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  1. Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
  2. Josephine Heard, "The Black Samson" (1890)
  3. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  4. Fenton Johnson, "A Little Dreaming" (Full Text) (1913)
  5. Mary Weston Fordham, "Magnolia Leaves," (Full Text) (1897) (Preface by Booker T. Washington)
  6. Claude McKay, "On the Road" (1922)
  7. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Hegira" (1917)
  8. Claude McKay, "Dawn in New York" (1922)
  9. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  10. Helene Johnson, "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" (1927)
  11. Ann Lawrence, "Raise the Pullman Men" (1925)
  12. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)
  13. Colonel Charles Young, "A Latter-Day Eden" (1902)
  14. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  15. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  16. Countee Cullen, "Atlantic City Waiter" (1925)
  17. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negro Labor Changed Dixie" (1914)
  18. Claude McKay, "Spring in New Hampshire" (1919) (poem)
  19. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  20. Claude McKay, "The Tired Worker" (1919)
  21. E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
  22. Anita Scott Coleman, "Black Baby" (1929)
  23. Edward S. Silvera (Edward Silvera), "Washerwoman" (1927)
  24. Effie Lee Newsome, "Exodus" (1925)
  25. Alonzo Milton Skrine, "The Negro's Worth" (1900)
  26. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  27. Frank Horne, "My Words" (1926)
  28. Edward S. Silvera, "South Street" (1927)
  29. Maurice N. Corbett, "Foreign Labor" (1914)
  30. Claude McKay, "Quashie to Buccra" (1912)
  31. Waring Cuney, "Hammer Song" (1928)
  32. Langston Hughes, "Ruby Brown" (1926)
  33. Claude McKay, "French Leave" (1922)
  34. Katherine Gillard, "Just a Little Tired" (1916)
  35. Thomas Millard Henry, "Three Poems" (1924)
  36. Powell W. Gibson, "The Diamond Ring" (1907)
  37. Langston Hughes, "Elevator Boy" (1926)
  38. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  39. Otto Bohanan, "The Washer-Woman" (1916)
  40. Leathe Colvert, "Drones" (1924)
  41. Poems by Otto Bohanan in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  42. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  43. T. Thomas Fortune, “The Pyramids” (1906)
  44. Langston Hughes, "Steel Mills" (1925)
  45. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, "The Serving Girl" (1927)
  46. Matthew D. Bennett, "Bell Boy in the Clock" (1906)
  47. Langston Hughes, "Johannesburg Mines" (1925)
  48. Carrie Law Morgan Figgs, "Why Slight the Working Girl?" (1920)
  49. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  50. Claude McKay, "Fetchin' Water" (1912)
  51. Aaron Belford Thompson, "Work" (1899)
  52. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "To the Negro Farmers of the United States" (1920)
  53. Claude McKay, "Hard Times" (1912)
  54. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  55. Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)
  56. Claude McKay, "A Labourer's Life Give Me" (1912)
  57. Allison Davis, "Gospel For Those Who Must" (1928)
  58. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  59. Katherine D. Tillman, "The Worker's Song" (1902)
  60. Claude McKay, "To Work" (1920)
  61. Lewis Alexander, "The Black Pageant" (1927)
  62. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  63. Claude McKay, "The Tired Worker" (1922)
  64. Arna Bontemps, "Homing" (1926)
  65. Jasper Ross, "King Cotton and the Negro" (1914)