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Poetry for Children

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The majority of the materials linked to below are from The Brownies' Book, a magazine published by W.E.B. Du Bois, with Jessie Fauset as the Managing Editor. 

However, there is also an important anthology called The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer published in 1920, which is marketed to "youthful" readers (though it is not exactly "children's literature"). 

Contents of this tag:

  1. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer" (1920)
  2. "The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children" (1920)
  3. Annette Browne, "Little Brown Boy" (1921)
  4. Annie Virginia Culbertson, "The Origin of White Folks" (1920)
  5. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Ancestor" (1920)
  6. Langston Hughes, "Winter Sweetness" (1921)
  7. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Kindergarten Song" (1920)
  8. Lucian B. Watkins, "Little Black Boy" (1921)
  9. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Foreword" to the "Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer" (1920)
  10. Annette Brown, "The Wishing Game" (1920)
  11. Wendell Phillips Gladden, Jr. "May-Queen" (1920)
  12. Langston Hughes, "Fairies" (1921)
  13. Jessie Fauset, "Spring Songs" (1920)
  14. Langston Hughes, "An April Rain Song" (1921)
  15. Jessie Fauset, "After School" (1920)
  16. Madeline G. Allison, "Children of the Sun" (1920)
  17. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)
  18. James Weldon Johnson, "The Tale of a Kitten" (1920)
  19. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Brown Eyes" (1920)
  20. Langston Hughes, "The Gold Piece: A Play that Might be True" (1921)
  21. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Recruit" (1920)
  22. Cecelia Elizabeth, "The Lay of the Nile" (1920)
  23. Langston Hughes, "The Laments of a Vanquished Beau" (1921)
  24. Jessie Fauset, "Dedication (The Brownies' Book)" (1920)
  25. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Children's Manual" (1920)
  26. Langston Hughes, "Autumn Thought" (1921)
  27. Jessie Fauset, "The Story of George Washington" (1920)
  28. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Ideals" (1920)
  29. Langston Hughes, "Those Who Have No Turkey" (1921)
  30. Yetta Kay Stoddard, "E Pluribus Unum" (1920)
  31. Jessie Fauset, "Two Christmas Songs" (1920)
  32. Langston Hughes, "Thanksgiving Time" (1921)
  33. Jessie Fauset, "At the Zoo" (1920)