| Contents |
Foreword: let's laugh a little -- Simple's platform -- Bang-up big end -- Big round world -- Duty is not snooty -- Great but late -- Bones, bombs, chicken neck -- A dog named Trilby -- Enter Cousin Minnie -- radioactive redcaps -- Face and race -- Two sides not enough -- Great day -- With all deliberate speed -- Puerto Ricans -- Depression in the cards-- The atomic age -- Minnie again -- Sketch for TV -- Sex in front -- Out-loud silent -- Color on the brain -- New kind of dozens -- vicious circle -- Jim Crow's funeral -- Again cousin Minnie -- cellophane bandannas -- Negroes and vacations -- Only human -- Name in print -- Golfing and golfing -- Reason and right -- Mississippi fists -- Minnie one more time -- Simple stashes back -- An auto-obituary -- Four-way celebrations -- Be broad-minded, please! -- Grammar and goodness -- Chips on the shoulder -- Jazz, jive and jam. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes inscription "Especially for Rex and June, with all good wishes - Sincerely, Langston Hughes Sept. 29, 1957." |
| References |
Dickinson, D.C. Bio-bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 (Second edition, revised), entry 32 |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Simple stakes a claim. New York : Rinehart, ©1957 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 57009628 |
