Storytime

Storytime Editor's Note and Introduction of "The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1899 - 1967" and "The Sheriff's Children" by Charles W. Chesnutt

Storytime "The Scapegoat" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Storytime "Fern" Joan Toomer

"Miss Cynthie" is a short story, published in 1933 in Story Magazine, by Rudolph Fisher.

Short Stories by Black Authors: "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps and "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "Tobacco" by DaMaris B. Hill (1634 - 1639) and "Black Women's Labor" by Brenda E. Stevenson (1639 - 1644).

Short Stories by Black Authors: "The Guilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Revolt of the Evil Fairies" by Ted Poston. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "Anthony Johnson, Colony of Virginia" by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (1644 - 1649) and "The Black Family" by Heather Andrea Williams   (1649 - 1654).

Storytime: Short Stories by Black Authors: "Almos' a Man" by Richard Wright and "Marihuana and a Pistol" by Chester B. Himes. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "Unfree Labor" by Jericho Brown (1654 - 1659), "Upon Arrival" poem by Jericho brown, and "Elizabeth Keye" by Jennifer L. Morgan (1659 - 1664).

Storytime: Short Stories by Black Authors: "The Beach Umbrella" by Cyrus Colter and "The Richer, The Poorer" by Dorothy West. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "The Virginia Law on Baptism" by Jemar Tisby (1664 - 1669) and "The Royal African Company" by David A. Love (1669 - 1674).

Short Stories by Black Authors: "The Almost White Boy" by Willard Motley and "Afternoon into Night" by Katherine Dunham. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "Bacon's Rebellion" by Heather C. McGhee (1674 - 1679), and "The Virgina Law That Forbade Bearing Arms; or The Virginia Law That Forbade Armed Self-Defense" by Kellie Carter Jackson (1679 - 1684)

"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison and "Come Home Early, Chile" by Owen Dodson. "Four Hundred Souls" excerpts: "The Code Noir" by Laurence ralph (1684 - 1689), and "The Germantown Petition Against Slavery" by Christopher J. Lebron (1689 - 1694).