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Tables of Contents for The Messenger Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xix
Sondra Katbryn Wilson
PART ONE: POETRY
Arna Bontemps
Song
3
1
Woodnote
3
1
Countee P. Cullen
Pagan Prayer
4
1
Angelina W. Grimke
To Miss Harriet E. Riggs
5
1
Archibald H. Grimke
Her Thirteen Black Soldiers
6
3
Walter Everette Hawkins
Too Much Religion
9
1
The Bursting of the Chrysalis
9
1
Here and Hereafter
10
1
Love's Unchangeableness
10
1
The Voice of the Wilderness
10
3
Credo
13
1
Where Air of Freedom Is
14
2
Thomas Millard Henry
Ruthlessville
16
1
The Song of Psyche
16
1
The Song
17
1
Dreams Are the Workman's Friends
17
1
My Motive
18
1
Countee Cullen
18
1
Sphinxes
18
1
That Poison, Late Sleep
19
2
Langston Hughes
Grant Park
21
1
Gods
21
1
Prayer for a Winter Night
21
1
Minnie Sings Her Blues
22
1
Formula
23
1
Poem for Youth
23
1
The Naughty Child
24
1
Desire
24
1
Georgia Douglas Johnson
To Love
25
1
Africa
25
1
Your Voice Keeps Ringing Down the Day
25
1
Paradox
26
1
Romance
26
1
Promise
26
1
Toy
27
1
Prejudice
27
1
Crucifixion
27
1
Appassionata
28
1
Disenthralment
28
1
Loss
28
1
Karma
29
1
Helene Johnson
Fiat Lux
30
1
Love in Midsummer
31
1
S. Miller Johnson
Variations on a Black Theme
32
4
Claude Mckay
If We Must Die
36
1
Labor's Day
36
1
Birds of Prey
37
1
R. Bruce Nugent
Query
38
1
William Pickens
Up, Sons of Freedom!
39
2
Wallace Thurman
Confession
41
4
PART TWO: FICTION AND PLAYS
Robert W. Bagnall
The Unquenchable Fire
45
8
Anita Scott Coleman
Silk Stockings
53
10
Langston Hughes
The Young Glory of Him
63
7
Bodies in the Moonlight
70
6
The Little Virgin
76
7
Zora Neale Hurston
The Eatonville Anthology
83
11
Theophilus Lewis
Seven Years for Rachel
94
16
A Deserter from Armageddon
110
18
Brief Biography of Fletcher J. Mosely
128
10
The Bird in the Bush
138
10
S. Miller Johnson
The Golden Penknife
148
21
William Moore
The Spring of '65
169
29
Eric D. Walrond
Snakes
198
Dorothy West
Hannah Byde
182
8
Plays
George S. Schuyler
The Yellow Peril: A One-Act Play
190
11
At the Coffee House
201
6
PART THREE: BOOK AND THEATER REVIEWS
William N. Colson
Shoddyism Called History
207
4
Phases of Du Bois
211
5
W. A. Domingo
The Brass Check: A Review
216
2
Floyd J. Calvin
The Book of American Negro Poetry
218
3
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Harlem Shadows
221
2
Countee Cullen
Chords and Dischords
223
2
Nella Larsen Imes
Certain People of Importance
225
2
Robert Bagnall
Fire in the Flint
227
3
Wallace Thurman
A Stranger at the Gates: A Review of Nigger Heaven
230
3
A Thrush at Eve with an Atavistic Wound
233
3
Black Harvest
236
2
Theophilus Lewis
The Weary Blues
238
3
Porgy
241
4
All God's Chillun' Still Got Wings
245
6
Reflections of An Alleged Dramatic Critic
251
5
My Red Rag
256
5
PART FOUR: ESSAYS
Literary and Cultural Essays
Irene M. Gaines
Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature
261
10
Eric D. Walrond
The Black City
271
3
William Pickens
Art and Propaganda
274
3
Thomas Millard Henry
Old School of Negro ``Critics'' Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar
277
5
Willis Richardson
Propaganda in the Theatre
282
4
Theophilus Lewis
Same Old Blues
286
6
Paul Roberson
An Actor's Wanderings and Hopes
292
2
Chandler Owen
The Black and Tan Cabaret---America's Most Democratic Institution
294
4
Thomas L. G. Oxley
Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926
298
10
J. A. Rogers
Who Is the New Negro, and Why?
308
5
Social and Political Essays
Chandler Owen
The Failure of Negro Leadership
313
4
Du Bois on Revolution
317
5
A Voice from the Dead!
322
7
Black Mammies
329
3
W. A. Domingo
Socialism the Negroes' Hope
332
3
``If We Must Die''
335
3
A. Philip Randolph
The Negro in Politics
338
10
Reply to Marcus Garvey
348
10
J. A. Rogers
The West Indies: Their Political, Social, and Economic Condition
358
16
George S. Schuyler
Economics and Politics
374
5
Emmett J. Scott
The Business Side of a University
379
5
Zora Neale Hurston
The Hue and Cry about Howard University
384
11
Wallace Thurman
In the Name of Purity
395
3
Quoth Brigham Young---This Is the Place
398
6
Alice Dunbar---Nelson
Woman's Most Serious Problem
404
5
Biographical Notes of Contributors
409
8
Bibliography
417