Soon, one morning : new writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962 / selected and edited, with an introd. and biographical notes, by Herbert Hill.

Introduction / Herbert Hill -- I. Essays -- Picnic with Sinclair Lewis / Horace R. Cayton ; Letters from a journey / James Baldwin ; Alien land of Richard Wright / Saunders Redding ; Dilemma of the American Negro scholar / John Hope Franklin ; Hide my face?--on Pan-Africanism and Negritude / St. Clair Drake ; from I wonder as I wander : Moscow movie / Langston Hughes -- II. Fiction -- Five episodes / Richard Wright ; Miss Muriel / Ann Petry ; from Lonely crusade / Chester Himes ; Rock, church / Langston Hughes ; Out of the hospital and under the bar / Ralph Ellison ; from Proud shoes / Pauli Murray ; Life of Lincoln West / Gwendolyn Brooks ; from Maud Martha : Helen / Gwendolyn Brooks ; from The system of Dante's Hell : Christians, Rape / LeRoi Jones ; Come home early, chile / Owen Dodson ; Singing Dinah's song / Frank London Brown ; from A Touch of innocence : Creek / Katherine Dunham ; Rat Joiner routs the Klan / Ted Poston ; Almost White boy / Willard Motley ; from Go tell it on the mountain : Seventh day / James Baldwin ; from Beetlecreek / William Demby ; from The living is easy / Dorothy West ; from Thunder at dawn / Benjamin A. Brown ; Beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter -- III. Poems -- from A street in Bronzeville : Mother, Song in the front yard, When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story, Sundays of Satin-legs Smith / Gwendolyn Brooks ; from Annie Allen : five poems / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Abraham Lincoln of Rock Spring Farm / M.B. Tolson ; Veracruz / Robert Hayden ; Full Moon / Robert Hayden ; Picnic : the liberated / M. Carl Holman ; Three Brown girls singing / M. Carl Holman ; Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman ; from Ask your mama : 12 moods for jazz : Blues in stereo, Ask your mama, Jazztet muted / Langston Hughes ; from Montage of a dream deferred : Dream boogie, Parade, Children's rhymes, Night funeral in Harlem, Harlem, Same in blues / Langston Hughes ; Translations from the French / Langston Hug

A diverse collection of writings by leading Negro literary figures including Langston Hughes, Willard Motley, James Baldevin, and Ralph Ellison