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Books by Sterling Brown
Southern Road /
The Negro Caravan /
The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown /
The Negro in American Fiction; Negro Poetry and Drama
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Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems
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Books about Sterling Brown
Joanne,Gabbin.
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1994)
John Edgar Tidwell,
Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (2007)
Charles Rowell.
Callaloo's Sterling A. Brown: Special Issue (1998)
Mark A. Sanders.
Afro-Modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling Brown
(1999)
Mark A. Sanders.
A Son's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling Brown (1996)
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April 14, 1936
Dear Sir:
In a serious effort to give qualifying colored writers and
Negro subject-matter fair treatment in the Federal Writer's
Projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, Mr.
Harry L. Hopkins has appointed me Editor of material affecting
the Negro.
It is evident from the nature of this important undertaking,
the writer's program, that its success must depend in a large
measure upon the good will and cooperation of responsible
leaders in various fields of endeavor throughout the United
States. wishing the material concerning the Negro to be unbiased
and as accurate as possible, we are urgently requesting the
cooperation of recognized colored leaders.
The major publication of the writer's project will be the
American Guide, a five volume descriptive and cultural history
of the United States. The Negro's contributions to the economic
and cultural development of America will be given extensive
treatment--if we are able to secure the necessary assistance.
In view of your achievement and information in the field of
Negro life and literature, we should like very much to have your
advice on certain phases of this subject, and any other
assistance that you may conveniently render during the progress
of our work.
Your sincerely,
(unsigned)
SAB/1b* *
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posted 29 June 2008 |
