Ebony and Topaz: a Collectanea (1927) (Full-text)
Ebony and Topaz
Edited by Charles S. Johnson
PUBLISHED BY Opportunity, A Journal of Negro Life
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
17 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK
1927
FOREWORD:
"If every life has pages vacant still whereon a man may write the thing he will ," it is also true that in many little-considered lives there are pages whereon matter of great interest has already been written, if the appraising eye can only reach it.
So with the recently developed discoveries of the wealth of material for artistic and intellectual development in the life, manners, and customs of the Negro and his unique and
all-too-frequently unappreciated and unasked contribution to our American self- consciousness
This challenging collection focuses, as it were , the appraising eyes of white folks on the Negro's life and of Negroes on their own life and development in what seems to me a new and stimulating way.
Great emotional waves may not be stirred by taking cognizance of the performances of Negroes in art and literature, but faithfulness to an ideal of proportion or fair play makes us uneasy lest through ignorance we miss something by straying into the tangles of prejudice.
Most of us claim to recognize Miss Millay's thought that
"He whose soul is flat, the sky
Will fall in on him by and by.”
and will follow with zest the explorations of appraising eyes which have been made available to us in attractive form on these pages .
L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD .
CONTENTS
FOREWORD By L. Hollingsworth Wood
INTRODUCTION - By Charles S. Johnson
JUMBY- A Story by Arthur Huff Fauset
ON THE ROAD ONE DAY, LORD - By Paul Green.
DUSK-A Poem by Mae V. Cowdery
DIVINE AFFLATUS -A Poem by Jessie Fauset
GENERAL DRUMS -A Story by John Matheus
GULLAH - By Julia Peterki
REQUIEM - A Poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson.
FORECLOSURE-A Poem by Sterling A. Brown
DREAMER- A Poem by Langston Hughes
THE DUNES -A Poem by E. Merrill Root
EIGHTEENTH STREET-An Anthology in Color by Nathan Ben Young
JOHN HENRY-A Negro Legend by Guy B. Johnson
THINGS SAID WHEN HE WAS GONE-A Poem by Blanche Taylor
Dickinson
APRIL IS ON THE WAY-A Poem by Alice Dunbar Nelson
THE FIRST ONE- A Play in One Act by Zora Neale Hurston
THIS PLACE-A Poem by Donald Jeffrey Hayes
THREE POEMS- By Countee Cullen
NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD SONG- By Dorothy Scarborough
LA PERLA NEGRA- By Edna Worthley Underwood
THE NEGRO OF THE JAZZ BAND -Translated from the Spanish of
Jose M. Salaverria by Dorothy Peterson
IDOLATRY- A Poem by Arna Bontemps
TO CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY-A poem by Angelina W. Grimke
JUAN LATINO, MAGISTER LATINUS - By Arthur A. Schomburg
AND ONE SHALL LIVE IN TWO-A Poem by Jonathan H. Brooks
A POEM - By Phillis Wheatley
THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RACE PREJUDICE -By Ellsworth Faris
FACSIMILES of Original Manuscripts of Paul Laurence Dunbar
SYBIL WARNS HER SISTER-A Poem by Anne Spencer
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN RACE PROBLEM—
By Eugene Kinckle Jones
ARABESQUE-A Poem by Frank Horne
PHANTOM COLOR LINE- By T. Arnold Hill
THE CHANGING STATUS OF THE MULATTO — By E. B. Reuter
SUFFRAGE- By William Pickens
CONSECRATION - A Poem by Lois Augusta Cuglar
UNDERGRADUATE VERSE- Fisk University
OUR LITTLE RENAISSANCE- By Alain Locke
MY HEART HAS KNOWN ITS WINTER-A Poem by Arna Bontemps
RACIAL SELF- EXPRESSION- By E. Franklin Frazier
OUR GREATEST GIFT TO AMERICA- by George S. Schuyler
EFFIGY A Poem by Lewis Alexander
THE NEGRO ACTOR'S DEFICIT- By Theophilus Lewis
TWO POEMS - By Edward S. Silvera
DUNCANSON- By W. P. Dabney
YOUTH -A Poem by Frank Horne
THE PROSPECTS OF BLACK BOURGEOISIE— By Abram Harris
TO A YOUNG POET-A Poem by George Chester Morse
A PAGE OF UNDERGRADUATE VERSE- Shaw University, Lincoln University, Tougaloo College, Howard University
VERISIMILITUDE-A Story by John P. Davi
MRS . BAILEY PAYS THE RENT-By Ira DeA. Reid
A SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM —A Poem by Helene Johnson
TOKENS -A Story by Gwendolyn Bennett
A PAGE OF UNDERGRADUATE VERSE-Tougaloo College, Cleveland
College of Western Reserve University
THE RETURN-A Poem by Arna Bontemps
I -By Brenda Ray Moryck
A GLORIOUS COMPANY - By Allison Davis
A STUDENT I KNOW-A Poem by Jonathan H. Brooks
AND I PASSED BY- By Joseph Maree Andrew
WHO'S WHO