The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Langston Hughes

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ISBN 9780316380317
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Publisher Back Bay Books
Year of publication 1969
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