CONTENTS

Note to Readers

The Sermon in the Cradle

W. E. B. Du Bois

A Carol of Color

The Christmas Reunion Down at Martinsville

Augustus M. Hodges

The Children’s Christmas

Alice Moore Dunbar

Christmas Eve Story

Fanny Jackson Coppin

Mollie’s Best Christmas Gift

A Christmas Story

Carrie Jane Thomas

Fannie May’s Christmas

Katherine Davis Tillman

Elsie’s Christmas

Salem Tutt Whitney

General Washington: A Christmas Story

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

The Autobiography of a Dollar Bill

Lelia Plummer

Mirama’s Christmas Test

Timothy Thomas Fortune

A Christmas Party That Prevented a Split in the Church

Margaret Black

Three Men and a Woman

Augustus M. Hodges

It Came to Pass: A Christmas Story

Bruce L. Reynolds

A Christmas Journey

Louis Lorenzo Redding

Uncle U.S. Santa Claus

James Conway Jackson

The Devil Spends Christmas Eve in Dixie

Andrew Dobson

One Christmas Eve

Langston Hughes

Santa Claus Is a White Man

John Henrik Clarke

Merry Christmas Eve

White Christmas

Valena Minor Williams