The Negro Caravan

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The Negro Caravan is a collection of writings by African Americans edited by Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, and Ulysses Lee.{{Cite journal |last=Turner |first=Lorenzo D. |date=1942 |title=Review of The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2714736 |journal=The Journal of Negro History |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=219–222 |doi=10.2307/2714736 |jstor=2714736 |issn=0022-2992}} It was published in 1941. A writeup in the New York Times states it achieved "legend" status.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/30/archives/the-negro-caravan-writings-by-american-negroes-edited-by-sterling-a.html|title=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.|first=Julius|last=Lester|date=November 30, 1969|via=NYTimes.com}} It was published by Dryden Press.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yYGAQAAIAAJ|title=The Negro Caravan|first1=Sterling Allen|last1=Brown|first2=Arthur Paul|last2=Davis|first3=Ulysses|last3=Lee|date=November 27, 1941|publisher=Dryden Press|via=Google Books}} The book includes short stories, excerpts from novels, poetry, folk literature, drama, speeches, pamphlets, letters, biography, and essays organized chronologically by genre.{{Cite web|url=https://masonlibraries.gmu.edu/dscff/s/aaaw/item/514|title=Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes · Anthologies of African American Writing · DSCFF|website=masonlibraries.gmu.edu}} It also includes biographical sketches of the writers.

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."{{Cite web |date=15 Feb 1942 |title=The Courier-Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-a-negro-anthology/120965414/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Newspapers.com |page=67 |language=en}} In her newspaper column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that The Negro Caravan "should be in everyone's library."{{Cite web |date=20 Jul 1944 |title=Intelligencer Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/intelligencer-journal-roosevelt-my-day-n/122275935/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Newspapers.com |page=8 |language=en}}