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Poems Honoring Frederick Douglass

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African American poets from the late 19th and early 20th centuries frequently wrote tributes to Frederick Douglass. Quite a number of elegies appeared in the years immediately following his death in 1895.

Contents of this tag:

  1. Lucian B. Watkins, "Frederick Douglass-Orator" (1917)
  2. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  3. H.T. Johnson, "Memorial Ode to Frederick Douglass" (1904)
  4. Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
  5. Maurice N. Corbett, "Frederick Douglass" (1914)
  6. James T. Franklin, "Douglas (To His Widow)" [Douglass] (1900)
  7. Daniel Webster Davis, "Light in Darkness" (1895)
  8. Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  9. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  10. C. Henry Holmes, "A Memorial of Frederick Douglass" (1900)
  11. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  12. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  13. Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. "Frederick Douglass" (1898)
  14. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Emancipators" (1917)
  15. Josephine T. Washington, "Cedar Hill Saved" (1919)
  16. Frank B. Coffin, "Douglass Dead?" (1897)
  17. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)
  18. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  19. Richard E.S. Toomey, "To the Shade of Douglass" (1901)