New York:: The Free Press,, 1968.. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus price clipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the top edge of the rear panel. This anthology explores the entire history of African American writing in America with an emphasis on an especially broad range of work covering a wide scope of genres. Some the writers featured include: Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E. B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and others. First printing of the First Edition.