The book of Negro humor / selected and edited by Langston Hughes.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Language:English
Published: New York : Dodd, Mead, [1966]
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
African American wit and humor.
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 4 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 4 in dust jacket.
Physical Description:xiv, 265 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Cool comics
  • contemporary comedy
  • Jokes and jive
  • from then to now
  • Pulpit and pew
  • parsons and parishioners
  • Just for fun -pastime verses
  • Down-home tales
  • laughter from the South
  • Laugh and live
  • biography and autobiography
  • Tell it in rhyme
  • ballads and songs
  • Nothing but the blues
  • traditional couplets
  • Jazz people
  • tales of the music world
  • Harlem party cards
  • rustling up the rent
  • Simple speaks his mind
  • contemporary commentary
  • Poets write it down
  • from old New Orleans to Harlem
  • Writers grin and bear it
  • fact and fiction
  • Segregated integration
  • our day and times.