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The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter
Wesley, Dorothy Porter
African Americans -- Bibliography
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Hughes, Langston. Five plays. Edited with an introduction by
Webster Smalley. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1963]
258 p. PS3515.U274A19 1963
Contents.—Mulatto.—Soul gone home.—Little Ham.—Simply
heavenly.—Tambourines to glory.
1220
Jones, LeRoi. Dutchman and The slave, two plays. New York,
Morrow, 1964. 88 p. [PS3519.O4545D8] [TR: PS3552.A583D8 Baraka,
Imamu Amiri]
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Locke, Alain L., _and_ Montgomery Gregory, _eds._ Plays of Negro
life; a source-book of native American drama. Decorations and
illustrations by Aaron Douglas. New York, Harper, 1927. 430 p.
illus., plates. PS627.N4L6
"Bibliography of Negro drama": p. 424-430.
1222
Peters, Paul, _and_ George Sklar. Stevedore, a play in three
acts. New York, Covici, Friede [c1934] 123 p. PS3531.E826S7 1934
1223
Richardson, Willis, _comp._ Plays and pageants from the life of
the Negro. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1930] 373 p.
illus., plates. PS627.N4R5
Contents.—Plays: Sacrifice, by Thelma M. Duncan. Antar of
Araby, by Maud Cuney-Hare. Ti Yette, by John Matheus. Graven
images, by May Miller. Riding the goat, by May Miller. The
black horseman, by Willis Richardson. The king’s dilemma, by
Willis Richardson. The house of sham, by Willis
Richardson.—Pageants: Two races, by Inez M. Burke. Out of the
dark, by Dorothy C. Guinn. The light of the women, by Frances
Gunner. Ethiopia at the bar of justice, by Edward J. McCoo.
1224
Richardson, Willis, _and_ May Miller, _eds._ Negro history in
thirteen plays. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1935] 333 p.
PS627.N4R47
1225
Sackler, Howard O. The great white hope. New York, Dial Press,
1968. 264 p. PS3537.A156G7
In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Negro heavyweight
champion of the world. This is an epic drama based on his
life.
1226
Torrence, Frederic R. Granny Maumee, The rider of dreams, Simon
the Cyrenian; plays for a Negro theater. New York, Macmillan,
1917. 111 p. PS3539.O63G7 1917
1227
Wright, Richard. Native son (the biography of a young American),
a play in ten scenes by Paul Green and Richard Wright, from the
novel by Richard Wright. A Mercury production by Orson Welles,
presented by Orson Welles and John Houseman. New York, Harper
[c1941] 148 p. front. PS3545.R815N25
Includes songs with music.
25—LITERATURE—Poetry
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Adoff, Arnold, _comp._ I am the darker brother; an anthology of
modern poems by Negro Americans. Drawings by Benny Andrews.
Foreword by Charlemae Rollins. New York, Macmillan [1968] 128 p.
illus. PS591.N4A65
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Bontemps, Arna W., _ed._ American Negro poetry. New York, Hill
and Wang [1963] 197 p. PS591.N4B58
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