Hoe. Musical Store Tanda, Haytian Méringue. Musical Score. Henri Etienne Canto de Xangô. Musical Score The Song of Xangô. Mario de Andrade 400 401 402 404 405 406 406 407 Africa Is the African Musical? Oluwole A. Alakija, B.A., B.C.L. Hons. Oxon ‘Cause I dey Laugh. Musical Score. Harry Quashie African Songs of the Chewa Tribe in British East Africa. George Herzog Four Melodies of Chewa Songs. Musical Score Three Zulu Songs and Musical Score. Reuben T. Caluza Nine West and East African Songs. Musical Score. Transcribed by E.Kohn Bakongo Songs (Congo). Musical Score. Sent by George Antheil 407 410 412 413 415 416 419 POETRY By Negro Poets Close your eyes. Arna Bontemps Depression. The Poet. Jonathan Brooks Strong Men. Memphis Blues. Children of the Mississippi. Sterling Brown The Black Draftee from Dixie. Carrie W. Clifford From the Dark Tower. For a Lady I Know. Incident. Countee Cullen That Other Golgotha. For a Certain Ph.D. I Know. Thomas F. Fletcher Thus speaks Africa. TO Prometheus. Walter E. Hawkins Appoggiatura. Donald J. Hayes Florida Road Workers. House in the World. To certain Negro Leaders. Always the Same. Goodbye Christ. Langston Hughes 423 423 423 425 425 425 426 426 427 West Indian Poetry Cane. Black Women. Nicholas Guillén The Conquerors. Until Yesterday. Regino Pedroso When the Tom-Tom beats. Jacques Roumain Old Black Men. Celibacy. Georgia D. Johnson 428 428 429 429 Poetry by White Poets on Negro Themes Southern Sheriff. Nancy Cunard Credic. Hittin’ de Grit. Jean de Journette Miss Sal’s Monologue. Alfred Kreymborg Night out of Harlem. Norman MacLeod The Scorpion. William Plomer The Black Crow. Carl Rakosi Elevator Men. Florence Ungar Song of the Washboard. Ildefonso P. Valdés Poem. Louis Zukonfsky 429 430 431 432 432 432 432 433 433 WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA Jamaica Jamaica, the Negro Island. Nancy Cunard Labour Conditions in Jamaica. A.A. Colebrooke Obeah, the Fetishism of the British West Indies. H. De los Dias West Indian Negro Proverbs. Frank Cundall 437 450 452 455 Hayti Summary of the History of Hayti. Jenner Bastien Hayti under the Yankee Heel. Jean L. Barau Hayti. Grace Hutchins People without Shoes. Langston Hughes A Note on Haytian Culture. Ludovic M. Lacombe The King of Gonaives. Jacques Boulanger 459 465 468 468 470 471 Cuba Racial Prejudice in Cuba The Situation of the Negro in Cuba. M. Pérez-Medina Negro Workers starving in Cuba. Charles Alexander 473 478 483 Barbados The Negro in Barbados. Gordon O. Bell 484 Trinidad Folklore in Trinidad. Olgo Comma 486 Grenada “White Trash” in the Antilles. H. Gordon Andrews Influences which determine the Future of the West Indien. Wilfred A. Redhead 488 493 Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Negroes. Hazel Ballance Eadie Virgin Islands. From The Afro-American 494 496 Guadeloupe The Child in Guadeloupe. E. Flavia-Leopold 497 British Guiana The Negro and his Descendants in British Guiana, Part I. Hildred Britton The Negro and his Descendants in British Guiana, Part II. A.A. Thorne, M.A. 500 517 Brazil Black and White in Brazil. Benjamin Péret The Negroes in Brazil. Ildefonso P. Valdés A Letter on the Social Role of the Half-Caste. V. Latorre-Bara 510 514 517 Uruguay Proclamation of Emancipation in Uruguay The Negro Race in Uruguay. Elemo Cabral Rituals and “Candombes”. Marcellino Bottaro 518 518 519 EUROPE Slavery Papers. Edgell Rickword Missionaries in Africa. Newton A. Rowe Pushkin and Peter the Great’s Negro. Harold Acton A Glimpse at some of the Obstacles to Negro Progress. Holman Jameson There is no “White Superiority”. Anthony Butts Colour Bar. Nancy Cunard Race Prejudice in England. From The Negro Worker Colour Bar Notoriety in Great Britain. Prince A. Ademola Manifestation of British Empire Spirit From the European Press Sambo Without Tears. George Sadoul Murderous Humanitarism. The Surrealist Group Race and Nations. Léon Pierre-Quint 524 535 539 544 548 551 554 556 557 559 570 574 575 AFRICA Ethnographical Map of Negro Africa. Raymond Michelet African Empires and Civilisations. Raymond Michelet African Exploration. Arthur A. Schomburg The Solidarity of the African Race. Prince A.Ademola, B.A. Ethiopia Today. George Padmore A Short Historical Survey of Madagascar. J. J. Rabearivelo A Note on Leo Frobenius. Ezra Pound Negro Influence in Morocco. Professor E. Westermarck The Best Friend in Dahomay. Professor M. Herskovits Pre-British Gold Coast. Tete Kwesi Orgle Klao Date, Kroo Proverbs. Dr. Thargues Sie Ewe Proverbs and Riddles. Alaga and Zagbeto. R.C. Nathaniels Hausa Writing Baronga Proverbs A Letter about Arusha. Norman Douglas “Clocking” in the Zulu Tongue. A. V. Lester A Zulu Wedding. E. Kohn From an African Notebook. William Plomer The young Race of the Veld. Beatrice Hastings 584 585 603 609 612 618 623 624 627 634 637 637 642 644 645 647 648 649 651 II Negro Sculpture and Ethnology 37 Plates of West African Sculpture The Term “Negro Art” is essentially a non-African Concept. Ladislas Szecsi Bambara Sculpture. Carl Kjersmeier The Ancient Bronzes of Black Africa. Charles Ratton Essay on the Styles in Stautary of the Belgian Congo. Henri Lavachery Eight Drawings of Congo Masks from Tervueren Museum. Raymond Michelet 47 Plates of Congo Sculpture Some Museums containing African Art Magic and Initiation in the Ubanghi-Shari. B.P. Feuilloley “Primitive” Life and Mentality. Raymond Michelet 656 679 682 684 687 696 706 732 734 739 III White-Manning in West Africa. T.K.Utchay The kind of Christianity we have in Akan and Akwapim Districts. H.Kwesi Oku Britain and the Africans. Ladipo Odunsi Extracts from “The Anglo-Fanti”. Kobina Sekyi Liberia: Slave or Free? Ben N. Azikiwe Black Civilisation and White. George S. Schuyler Under King’s Leopold Domination Experience of a Black Man with the Missionaries Letter from Nigeria Letter from a Worker in South Africa. From The Negro Worker Letter on South Africa. Ivon Navarro Extracts from a pamphlet circulating in Belgian Congo A Negro Empire: Belgium. E. Stiers French Imperialism at Work in Madagascar. G. Coterne and F. Jourdain Kenya. Johnston Kenyatta 762 769 772 774 780 784 788 790 791 792 793 794 795 801 803 Pass Laws in South Africa. George Padmore How Britain governs the Blacks. George Padmore White Man’s Justice in Africa. George Padmore Imperialist Terror in South Africa. E. T. Mofutsanyana The White Man is killing Africa. Raymond Michelet 807 809 813 818 822 It will be noted that some only of the articles carry the author’s photograph. These are the writings of Negroes or of those of Negro descent.
