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  1. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Wings of Oppression" (Full Text) (1921)
  2. William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Negro in American Literature" (1925)
  3. Countee Cullen, "Harsh World That Lashest Me (For Walter White)" (1925)
  4. James D. Corrothers, "The Road to the Bow" (1913)
  5. Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)
  6. Josephine Heard, "Morning Glories" (Full Text) (1890)
  7. Claude McKay, "In Bondage" (1921)
  8. Claude McKay, "Africa" (1921)
  9. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  10. Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)
  11. Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)
  12. Langston Hughes, "As I Grew Older" (1926)
  13. Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark Peoples" (1924)
  14. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  15. James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)
  16. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  17. Edward S. Silvera, "Jungle Taste" (1926)
  18. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  19. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God"/"The Prayers of God" (1914)
  20. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  21. Claude McKay, "The White City" (1921)
  22. James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)
  23. Annette Brown, "The Wishing Game" (1920)
  24. Countee Cullen, "A Song of Praise (For one who praised his lady's being fair)" (1924)
  25. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  26. Langston Hughes, "Poem" ("The Night is Beautiful...") (1923)
  27. Claude McKay, "Wild May" (1922)
  28. Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)
  29. Claude McKay, "Harlem Shadows (poem)" (1922)
  30. James D. Corrothers, "Up! Sing the Song" (1913)
  31. Claude McKay, "Heritage" (1922)
  32. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  33. Claude McKay, "Outcast" (1922)
  34. James D. Corrothers, "Listen, O Isles!" (1914)
  35. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  36. Countee Cullen, "Near White" (1925)
  37. James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)
  38. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  39. J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)
  40. Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)
  41. Claude McKay, "Harlem Dancer" (1917)
  42. Countee Cullen, "The Shroud of Color (For Llewellyn Ransom)" (1925)
  43. Countee Cullen, "Pagan Prayer" (1924)
  44. Edward S. Silvera, "Color" (1927)
  45. Andrea Razafkeriefo, "In Flanders Fields..." (1920)
  46. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  47. Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)
  48. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  49. Langston Hughes, "Winter Sweetness" (1921)
  50. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Tenebris" (1927)
  51. T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
  52. Helene Johnson, "Ah My Race" (1925)
  53. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  54. Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
  55. Poems by Charles Bertram Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  56. Lucian B. Watkins, "Little Black Boy" (1921)
  57. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  58. Walter Everett Hawkins, "Child of the Night" (1924)
  59. Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)
  60. E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)
  61. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  62. Arna Bontemps, "God Give to Men" (1925)
  63. Poems by Lucian B. Watkins in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  64. James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)
  65. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)
  66. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  67. Claude McKay, "Exhortation: Summer 1919" (1920)
  68. Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "Morning Light" (1918)
  69. Langston Hughes, "Lullaby" (1926)
  70. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  71. Effie Lee Newsome, "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)" (1922)
  72. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  73. Arna Bontemps, "Homing" (1926)
  74. James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)
  75. Clara Burrill Bruce, "We Who Are Dark" (1918)
  76. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  77. O.M. Skinner, "Lord, Lift Our Race" (1921)
  78. Fenton Johnson, "S. Coleridge Taylor" (1915)
  79. Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)
  80. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Heritage" (1917)
  81. Langston Hughes, "Fascination" (1924)
  82. William H.A. Moore, "Sonnet" (1925)
  83. Langston Hughes, "Shadows" (1923)
  84. Arna Bontemps, "Holiday" (1926)
  85. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  86. Clara G. Stillman, "Dark Dream" (1923)
  87. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Crucifixion" (1925)
  88. Langston Hughes, "Poem" (1927)
  89. James Weldon Johnson, "The White Witch" (1915)
  90. Langston Hughes, "Liars" (1925)
  91. Effie Lee Newsome, "Negro Street Serenade (In the South)" (1926)
  92. Yetta Kay Stoddard, "E Pluribus Unum" (1920)
  93. James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)
  94. Edward S. Silvera, "White Vanity" (1926)
  95. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)
  96. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Old Black Men" (1927)
  97. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son" (1924)
  98. The City's Love by Claude McKay
  99. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)
  100. O.M. Skinner, "Give Me the Rainbow" (1921)
  101. Langston Hughes, "Ruby Brown" (1926)
  102. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Kindergarten Song" (1920)
  103. J. Harvey L. Baxter, "Paint Me A God" (1927)
  104. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  105. Anita Scott Coleman, "The Colorist" (1925)
  106. P.M. Claudius de Suze, "Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  107. Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)
  108. Wendell Phillips Gladden, Jr. "May-Queen" (1920)
  109. Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  110. Countee Cullen, "Uncle Jim" (1927)
  111. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  112. George Reginald Margetson, "The Surge of Life" (1925)
  113. Aurelia S. Caine, "The Colored Child's Lamentations" (1921)
  114. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  115. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  116. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  117. Madeline G. Allison, "Children of the Sun" (1920)
  118. Roasalie M. Jonas, "Crowded Out" (1924)
  119. Countee Cullen, "The Litany of the Dark People" (1927)
  120. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unsung Heroes" (1903)
  121. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Our Women of the Canteen" (1922)
  122. Thomas H. Brooks, "The U.N.I.A." (1921)
  123. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  124. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  125. Wallace Thurman, "The Last Citadel" (1926)
  126. Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)
  127. Orlando C.W. Taylor, "In Flanders Fields--An Echo" (1920)
  128. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Potency" (1919)
  129. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  130. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  131. Claude McKay, "Invocation" (1917)
  132. Poems by Ray G. Dandridge in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)