Other Poets: full text collections
Some figures had complex heritage; Ada Isaacs Menken, for instance, was of mixed Jewish and African American heritage.
While the whole books will perhaps mainly be of interest to readers with a deep interest in this period in African American poetry, many of the poets stick to certain themes, including occasional poetry, dedications to luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and commemorations of the end of the Civil War and Emancipation.