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Progress & Uplift

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Poems featuring themes of progress and uplift for the African American community

Contents of this tag:

  1. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "To Usward" (1924)
  2. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "A Sonnet to the Negro Soldiers" (1918)
  3. Ethyl Lewis, "The Optimist" (1920)
  4. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "A Hero of San Juan [Hill]" (1899)
  5. Otto Bohanan, "The Dawn's Awake!" (1917)
  6. Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)
  7. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Dawn" (1904)
  8. Langston Hughes, "Youth" (1924)
  9. James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)
  10. Joseph S. Cotter, "The Prophet" (1920)
  11. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  12. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  13. Poems by Charles Bertram Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  14. Poems by Otto Bohanan in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  15. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)
  16. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  17. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Present Age" (1896)