African-American literature

616 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

O’Brien, John 114, 143, 144
Obsidian 20
O Canaan! (Turpin) 513–514
Octavia and Other Poems
(Madgett) 324
“October XXIX, 1795” (Braith-
waite) 71–72
Of Love and Dust (Gaines) 194–195
Of One Blood (Hopkins) 253
“Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (Du-
Bois) 474–475
O’Higgins, Myron 239
Ollie Miss (Henderson) 242–243
“Omar” (Miller) 358
Omni-Americans, The (Murray)
376
“On a New Year’s Eve” (Jordan)
290–291
“On Becoming” (Cleaver) 474
“On Being a Domestic” (Walrond)
530
“On Being Brought from Africa to
America” (Wheatley) 545
On Call (Jordan) 289
One and the Many (Madgett) 324
One Dark Body (Sherman) 463
One Great Question, The (Griggs)
215
“One Hundred Years of Laughter”
(Attaway) 19
One More River to Cross (Boykin)
69
One of Three (Johnson) 277–278
One Way to Heaven (Cullen) 127
Only Dark Spot in the Sky, The
(Dove) 147
“On Not Being White” (Shepherd)
461
“On Saturday the Siren Sounds at
Noon” (Petry) 412
“On the Affray in King Street, On
the Evening of the 5th of March,
1770” (Wheatley) 544
On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Dove)
147
“On the Death of Rev. Mr. George
Whitefield 1770” (Wheatley) 544
On the Field of France (Cotter) 123
“On the Pulse of the Morning”
(Angelou) 13
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro
Life 80, 230, 379, 399–400, 530

Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old

and New (Gomez) 208–209

Order in the Court (Queen Latifah)

423

Oreo (Ross) 440–441

Organization for African American

Unity (OAAU) 330–331

Organization of African Unity

(OAU) 24, 330

Organization of Black African Cul-

ture (OBAC) 438, 439

Oscar Micheaux Corporation 355

Other Side of the House, The (Dove)

147

Our Dead behind Us (Lorde) 318

Our Nig (Wilson) 400–401, 557

Outsider, The (Wright) 567

Owens, Chandler 353–354

Owens, Dana. See Queen Latifah

Owl Answers, The (Kennedy) 299

Oxherding Tale (Johnson) 278, 356

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Pagan Spain (Wright) 568

Pagoda, The (Powell) 418, 419

Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar

(Major) 327

Pamplin, Roger V., Jr. 77

Pan-Africanism

of Angelou (Maya) 14

of Baraka (Amiri) 34

in Black Arts Movement 49

in Black World 57

of Crummell (Alexander) 54

of DuBois (W. E. B.) 150

of Fuller (Hoyt) 192

of Gates (Henry Louis, Jr.) 464

Hopkins (Pauline Elizabeth)

on 253

of Karenga (Maulana) 294–295

of Madhubuti (Haki) 325

of Malcolm X 329, 330

of Marshall (Paule) 337

of McKay (Claude) 348

in Negritude movement 391

of Schuyler (George Samuel)

452

Panther (film) 520

Paper Soul (Rodgers) 438

Parable of the Sower (Butler) 85,

402–403

Parable of the Talents (Butler) 402

Paradise (Morrison) 367, 368

“Paradise” (Shepherd) 461

Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black

and White (Staples) 480

Parker, Gwendolyn M. 403–404

Parker, Pat 404–405

Parks, Gordon 405–407

Parks, Suzan-Lori 407–408

Passing (Larsen) 309, 310, 521

“Passing of Grandison, The”

(Chesnutt) 100

“passion. joy. peace” (Boyd) 68

Patches: A Story of War and Re-

demption (French) 191

“Patient Zero” (Due) 152

Paul D 40, 41, 95, 367, 408–409,

455

Pawley, Thomas W., Jr. 409–410

Peacock Poems (Williams) 553–554

“Peacock Room, The” (Hayden)

239

Peeling Potato (Lewis) 315

Pegues, Conrad 213

People One Knows, The (Boles) 62,

63

Perry, Richard H. 410

Peterson, Louis Stamford, Jr.

411–412

Petry, Ann 412–413

The Street 247, 482–483

Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia

(Madgett) 324

Pharr, Robert Deane 413–415

“Phenomenal Woman” (Angelou)

13

Philadelphia Fire (Wideman) 415

Philadelphia Negro, The: A Social

Study (DuBois) 149

Phillips, Carl 415–416

Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 129

Piano Lesson, The (Wilson) 556

Piece of Mine, A (Cooper) 117, 118

Pimp: The Story of My Life (Iceberg

Slim) 205, 262

Pimpin’ 101 (film) 263

Pink Ladies in the Afternoon: New

Poems, 1965– 1971 (Madgett) 324

“Place Where He Arose, The” (Bar-

low) 37

Planet Rock (Aasim) 4

Platitudes (Ellis) 166