Research Catalog

Title

Ebony and topaz : a collectanea / edited by Charles S. Johnson.

Publication

• New York : Published by Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, [1927]
• ©1927

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
• Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979
• Salaverría, José María, 1873-1940
• Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1873-1956
• Wheatley Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784
• Alexander, Lewis, 1900-1945
• Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973
• Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945
• Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
• Cowdery, Mae V. (Mae Virginia), approximately 1909-1953
• Cuglar, Lois Augusta
• Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
• Dabney, Wendell Phillips, 1865-1952
• Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973
• Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 1896-1972
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935
• Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953
• Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983
• Fauset, Jessie Redmon
• Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962
• Green, Paul, 1894-1981
• Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958
• Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963
• Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 1904-
• Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Horne, Frank
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966
• Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991
• Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954
• Lewis, Theophilus, 1891-1974
• Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
• Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983
• Morse, George Chester
• Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961
• Pickens, William, 1881-1954
• Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968
• Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946
• Root, E. Merrill (Edward Merrill), 1895-1973
• Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
• Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
• Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977
• Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937
• Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975
• Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961
• Young, Nathan B., 1862-1933

Description

164, [2] pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 31 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Literature > Black authors
• American literature > African American authors
• African Americans
• African American
• Black author

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-4780, no. 9.

Contents

• Foreword / L. Hollingsworth Wood -- Introduction / Charles S. Johnson -- Jumby, a story / Arthur Huff Fauset -- On the road one day, Lord / Paul Green -- Dusk, a poem / Mae V. Cowdery -- Divine afflatus, a poem / Jessie Fauset -- General drums, a story / John Matheus -- Gullah / Julia Peterkin -- Requiem, a poem / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Foreclosure, a poem / Sterling A. Brown -- Dreamer, a poem / Langston Hughes -- The dunes, a poem / E. Merrill Root -- Eighteenth Street, an anthology in color / Nathan Ben Young -- John Henry, a Negro legend / Guy B. Johnson -- Things said when he was gone, a poem / Blanche Taylor Dickinson -- April is on the way, a poem / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- The first one, a play in one act / Zora Neale Hurston -- This place, a poem / Donald Jeffrey Hayes -- Three poems / Countee Cullen -- New light on an old song / Dorothy Scarborough -- La perla negra / Edna Worthley Underwood -- The Negro of the jazz band / translated from the Spanish of Jose M. Salaverria by Dorothy Peterson -- Idolatry, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- To Clarissa Scott Delany, a poem / Angelina W. Grimke -- Juan Latino, magister Latinus / Arthur A. Schomburg -- And one shall live in two, a poem / Jonathan H. Brooks -- A poem / Phillis Wheatley -- The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The natural history of race prejudice / Ellsworth Faris -- Facsimiles of original manuscripts by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sybil warns her sister, a poem / Anne Spencer -- Some observations on the American race problem / Eugene Kinckle Jones -- Arabesque, a poem / Frank Horne --
• Phantom color line / T. Arnold Hill -- The changing status of the mulatto / E.B. Reuter -- Suffrage / William Pickens -- Consecration, a poem / Lois Augusta Cuglar -- Undergraduate verse, Fiske University -- Our little renaissance / Alain Locke -- My heart has known its winter, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- Racial self-expression / E. Franklin Frazier -- Our greatest gifts to America / George S. Schuyler -- Effigy, a poem / Lewis Alexander -- The Negro actor's deficit / Theophilus Lewis -- Two poems / Edward S. Silvera -- Duncancon / W.P. Dabney -- Youth, a poem / Frank Horne -- The prospects of a black bourgeoisie / Abram Harris -- To a young poet, a poem / George Chester Morse -- A page of undergraduate verse, Shaw University, Lincoln University, Tougaloo College, Howard University -- Verisimilitude, a story / John P. Davis -- Mrs. Bailey pays the rent / Ira DeA. Reid -- A sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, a poem / Helene Johson -- Tokens, a story / Gwendolyn Bennett -- A page of undergraduate verse, Tougaloo College, Cleveland College of Western Reserve University -- The return, a poem / Arna Bontemps -- I / Brenda Ray Moryck -- A glorious company / Allison Davis -- A student I know, a poem / Jonathan H. Brooks -- And I passed by / Joseph Maree Andrew -- Who's who.

Call Number

Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony and topaz)

LCCN

28003956

OCLC

1177914

Title

Ebony and topaz : a collectanea / edited by Charles S. Johnson.

Publisher

New York : Published by Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, [1927]

Copyright Date

©1927

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-4780, no. 9.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has three copies of this book. Copy 2 in Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz) (no accession #) includes a manuscript inscription in black ink by Arthur A. Schomburg. It's a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection that was part of the JBH General Research & Reference collection in Sc+ 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz), transferred to the Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division in Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony, and topaz) August 25, 2023. The copy in Sc Rare+ F 82-72 ) (no accession #) is also a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection, and contains an inscription from former owner: "To Sallis & Ernst from Gladys and [L/T]yna, Christmas 1927."

Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-4780, no. 9.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956, editor.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979.

Salaverría, José María, 1873-1940.

Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1873-1956.

Wheatley Peters, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Alexander, Lewis, 1900-1945. Effigy.

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Idolatry.

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. My heart has known its winter.

Brooks, Jonathan Henderson, 1905-1945. And one shall live in two.

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989. Foreclosure.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point.

Cowdery, Mae V. (Mae Virginia), approximately 1909-1953. Dusk.

Cuglar, Lois Augusta. Consecration.

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Song no gentleman would sing to any lady.

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Self criticism.

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Extenuation to certain critics.

Dabney, Wendell Phillips, 1865-1952. Duncanson.

Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973. Verisimilitude.

Dickinson, Blanche Taylor, 1896-1972. Things said when he was gone.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935. April is on the way.

Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953. Natural history of race prejudice.

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Jumby.

Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Divine afflatus.

Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962. Racial self-expression.

Green, Paul, 1894-1981. On the road one day, lord.

Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958. To Clarissa Scott Delany.

Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963. Prospects of a black bourgeoisie.

Hayes, Donald Jeffrey, 1904- This place.

Hill, T. Arnold (Thomas Arnold), 1888-1947. Phantom color line.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Dreamer.

Horne, Frank. Arabesque.

Horne, Frank. Youth.

Hurston, Zora Neale. First one.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966. Requiem.

Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991. John Henry, a Negro legend.

Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954. Some observations on the American race problem.

Lewis, Theophilus, 1891-1974. Negro actor's deficit.

Locke, Alain, 1885-1954. Our little renaissance.

Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983. General drums.

Morse, George Chester. To a young poet.

Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961. Gullah.

Pickens, William, 1881-1954. Suffrage.

Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968. Mrs. Bailey pays the rent.

Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946. Changing status of the mulatto.

Root, E. Merrill (Edward Merrill), 1895-1973. Dunes.

Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935. New light on an old song.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938. Juan Latino, magister Latinus.

Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Our greatest gifts to America.

Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Unknown soldier.

Silvera, Edward, 1906-1937. Old maid.

Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975. Sybil warns her sister.

Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961. Perla negra.

Young, Nathan B., 1862-1933. Eighteenth street, an anthology in color.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Other Form:

Online version: Ebony and topaz. New York : Published by Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life : National Urban League, ©1927 (OCoLC)1394137125

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 810.8-J (Johnson, C. Ebony and topaz)

Sc Rare+ F 82-72