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