African American Poetry: A Digital AnthologyMain MenuFull Text Collection: Books Published by African American Poets, 1870-1928Long list of 100+ full texts books of poetry available on this "Anthology"Author Pages: Bios and Full Text CollectionsList of African American poets onAfrican American Periodical Poetry (1900-1928)A collection of African Amerian Periodical Poetry, mostly focused on 1900-1928Areas of Interest: Topics and ThemesAfrican American Poetry: Anthologies of the 1920sPoetry by African American Women (1890-1930): A Reader and GuideOpen access textbook introducing readers to Poetry by Black WomenExploring Datasets related to African American poetryAbout This Site: Mission Statement, Contributors, and Recent UpdatesAn account of the history and evolution of this site by the site editor.Further Reading / Works CitedAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-16T11:32:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Chapter 1b: Revisiting American History via Poetry, 1890-18996Chapter 1, Section b of Poetry by African American Women: A Reader and Guideplain2024-07-23T15:22:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-16T11:55:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Chapter 2a: The Long Legacy of Slavery, 1900-19094Chapter 2, Section a of Poetry by African American Women: A Reader and Guideplain2024-07-29T14:52:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-10T10:51:09-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)4plain2022-07-18T10:59:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-12T06:45:22-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1"Afro-American" by Charles Frederick White (1900)3plain2024-05-13T11:25:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)3plain2024-07-05T10:09:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-30T08:20:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)3plain2024-05-12T12:22:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-07-06T17:41:08-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charlotte E. Linden, "A Riot" (1907)2plain2024-06-09T09:40:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-22T10:26:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maurice N. Corbett, "Lynching" (1914)2plain2024-06-12T12:50:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-14T07:30:59-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Grant Gilmore, "The Twenty-Fifth Infantry" (1907)2plain2024-07-12T09:34:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-22T08:36:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Bertha Johnston, "I Met A Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)2plain2024-05-08T09:38:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-01-12T10:31:49-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frances E.W. Harper, "The Martyr of Alabama" (1895)2plain2024-06-17T13:28:24-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:40:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove” (1916)2plain2022-07-02T07:58:49-04:0006/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-12T12:35:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maurice N. Corbett, "The Ku Klux Klan Born" (1914)2plain2024-07-22T16:25:23-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-04-12T12:53:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frances Smith Brown, "Maiden of my Race" (1927)1plain2024-04-12T12:53:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-22T10:25:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maurice N. Corbett, "The Mob Spirit" (1914)1plain2023-06-22T10:25:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-12T16:33:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mae V. Cowdery, "A Prayer" (1928)1plain2024-04-12T16:33:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-29T15:30:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Mob Victim" (1909)1plain2024-05-29T15:30:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-02T10:09:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1John Frederick Matheus, "In the Night" (1920)1plain2022-08-02T10:09:28-04:0002/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:18:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:18:12-04:0007/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-11T13:30:00-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Townsend Allen, "The New Battle Hymn" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:30:00-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-07-11T13:31:43-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Townsend Allen, "The New Battle Hymn" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:31:43-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-07-26T13:59:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine D. Tillman, "Ida B. Wells" (1902)1plain2024-07-26T13:59:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-14T10:36:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "So Quietly" (1921)1plain2022-03-14T10:36:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:18:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Lynching" (1920)1plain2022-08-26T09:18:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-14T10:45:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)1plain2022-03-14T10:45:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-15T09:20:07-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "Song for a Dark Girl" (1927)1plain2022-12-15T09:20:07-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T13:07:06-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45W. H. Goode, "A Truce to Peace" (1902)1plain2024-07-12T13:07:06-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12025-05-18T18:14:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Eugene Gordon, "Alien" (1928)1Short story by Eugene Gordon; Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1928plain2025-05-18T18:14:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-16T16:44:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "Brothers" (1921)1plain2024-07-16T16:44:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-12T08:26:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1I.C.B. "Thirteen Black Martyrs of Houston" (1923)1plain2024-05-12T08:26:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-02T08:50:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Pictures" (1920)1plain2024-07-02T08:50:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-12T20:44:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "To the White Fiends" (1918)1plain2024-05-12T20:44:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-20T07:42:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)1plain2022-07-20T07:42:41-04:0011/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1