PRIMARY WORKS, Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Publications in Anthologies and Books:
"Nocturn," in The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922; revised, 1931.
"Moon Tonight" and "Song," in Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927 and Yearbook of American Poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite. Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1927, pp. 31, 32.
"Advice," "Fantasy," "Hatred," "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas," "Quatrains," "Secret," "Sonnet I," "Sonnet II," "To a Dark Girl," and "Your Songs," in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, edited by Countee Cullen. New York: Harper, 1927.
"Tokens," in Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea edited by Charles S. Johnson. New York, 1927, pp. 149-150.
Publications in Magazines and Journals:
Poetry:
"Heritage," Opportunity, 1 (December 1923): 371.
"To Usward," Crisis, 28 (May 1924):19 AND Opportunity, 2 (May 1924): 143-144.
"Wind," Opportunity, 2 (November 1924): 335.
"On a Birthday," Opportunity, 3 (September 1925): 276.
"Street Lamps in Early Spring," Opportunity, 4 (May 1926): 152.
"Hatred," Opportunity, 4 (June 1926): 190.
"Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas," Opportunity, 4 (July 1926): 225.
"Song," "Dear Things," and "Dirge," Palms, 4 (October 1926): 21-22.
"Epitaph," Opportunity. 12 (March 1934): 76.



Essays:
"The Future of the Negro in Art," Howard University Record, 19 (December 1924): 65-66.
"Negroes: Inherent Craftsmen," Howard University Record, 19 (February 1925): 172.
"The Ebony Flute," column in Opportunity, 4 (August 1926)-6 (May 1928).
"The American Negro Paints," Southern Workman, 57 (January 1928): 111-112.
"Never the Twain Shall Meet," review of Salah and His American by Leland Hall, Opportunity, 12 (March 1934): 92.
"I Go to Camp," Opportunity, 12 (August 1934): 241-243.
"Rounding the Century: Story of the Colored Orphan Asylum and Association for the Benefit of Colored Children in New York City," Crisis, 42 (June 1935): 180-181, 188.
SECONDARY WORKS
Daniel, Walter C. and Sandra Y. Govan. "Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, pp. 3-9.
Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997. Fax, Elton C. Seventeen Black Artists. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971. pp. 23-24, 173.
Hull, Gloria. "Black Women Poets from Wheatley to Walker," in Negro American Literature Forum, 9(Fall 1975): 91-96.
Johnson, Abby Arthur and Ronald Maberry Johnson. Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the 20th Century. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. pp. 55-56.
Johnson, Charles S. "A Note on the New Literary Movement," Opportunity 4(March 1926): 80.
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem was in Vogue. New York: Knopf, 1981, pp. 94-95, 105.
McDonald, William F. Federal Relief Administration and the Arts. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969.
Perry, Margaret. Silence to the Drums: a Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.
Porter, James A. Modern Negro Art. New York: Dryden Press, 1943, p. 130.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, pp. 11-15.

Marion Vera Cuthbert




PRIMARY WORKS
Fiction:
"Mob Madness." Crisis. (April 1936): 108, 114.
Nonfiction
"The Dean of Women at Work." Journal of the National Association of College Women. 13-14 (April 1928): 39-44.
Democracy and the Negro. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1936.
Education and Marginality: A Study of the Negro Woman College Graduate. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1987. Originally a PhD. thesis, Columbia University, New York: 1942.
Juliette Derricotte.. New York: Woman's Press, 1933.
"Problems Facing Negro Young Women." Opportunity. (February 1936): 47-49.
Review of Candy, by L.M. Alexander. Opportunity. (December 1934): 379-80.
We Sing America. New York: Friendship Press, 1936.
Poetry
April Grassess. New York: Woman's Press, 1936.
"Black Flute." Opportunity. (May 1928).
"Hands of a Lady at Prayer." World Tomorrow. (February 1929).
Songs of Creation. New York: Woman's Press, 1949.
Secondary Works
Burkett, Randall K., et al, eds. Black Biography 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. vol. 1. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 312.
Doedebe, Frank. Black American Poetry Since 1944: A Preliminary Checklist. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham Bookseller, 1971.
Porter, Dorothy B. North American Negro Poets: A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944. Hattiesburg, Miss.: The Book Farm, 1945.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 72-76.
Rush, Theressa G., Carol F. Myers, and Esther S. Arata. Black American Writers Past and Present: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975.
Sims-Wood, Janet L. The Progress of Afro-American Women. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.



Alice Dunbar-Nelson


PRIMARY WORKS
Prose:
Violets and Other Tales. Boston: Monthly Review Press, 1895.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899.
Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, edited by Gloria Hull. New York: Norton, 1984.

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time, edited by Dunbar Nelson. Harrisburg, Pa.: Douglass, 1914.
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, edited with contributions by Dunbar Nelson. Naperville, Ill.: J. L. Nichols, 1920.
Poetry:
"I Sit and Sew" and other poems, in Negro Poets and Their Poems, edited by Robert T. Kerlin. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1923.
"Snow in October," in Caroling Dusk, edited by Countee Cullen. New York & London: Harper, 1927.
Publications in Magazines and Journals:
Drama:
"The Author's Evening at Home," Smart Set (September 1900): 105-106.
Fiction:
"The Little Mother," Standard Union (Brooklyn), 7 March 1900.
"The Ball Dress," Leslie's Weekly, 93 (12 December 1901).
"Science in Frenchtown--a Short Story," Saturday Evening Mail, 7 December 1912, magazine section: 8-9, 26, 27.
"Hope Deferred," Crisis, 8 (September 1914): 238-242.
Nonfiction:
"Appointed, Some Points of View," Daily Crusader, 2 July 1894.
"Training of Teachers of English," Education, 29 (October 1908): 97-103.
"Wordsworth's Use of Milton's Description of Pandemonium," Modern Language Notes, 24 (April 1909): 124-125.
"What Has the Church to Offer the Men of Today?," A.M.E. Church Review, 30 (July 1913): 5-13.
"The Poet and His Song," in Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race, special issue of the A.M.E. Church Review (October 1914): 5-19.
"People of Color in Louisiana," Journal of Negro History, 1 (October 1916): 361-376; 2 (January 1917): 51-78.
"'Hysteria': The Old Time Mass Meeting Is Dead," Competitor, 1 (February 1920): 32-33.
"Negro Literature for Negro Pupils," Southern Workman, 51 (February 1922): 59-63.
"These 'Colored' United States," Messenger, 6 (August 1924): 244-246; 6 (September 1924): 276-279.
"Woman's Most Serious Problem," Messenger, 9 (March 1927): 73, 86.
"Textbooks in Public Schools: A Job for the Negro Woman," Messenger, 9 (May 1927): 149.
"Facing Life Squarely," Messenger, 9 (July 1927): 219.
"The Negro Looks at an Outworn Tradition," Southern Workman, 57 (May 1928): 195-200.
"The Big Quarterly in Wilmington," Journal Every Evening, (Wilmington, Del.) 27 August 1932, 8-9.
Poetry:
"Rainy Day," Advertiser, (Elmira, N.Y.), 18 September 1898.
"Summit and Vale," Lippincott's (December 1902): 175.
"Violets" and "Sonnet," Crisis, (August 1917): 198.
"To Madame Curie," Public Ledger, (Philadelphia), 21 August 1921.
"Communion," "Music," and "Of Old St. Augustine," Opportunity, 3 (July 1925): 216.
"Forest Fire," Harlem: A Forum of Negre Life, 1 (November 1928): 22.
"Canto--I Sing," American Interracial Peace Committee Bulletin, (October 1929).

SECONDARY WORKS
Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997, 68-72.
Hull, Gloria, ed., "A Chronology," in Give us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. New York: Norton, 1984, 467-469.
Hull, Gloria T. Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Page, James A. and Jae Min Roh, eds., Selected Black American, African and Caribbean Authors: A Bio-Bibliography. Littleton, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1985.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 87-91.
Salem, Dorothy, C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 165-167.
Williams, Ora. "Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance. vol. 50. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 225-232.
Williams, Ora. "Works by and about Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson: A Bibliography," CLA Journal, 19 (March 1976): 322-326.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

PRIIMARY WORKS
BOOKS:
There is Confusion. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924; London: Chapman & Hall, 1924.
Plum Bun. New York: Stokes, 1929; London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.
The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life. New York: Stokes, 1931; London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932.
Comedy, American Style. New York: Stokes, 1933.
"The Gift of Laughter," in The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke. New York: Boni, 1925.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS:
FICTION:
"Emmy," Crisis, 5 (December 1912): 79-87; 5 (January 1913): 134-142.
"My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein," Crisis, 8 (July 1914): 143-145.
"'There Was One Time,' A Story of Spring," Crisis, 13 (April 1917): 272-277; 14 (May 1917): 11-15.
"The Sleeper Wakes," Crisis, 20 (August 1920): 168-173; 20 (September 1920): 226-229; 20 (October 1920): 267-274.
"When Christmas Comes," Crisis, 25 (December 1922): 61-63.
"Double Trouble," Crisis, 26 (August 1923): 155-159; 26 (September 1923): 205-209.

POETRY
"Rondeau," Crisis, 3 (April 1912): 252.
"Again It Is September," Crisis, 14 (September 1917).
"The Return," Crisis, 27 (January 1919): 118.
"Mary Elizabeth," Crisis, 19 (December 1919): 51-56.
"Oriflamme," Crisis, 19 (January 1920): 128.
"La Vie C'est La Vie," Crisis, 24 (July 1922): 124.
"Dilworth Road Revisited," Crisis, 24 (August 1922): 167.
"Song for a Lost Comrade," Crisis, 25 (November 1922): 22.
"Rencontre," Crisis, 27 (January 1924): 122.
"Here's April!," Crisis, 27 (January 1924): 277.
"Rain Fugue," Crisis, 28 (August 1924): 155.
"Stars in Alabama," Crisis, 35 (January 1928): 14.
"'Courage!'He Said," Crisis, 36 (November 1929): 378.

Nonfiction
"New Literature on the Negro," Crisis, 20 (June 1920): 78-83.
"Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress," Crisis, 22 (November 1921): 12-18.
"What Europe Thought of the Pan African Congress," Crisis, 22 (December 1921): 60-69.

SECONDARY WORKS
Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. New York: Facts on File, Inc., Vol. 2, 1997, 76-81.
Gayle, Addison. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America. Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976.
Johnson, Abby Arthur. "Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance," Phylon (June 1978): 143-153.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 102-108.
Starkey, Marion. "Jessie Fauset," Southern Workman (May 1932): 217-220.
Sylvander, Carolyn Wedin. "Jessie Redmon Fauset," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 76-85.
Sylvander, Carolyn Wedin. Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1981.




Angelina Weld Grimke


PRIMARY WORKS
Prose and Poetry:
Adoff, Arnold, ed., Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the Twentieth Century, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Harper & Row, 1973, 15-16.
Barksdale, Richard K. and Kenneth Kinnamon, eds., Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Bontemps, Arna, ed., American Negro Poetry, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Hill & Wang, 1963.
Brown, Sterling, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee, eds., Negro Caravan, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Dryden, 1941.
Cromwell, Otelia, Lorenzo Dow Turner, and Eva B. Dykes, eds., Readings from Negro Authors, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931, 24-26.
Cullen, Countee, ed., Caroling Dusk, includes poems by Grimke. New York: Harper, 1927, 35-46.
Grimke, Angelina W. "The Black Finger," in The New Negro: An Interpretation, edited by Alain Locke. New York: Boni, 1925.
Grimke, Angelina W. "A Mona Lisa," "At April," "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke," and "For the Candle Light," in Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980, edited by erlene Stetson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981, 60-63.
Grimke, Angelina W. Rachel: A Play in Three Acts. Boston: Cornhill, 1920.
Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps, eds., Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949, includes poems by Grimke. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949, 54-58.
Kerlin, Robert T., ed., Negro Poets and Their Poems, revised and enlarged edition, includes poems by Grimke. Washington, D.C.: Associated, 1935, 152-156.
Publications in Magazines and Journals
"To Keep the Memory of Charolotte Forten Grimke," Crisis, 9 (January 1915): 134.
"To the Dunbar High School," Crisis, 13 (March 1917): 222.
"The Closing Door," Birth Control Review, 3 (September 1919).
"The Black Finger," Opportunity, 1 (September 1923): 343.
"Little Grey Dreams," Opportunity, 2 (January 1924): 20.
"Dusk," Opportunity, 2 (April 1924): 99.
"I Weep," Opportunity, 2 (July 1924): 196.
"A Biographical Sketch of Archibald H. Grimke," Opportunity, 3 (February 1925): 44-47.
"Death," Opportunity, 3 (March 1925): 68.
SECONDARY WORKS
Bradley, Gerald. "Goodbye, Mister Bones," Drama Critique, 7 (Spring 1964): 83-84.
Drake, William. The First Wave: Women Poets in America, 1915-1945. New York: MacMillan, 1987.
Greene, Michael. "Angelina Weld Grimke," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 50. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 149-155.
Hull, Gloria T., Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Hull, Gloria T., "'Under the Days': The Buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimke," in Conditions: Five (Black Women's Issue), edited by Lorraine Bethel and Barbara Smith, 1979: 17-25.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 143-147.
Rush, Theressa G., Carol F. Myers, and Esther S. Arata. Black American Writers Past and Present: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975, 345-347.
Salem, Dorothy C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 214-216.




Zora Neale Hurston
Primary Works Secondary Works

PRIMARY WORKS
Books:
Jonah's Gourd Vine. Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1934.
Mules and Men. Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1935.
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1937.
Tell My Horse. Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1938; republished as Voodoo Gods. London: Dent, 1939.
Moses, Man of the Mountain. Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1939; republished as The Man of the Mountain. London: Dent, 1941.
Seraph on the Suwanee. New York: Scribners, 1948.
I Love Myself When I am Laughing...& Then Again When I am Looking Mean & Impressive, edited by Alice Walker. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1979.
Spunk, the Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston. Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1985.
The Sanctified Church. New York: Marlowe, 1997.
Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings. New York: W W. Norton, 1999.

SECONDARY WORKS
Cronin, Gloria L. Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. New York: G.K. Hall; London : Prentice Hall International, 1998.
Dance, Daryl C. "Zora Neale Hurston." American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays. edited by Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer, and M. Thomas Inge. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983, 321-51.
Davis, Rose Parkman. Zora Neale Hurston: an Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Hemenway, Robert. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Howard, Lillie P. Zora Neale Hurston. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Howard, Lillie P. "Zora Neale Hurston," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 133-144.
Peters, Pearlie Mae Fisher. The Assertive Woman in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction, Folklore, and Drama. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 181-192.

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Nella Larsen
Primary Works Secondary Works

PRIMARY WORKS
Novels:
Quicksand. New York: Knopf, 1928.
Passing. New York: Knopf, 1929.
Publications in Magazines and Journals:
"Playtime: Three Scandinavian Games," The Brownies' Book. 1 (June 1920): 191-192.
"Playtime: Danish Fun," The Brownies' Book. 1 (July 1920): 219.
"Correspondence," Opportunity. 4 (September 1926): 295.
"Review of Black Spade," Opportunity, 7 (January 1929): 24.
"Sanctuary," Forum, 83 (January 1930): 15-18.
"The Author's Explanation," Forum, Supplement 4, 83 (April 1930): 41-42.




SECONDARY WORKS
Bone, Robert. The Negro Novel in America. revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
Clark, William Bedford. "The Letters of Nella Larsen to Carl Van Vechten: A Survey," Resources for American Literary Study, 8 (Fall 1978): 193-199.
Davis, Arthur P. From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers, 1900-1960. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974.
Davis, Thadious M. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Davis, Thadious M. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 182-190.
Doyle, Mary Ellen. "The Heroines of Black Novels," in Perspectives on Afro-American Women, edited by Willa Johnson and Thomas Green. Washington, D.C.: ECCA Publishers, 1975, 112-125.
Fuller, Hoyt. Introduction to Passing,, by Larsen. New York: Collier, 1971, 10-24.
Hill, Adelaide C. Introduction to Quicksand, by Larsen. New York: Collier, 1971, 9-17.
Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Larson, Charles R.Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.
Lay, Mary M. "Parallels: Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Nella Larsen's Quicksand," CLA Journal, 20 (June 1977): 475-486.
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem was in Vogue. New York: Knopf, 1981.
McLendon, Jacquelyn Y.The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Perry, Margaret. Silence to the Drums: A Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 213-220.
Sato, Hiroko. "Under the Harlem Shadow: A Study of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen," in Harlem Renaissance Remembered, edited by Arna Bontemps. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
Singh, Amritjit. The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
Tate, Claudia. "Nella Larsen's Passing: A Problem of Interpretation," Black American Literature Forum. 14 (Winter 1980): 142-146.
Thornton, Hortense. "Sexism as Quagmire: Nella Larsen's Quicksand," CLA Journal, 16 (March 1973): 285-301.
Wall, Cheryl. "Nella Larsen," in American Women Writers, volume 2, edited by Lina Mainiero. New York: Ungar, 1980, 505-509.
Washington, Mary Helen. "Nella Larsen: Mystery Woman of the Harlem Renaissance," Ms., 9 (December 1980): 44-50.
Youman, Mary Mabel. "Nella Larsen's Passing: A Study in Irony," CLA Journal18 (December 1974): 235-241.


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Esther Popel
Primary Works Secondary Works

PRIMARY WORKS
Nonfiction:
"Our Thirteenth--in Ohio, 1936," Journal of the National Association of College Women. 13 (1936): 61-63.
Personal Adventures in Race Relations,. Second ed. New York: Woman's Press, National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1946.
Poetry:
"Bagatelle," Opportunity. (November 1931): 336.
"Blasphemy American Style," Opportunity. (December 1934): 368.
"Credo," Opportunity. (January 1925): 5.
"Flag Salute," Crisis. (August 1934): 231.
A Forest Pool. Washington, D.C.: Modernistic Press, 1934.
"Kinship," Opportunity. (January 1925): 5.
"Little Grey Leaves," Opportunity. (September 1925): 382.
"Night Comes Walking," Journal of Negro Life. (August 1929).
"October Prayer," Opportunity. (October 1933): 295.
"Reach Down, Sweet Grass," Opportunity. (April 1934): 110.
"Theft," Opportunity. (April 1925): 100.
"Little Grey Leaves," "Symphonies," and "Theft," in Readings from Negro Authors, for Schools and Colleges, with a Bibliography of Negro Literature, edited by Otelia Cromwell. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1931.

SECONDARY WORKS
Cronwell, Otelia, ed. Readings from Negro Authors for Schools and Colleges. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931, 388.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 268-270.
Rush, Theressa Gunnels. Black American Writers Past and Present: a Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975.
Sims-Wood, Janet L. The Progress of Afro-American Women: a Selected Bibliography and Resource Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.


Anne Spencer

PRIMARY WORKS
Poetry:
"The Poems," in Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry, by J. Lee Greene. Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977, 175-197.
"Before the Feast of Shushan," "At the Carnival," "The Wife-Woman," "Translation," and "Dunbar," in The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922, 169-173.
"Substitution," "Innocence," "Neighbors," "Questing," "Life-Long, Poor Browning," "I Have a Friend," "Creed," in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, edited by Countee Cullen. New York: Harper, 1927, 47-52.
"Letter to My Sister," in Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, edited by Charles S. Johnson. New York: National Urban League, 1927, 94.
"For Jim, Easter Eve," in The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949, 65.
Publications in Magazines and Journals:
"Before the Feast at Shushan," Crisis, 19 (February 1920): 186.
"White Things," Crisis, 25 (March 1923): 204.
"Lady, Lady," Survey Graphic, 6 (March 1925): 661.
"Lines to a Nasturtium (A Lover Muses)," Palms, 4 (October 1926): 13.
"Rime for the Christmas Baby (At 48 Webster Place, Orange)," Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life,
5 (December 1927): 368.
"Grapes: Still-Life," Crisis, 36 (April 1929): 124.
"Requiem," Lyric, (Spring 1931): 3.
SECONDARY WORKS
The Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation. Echoes from the Garden: The Anne Spencer Story(a documentary film). Lynchburg, Va.: Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation/Washington, D.C.: Byron Studios, 1980.
Facts of File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. New York: Facts on File, Inc. Vol 2, 1997, 156-158.
Greene, J. Lee. "Anne Spencer," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 252-259.
Greene, J. Lee.Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry. Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 298-303.
Salem, Dorothy C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 473-474.


Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Primary Works Secondary Works

PRIMARY WORKS
Autobiography:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice. edited by Alfreda Duster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Other Nonfiction:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death: The Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive (and) Other Lynching Statistics. Chicago, 1900.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, a Red Record, Mob Rule in New Orleans. Reprinted ed. Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Co., 1991.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. A Red Record: Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1894. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1971.

SECONDARY WORKS
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. "Ida B. Wells-Barnett : an exploratory study of an American Black woman," in Black Women in United States History, vol. 15. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.
Holt, Thomas. "The Lonely Warrior: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Struggle for Black Leadership." In Black Leaders of the 20th Century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1982, 39-61.
Ida B. Wells. (videorecording). Atlanta, GA: History on Video, 1993.
Lisandrelli, Elaine Slivinski. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Crusader Against Lynching. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.
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