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