African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Motherhood

Contents of this tag:

  1. Otto Bohanan, "Mammy" (1917)
  2. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
  3. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)
  4. Colonel Charles Young, "A Negro-Mother's Cradle Song" (1923)
  5. Lucian B. Watkins, "The Black Madonna And Her Babe" (1918)
  6. Cora J. Ball Moten, "A Lullaby" (1914)
  7. Bessie Brent Madison, "For Ethiopia" (1921)
  8. Clara Ann Thompson, "The Skeptic. Written on an Incident, Read in a Periodical" (1908)
  9. Anita Scott Coleman, "Black Baby" (1929)
  10. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Motherhood" / "Black Woman" (1922)
  11. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Mothers of America" (1922)
  12. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" (1857)
  13. Fenton Johnson, "The Mother o' Dusk and Her Babe" (1928)
  14. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)
  15. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)
  16. Albert Rice, "Black Madonna" (1926)
  17. Clara Ann Thompson, "The Skeptic. Written on an Incident, Read in a Periodical" (1908)
  18. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Shall I Say 'My Son, You Are Branded'?" (1919)
  19. Josephine Heard, "When Do School Days End?" (1890)
  20. Carrie Williams Clifford, "My Baby (On Reading 'Souls of Black Folk')" (1911)
  21. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Taps" (1922)
  22. John Frederick Matheus, "In the Night" (1920)
  23. Chapter 4c: Black Motherhood in an Era of Systemic Racism, 1920-1929
  24. Clara Ann Thompson, "The After-Glow of Pain" (1908)
  25. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Utopia" (1922)
  26. Clara Ann Thompson, "A Lullaby" (1908)
  27. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother" (1854)
  28. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son" (1924)
  29. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Deceived" (1922)
  30. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Auction" (1854)
  31. Langston Hughes, "Lullaby" (1926)
  32. Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, "The Angel's Visit" (1888)
  33. Gladys May Casely-Hayford, "Lullaby" (1929)
  34. Poems by Jessie Fauset in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  35. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Maternity" (1922)
  36. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Benediction" (1922)
  37. Edward Silvera (Edward S. Silvera), "Mother" (1931)
  38. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Our Women of the Canteen" (1922)
  39. Josephine Turpin Washington, "To Elizabeth" (1907)
  40. Poems by John Wesley Holloway in the "Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  41. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Despair" (1918)
  42. James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)
  43. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Soldier" (1922)
  44. Charlotte E. Linden, "The Prospect of the Future" (1907)
  45. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Little Son" (1922)
  46. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little Mother (Upon the Lynching of Mary Turner" (1922)
  47. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Boy" (1917)
  48. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Mothers of America" (1922)
  49. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Guardianship" (1917)