Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-524) and index.
Preface / Craig Gable -- Introduction / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- 1. Hope Deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- 2. The Closing Door / Angelina Weld Grimke -- 3. Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- 4. The Comet / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 5. The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates / Leila Amos Pendleton -- 6. The Foolish and the Wise: Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. Meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- 7. Becky / Jean Toomer -- 8. Esther / Jean Toomer -- 9. Vignettes of the Dusk / Eric Walrond -- 10. Blue Aloes / Ottie B. Graham -- 11. Slackened Caprice / Ottie B. Graham -- 12. The City of Refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- 13. The Golden Penknife / S. Miller Johnson -- 14. Mademoiselle Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- 15. Grist in the Mill / Wallace Thurman -- 16. Hannah Byde / Dorothy West -- 17. Muttsy / Zora Neale Hurston -- 18. The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- 19. Cordelia the Crude / Wallace Thurman -- 20. Smoke, Lilies and Jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- 21. Wedding Day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- 22. City Love / Eric Walrond -- 23. Lynching for Profit / George S. Schuyler -- 24. Highball / Claude McKay -- 25. Game / Eugene Gordon -- 26. Masks / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- 27. Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- 28. He Must Think It Out / Florida Ruffin Ridley -- 29. Anthropoi / John F. Matheus -- 30. Prologue to a Life / Dorothy West -- 31. Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- 32. Door-Stops / May Miller -- 33. Cross Crossings Cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman -- 34. Why Adam Ate the Apple / Mercedes Gilbert -- 35. The Needle's Point / J. Saunders Redding -- 36. Crazy Mary / Claude McKay -- 37. His Last Day / Chester Himes -- 38. A Summer Tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- 39. Barrel Staves / Arna Bontemps -- 40. Why, You Reckon / Langston Hughes -- 41. Spanish Blood / Langston Hughes -- 42. John Archer's Nose / Rudolph Fisher -- 43. Mob Madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert -- 44. Gesture / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- 45. Pope Pius the Only / Richard Bruce Nugent -- 46. Silt / Richard Wright -- 47. The Return of a Modern Prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush -- 48. Hate Is Nothing / Marita Bonner -- 49. The Whipping / Marita Bonner -- 50. A Modern Fable / Chester Himes -- 51. A Matter of Record / Ted Poston -- 52. Girl, Colored / Marian Minus -- Sources for Additional Short Stories by the Authors -- Award-Winning Short Fiction from Opportunity and Crisis -- Selected Resources for the Harlem Renaissance