A collection of Christmas poems, songs, and stories relating to African Americans. Includes holiday recipes.

Includes indexes.

A race is like man / John W. Vandercook -- Nativity / Aquah Laluah -- Memories of Christmas / Langston Hughes -- How come Christmas / Roark Bradford -- A plantation Christmas / Julia Peterkin -- Christmas gift / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Legend of the black madonna / Margaret T. Applegarth -- Goat comes to the Christmas party / Eva Knox Evans -- New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass -- Anxious days and sleepless nights / Booker T. Washington -- Chrismus is a-comin' / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Speakin' o' Christmas / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Christmas carol / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A Little Christmas basket / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Through the holly wreath / Effie Lee Newsome -- The Magi call him king / Effie Lee Newsome. -- Carol of the brown king / Langston Hughes -- Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- On a pallet of straw / Langston Hughes -- The Peppermint candy march / Effie Lee Newsome -- Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes -- The Christmas story / Langston Hughes -- On a Christmas night / Langston Hughes -- An Anonymous verse; from a Puerto Rican Christmas card / Anon.; tr. by Langston Hughes -- Every man heart lay down / Lorenz Graham -- The Stable / Gabriela Mistral -- Indian Christmas / Gabriela Mistral -- Go tell it on the mountain / Negro spiritual -- Wasn't that a mighty day / Negro spiritual -- The Virgin Mary had a baby boy / Negro spiritual -- What you gonna name that pretty little baby? / Negro spiritual -- Rise up, shepherd, and follow / Negro spiritual -- God's Christmas tree / Eve Lynn (Evelyn C. Reynolds) -- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen -- The Black Madonna / Albert Rice -- Otto / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Christmas recipes from the "big house" and the cabin -- Author index -- Title index.