The Negro Caravan

The Negro Caravan is a collection of writings by African Americans edited by Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, and Ulysses Lee.^[1] It was published in 1941. A writeup in the New York Times states it achieved "legend" status.^[2] It was published by Dryden Press.^[3] The book includes short stories, excerpts from novels, poetry, folk literature, drama, speeches, pamphlets, letters, biography, and essays organized chronologically by genre.^[4] It also includes biographical sketches of the writers.

The Negro Caravan

Publication date	1941

One reviewer, Harvey Curtis Webster, wrote of the book, "The pleasure of reading The Negro Caravan is hardly undermined by the fact that one emerges a more enlightened human being."^[5] In her newspaper column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that The Negro Caravan "should be in everyone's library."^[6]

References

1. Turner, Lorenzo D. (1942). "Review of The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes". The Journal of Negro History. 27 (2): 219–222. doi:10.2307/2714736. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2714736.
2. Lester, Julius (November 30, 1969). "The Negro Caravan; Writings by American Negroes. Edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee. 1,082 pp. New York: Arno Press. $35" – via NYTimes.com.
3. Brown, Sterling Allen; Davis, Arthur Paul; Lee, Ulysses (November 27, 1941). "The Negro Caravan". Dryden Press – via Google Books.
4. "Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes · Anthologies of African American Writing · DSCFF". masonlibraries.gmu.edu.
5. "The Courier-Journal". Newspapers.com. 15 Feb 1942. p. 67. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
6. "Intelligencer Journal". Newspapers.com. 20 Jul 1944. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-04-04.