"Girl, colored" and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010

As the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP,) The Crisis is one of the longest running African American journals in the history of American publishing. Throughout its century-long publication, The Crisis has made immeasurable contributions to the careers of several female African American writers, including Anita Scott Coleman, Mary Church Terrell, and Jessie Fauset. This anthology collects all of the short stories published in The Crisis by African American women during the magazine's first century of publication, offering an historical, literary, and cultural perspective on the lives of African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.

Emmy / Jessie Fauset -- My house and a glimpse of my life therein / Jessie Fauset -- His motto / Lottie Burrell Dixon -- Hope deferred / Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar -- The fair good Willa / Minnibell Jones -- Breaking the color-line / Annie McCary -- Polly's hack ride / Mrs. Emma E. Butler -- "Bits": a Christmas story / Helen G. Ricks -- Mammy / Adeline F. Ries -- "There was one time!": a story of spring / Jessie Fauset -- Aunt Calline's sheaves / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Leonora's conversion / Edna May Harrold -- A legend of the blue jay / Ruth Anna Fisher -- At the turn of the road / Helen G. Ricks -- A fairy story / Carry S. Bond -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Fauset -- El Tisico / Anita Scott Coleman -- The sleeper wakes: a novelette / Jessie Fauset -- The foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Two Americans / Florence Lewis Bentley -- Buyers of dreams: a story / Ethel M. Caution -- The foolish and the wise: Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- The yellow tree / DeReath Byrd Busey -- Aunt Dinah and Dilsey discuss the problem / Mary Church Terrell -- To a wild rose / Ottie B. Graham -- Double trouble / Jessie Fauset -- Blue aloes: a story / Ottie B. Graham -- The bewitched sword / Ola Calhoun Morehead -- "There never fell a night so dark" / Mary Louise French -- Three dogs and a rabbit / Anita Scott Coleman --

The prison-bound / Marita Bonner -- In houses of glass / Ethel R. Clark -- One boy's story / Joseph M. Andrew [Marita Bonner] -- Drab rambles / Marita O. Bonner -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owes -- Days / Brenda Ray Moryck -- House of hark back: a tale for young folk / Effie Lee Newsome -- Anna / Iva L. Cotton -- The Papaloi / Annice Calland -- White lilacs / Edith L. Yancy -- Deepening dusk / Edith Manuel Durham -- Honor / Lillian Beverton Mason -- The prodigal / Laura D. Nichols -- The greater gift: a Christmas story / Marie Louise French -- The three mosquitoes: a story of marriage and birth / Anne Du Bignon -- The doctor's dilemma: a story of tuberculosis / Anne Du Bignon -- The farm on the eastern shore: a story of work / Anne Du Bignon -- Two old women a-shopping go!: a story of man, marriage and poverty / Anita Scott Coleman -- The thoughts of a colored girl: a story of realization / Margaret K. Cunningham -- Black Mestiza / Madelen C. Lane -- Black velvet / Juanita DeShield -- Emergency exit / Carol Cotton -- The farmer / Violet G. Haywood -- Masquerade / Isabel M. Thompson -- Serena sings / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Echo of the distant drum / Carol B. Cotton -- The conversion of Harvey / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Mob madness / Marion Cuthbert -- Lady Blanche and the Christ: after the manner of the mediaeval tale / Octavia Beatrice Wynbush --

The return of a modern prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush -- The Christmas candle / Octavia B. Wynbush -- March wind / Edna Quinn -- Conjure man / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Bride of God / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Hate is nothing / Joyce N. Reed [Marita Bonner] -- Ticket home: a Christmas story / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Our house / Elisabeth Tomas -- The coon hunt / Thelma Rea Thurston -- Call it social security / Edwina Streeter Dixon -- The whipping / Marita Bonner -- Hongry fire / Marita Bonner -- Plantation stain / Corinne Dean -- Patch quilt / Marita Bonner -- Sunday / Lucille Boehm -- Horns and tails / Corinne Dean -- Girl, colored / Marian Minus -- Joe Charles King / Vera L. Williams -- "Behold I stand..." / Violet C. Haywood -- Grazing in good pastures / Margaret Williams -- One true love / Marita Bonner -- Boyzie / Lucille Boehm -- On Saturday the siren sounds at noon / Ann Petry -- Heart against the wind / Gwendolyn Williams -- "Whatsoever things are lovely" / Florence McDowell -- At my table / Teresa O'Hiser -- Olaf and his girl friend / Ann Petry -- The black streak / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Like a winding sheet / Ann Petry -- It's never too early: a trilogy / Thelma Thurston Gorman -- They know not what they do / Mary J. Kyle -- Ghetto sounds / Hazel James -- Touch me! / Hazel James -- The lions and the rabbits: a fable / Mary Carter Smith.