The sermon in the cradle (W. E. B. Du Bois) A carol of color (Mary Jenness) The Christmas reunion down at Martinsville (Augustus M. Hodges) The children's Christmas (Alice Moore Dunbar) Christmas Eve story (Fanny Jackson Coppin) Mollie's best Christmas gift (Mary E. Lee) A Christmas story (Carrie Jane Thomas) Fannie May's Christmas (Katherine Davis Tillman) Elsie's Christmas (Salem Tutt Whitney) General Washington: a Christmas story (Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins) The autobiography of a dollar bill (Lelia Plummer) Mirama's Christmas test (Timothy Thomas Fortune) A Christmas party that prevented a split in the church (Margaret Black) Three men and a woman (Augustus M. Hodges) It came to pass: a Christmas story (Bruce L. Reynolds) A Christmas Journey (Louis Lorenzo Redding) Uncle U.S. Santa Claus (James Conway Jackson) The devil spends Christmas Eve in Dixie (Andrew Dobson) One Christmas Eve (Langston Hughes) Santa Claus is a white man (John Henrik Clarke) Merry Christmas Eve (Adele Hamlin) White Christmas (Valena Minor Williams).
Summary:
"A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era"-- Provided by publisher.
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