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  • Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays

    Arna Bontemps

    Paperback (Dodd Mead, Sept. 1, 1984)
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  • Story of the Negro

    Arna Bontemps

    Library Binding (Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1978)
    None
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  • Hold Fast to Dreams: poems old & new

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Follett, March 15, 1969)
    Poems old & new selected and with an introduction by Bontemps. Poets include John Keats, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Karl Shapiro, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Frost, Jean Toomer, Robert Frost & Ezra Pound.

  • We Have Tomorrow

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 1, 1945)
    Written for young adults, this book contains twelve biographies of living African-American men and women, in the first half of the 20th century, who have struggled to find a measure of satisfying success. Langston Hughes' poem "Youth" is the Introduction: We have tomorrow, Bright before us Like a flame...Yesterday, A night-gone thing, A sun-down name...And dawn-today, Broad arch above the road we came...We march !

  • Hold Fast to Dreams

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Wilcox & Follett Book Co, July 1, 1979)
    A collection of poems by American and English poets on such topics as trees, spring, animals, the sea, and others.

  • Free at Last, the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Arna Bontemps

    Paperback (Dodd, Mead and Company, March 15, 1971)
    Frederick Douglas played one of the most extraordinary roles in American history.

  • Chariot in the Sky - A Story of the Jubilee Singers

    Arna Bontemps

    Paperback (Oliphant Press, Nov. 9, 2010)
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

  • Famous Negro Athletes

    Arna Bontemps

    Paperback (Apollo Editions, June 24, 1964)
    Portraits of nine Black athletes who have excelled in American sport

  • Chariot in the Sky - A Story of the Jubilee Singers

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Palmer Press, Nov. 15, 2010)
    Eleven black students form a singing group and tour the world in an attempt to save their college from financial ruin.

  • Golden Slippers. An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1965)
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  • Famous Negro Athletes

    Arna Bontemps

    Library Binding (Dodd, Mead & Company, March 24, 1964)
    None

  • Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers

    Arna Bontemps

    Hardcover (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Aug. 16, 1968)
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