African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Lynching and Racialized Violence

Contents of this tag:

  1. Chapter 1b: Revisiting American History via Poetry, 1890-1899
  2. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)
  3. Chapter 2a: The Long Legacy of Slavery, 1900-1909
  4. Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)
  5. "Afro-American" by Charles Frederick White (1900)
  6. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)
  7. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  8. Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove”   (1916)
  9. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Trees" (1928)
  10. Maurice N. Corbett, "The Ku Klux Klan Born" (1914)
  11. Charlotte E. Linden, "A Riot" (1907)
  12. Langston Hughes, "Blue Bayou" (1927)
  13. Katherine D. Tillman, "Clotelle--A Tale of Florida" (1902)
  14. Maurice N. Corbett, "Lynching" (1914)
  15. T. Grant Gilmore, "The Twenty-Fifth Infantry" (1907)
  16. Matthew Bennett, "They" (1924)
  17. Bertha Johnston, "I Met A Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)
  18. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Martyr of Alabama" (1895)
  19. Claude McKay, "Roman Holiday" (1919)
  20. Anne Spencer, "White Things" (1923)
  21. Lucian B. Watkins, "The Execution" (1919)
  22. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Pictures" (1920)
  23. Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
  24. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr., "They've Lynched a Man in Dixie" (1919)
  25. Claude McKay, "To the White Fiends" (1918)
  26. Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)
  27. H.T. Johnson, "Man Burning" (1904)
  28. Frances Smith Brown, "Maiden of my Race" (1927)
  29. Orlando C.W. Taylor, "In Flanders Fields--An Echo" (1920)
  30. Maurice N. Corbett, "The Mob Spirit" (1914)
  31. Mae V. Cowdery, "A Prayer" (1928)
  32. Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Mob Victim" (1909)
  33. John Frederick Matheus, "In the Night" (1920)
  34. Townsend Allen, "Columbia's Disgrace" (1903)
  35. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  36. Townsend Allen, "The New Battle Hymn" (1903)
  37. Townsend Allen, "The New Battle Hymn" (1903)
  38. Frank Horne, "Arabesque" (1927)
  39. Katherine D. Tillman, "Ida B. Wells" (1902)
  40. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "So Quietly" (1921)
  41. Claude McKay, "The Lynching" (1920)
  42. Leathe Colvert, "Ternebre" (1924)
  43. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)
  44. Langston Hughes, "Song for a Dark Girl" (1927)
  45. W. H. Goode, "A Truce to Peace" (1902)
  46. Eugene Gordon, "Alien" (1928)
  47. Countee Cullen, "Colors" (1927) (individual poem)
  48. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "Brothers" (1921)
  49. I.C.B. "Thirteen Black Martyrs of Houston" (1923)
  50. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922)
  51. Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
  52. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little Mother (Upon the Lynching of Mary Turner" (1922)