African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America\'\'s earliest Black writers illustrated by contemporary African-American artists Featured are Two Americans by Florence Lewis Bentley The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W Chesnutt Becky by Jean Toomer two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston and six more tales of humor and tragedy Also featured are eleven poems including Langston Hughes\'\' Danse Africaine and The Negro plus Paul Laurence Dunbar\'\'s Sympathy (\'\'I know why the caged bird sings\'\')