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Africa

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  2. Countee Cullen, "Heritage" (1925)
  3. Langston Hughes, "Danse Africaine" (1926)
  4. H. Percival Welsh, "A Call to Race Manhood" (1921)
  5. Helene Johnson, "Bottled" (1927)
  6. Langston Hughes, "Afraid" (1926)
  7. Langston Hughes, "Poem: For the portrait of an African boy after the manner of Gauguin"
  8. Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915)
  9. Maurice N. Corbett, "Liberia" (1914)
  10. Claude McKay, "Africa" (1921)
  11. Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark Peoples" (1924)
  12. Langston Hughes, "Brothers" (1924)
  13. Edward S. Silvera, "Black Glory Dead!" (1925)
  14. Countee Cullen, "Three Hundred Years Ago" (1925)
  15. O.M. Skinner, "From Afric's Sunny Shore" (1921)
  16. James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)
  17. Gladys May Casey Hayford, "Rainy Season Love Song" (1927)
  18. Bessie Brent Madison, "For Ethiopia" (1921)
  19. Arna Bontemps, "Golgotha Is a Mountain" (1926)
  20. Virginia P. Jackson, "Africa" (1919)
  21. E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
  22. Anonymous, "A Remarkable Epitaph" (1907)
  23. Effie Lee Newsome, "Sun Disk" (1923)
  24. Countee Cullen, "Colored Blues Singer" (1927)
  25. Claude McKay, "On a Primitive Canoe" (1922)
  26. Poems by Lucian B. Watkins in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  27. Lewis Alexander, "Africa" (1924)
  28. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, Biographical Note in "Caroling Dusk" (1927)
  29. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "Dedicated to W.H. Sheppard" (1910)
  30. Arna Bontemps, "The Return" (1927)
  31. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  32. Waring Cuney, "Dust" (1927)
  33. Walter Everette Hawkins, "Ethiopian Maid" (1917)
  34. Langston Hughes, "Johannesburg Mines" (1925)
  35. Fenton Johnson, "War Profiles" (1918)
  36. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, "Nativity" (1927)
  37. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Morning Light" (1918)
  38. Lucian B. Watkins, "Star of Ethiopia" (1918)
  39. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  40. Antonio Jarvis, "Bamboula Dance" (1928)
  41. Claude McKay, "Invocation" (1917)
  42. Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg), "Racial Integrity" (1913)
  43. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, "The Serving Girl" (1927)
  44. Katherine D. Tillman, "Oh Africa!" (1902)
  45. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  46. Joseph Hazel Donaldson, "To Minnie" (1921)
  47. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Africa" (1924)
  48. Katherine D. Tillman, "America's First Cargo of Slaves" (1902)
  49. Walter Everette Hawkins, "Ode to Ethiopia" (1909)
  50. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  51. Fenton Johnson, "The New Day" (1922)
  52. Hilary Teague, "Poem" (1903)
  53. J.E. McCall, "When Sampson Sings" (1928)
  54. Frances E.W. Harper, "Ethiopia" (1849/1854)
  55. Azalia E. Martin, "A Song to Afric's Great" (1903)
  56. Cecelia Elizabeth, "The Lay of the Nile" (1920)
  57. B.B. Church, "Africa" (1924)
  58. Walter Everette Hawkins, "I Am Africa" (1928)
  59. Otto Bohanan, "Paean" (1915)
  60. Fenton Johnson, "Soldiers of the Dusk" (1915)
  61. T. Thomas Fortune, “The Pyramids” (1906)
  62. Eugene Gordon, "The Sarcophagus" (1929)