African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Lynching

Contents of this tag:

  1. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)
  2. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  3. Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove”   (1916)
  4. Orlando C.W. Taylor, "In Flanders Fields--An Echo" (1920)
  5. Maurice N. Corbett, "The Mob Spirit" (1914)
  6. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "So Quietly" (1921)
  7. John Frederick Matheus, "In the Night" (1920)
  8. Maurice N. Corbett, "Lynching" (1914)
  9. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)
  10. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  11. Charlotte E. Linden, "A Riot" (1907)
  12. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Martyr of Alabama" (1905)
  13. Claude McKay, "The Lynching" (1920)
  14. Bertha Johnston, "I Met A Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)
  15. Langston Hughes, "Song for a Dark Girl" (1927)
  16. Countee Cullen, "Colors" (1927) (individual poem)
  17. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922)
  18. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1911)
  19. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little Mother (Upon the Lynching of Mary Turner" (1922)
  20. Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
  21. Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)
  22. H.T. Johnson, "Man Burning" (1904)
  23. "Afro-American" by Fred White (1900)