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Racism

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  1. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Wings of Oppression" (Full Text) (1921)
  2. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet: to the Mantled" (1917)
  3. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  4. Helene Johnson, "Fiat Lux" (1926)
  5. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)
  6. Arthur Tunnell, "On Segregation" (1914)
  7. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)
  8. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  9. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  10. Langston Hughes, "The White Ones" (1924)
  11. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  12. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Black Woman" (1922)
  13. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Foraker and the Twenty-Fifth" (1911)
  14. Langston Hughes, "The Childhood of Jimmy: Six Pictures in the Head of a Negro Boy" (1927)
  15. Josephine Heard, "The Black Samson" (1890)
  16. Claude McKay, "America" (1921)
  17. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  18. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Hegira" (1917)
  19. Ethyl Lewis, "The Optimist" (1920)
  20. "Afro-American" by Charles Frederick White (1900)
  21. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)
  22. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  23. Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove”   (1916)
  24. Fenton Johnson, "Tired" (1919)
  25. Cora J. Ball Moten, "A Lullaby" (1914)
  26. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Motherhood" / "Black Woman" (1922)
  27. O.M. Skinner, "From Afric's Sunny Shore" (1921)
  28. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Jim Crow Car" (1911)
  29. James H. Young, "I'll Win" (1927)
  30. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, "The 'Jim Crow' Car" (1900)
  31. Anne Spencer, "Lady, Lady" (1925)
  32. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  33. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)
  34. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "O Little David, Play on Your Harp" (1918)
  35. Virginia P. Jackson, "Africa" (1919)
  36. Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
  37. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  38. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  39. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1922)
  40. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Prejudice" (1919)
  41. J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)
  42. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  43. Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)
  44. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Foraker and the Twenty-Fifth" (1911)
  45. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  46. Countee Cullen, "Confession" (1926)
  47. Archibald H. Grimke, "She Hanged Them, Her Thirteen Black Soldiers" (1919)
  48. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  49. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  50. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  51. Daniel B. Thompson, "A Query" (1907)
  52. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)
  53. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Address to Ethiopia" (1900)
  54. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  55. Countee Cullen, "Colors" (1927) (individual poem)
  56. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  57. Carrie Williams Clifford (Carrie W. Clifford), "Appeal" (1928)
  58. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  59. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Shall I Say 'My Son, You Are Branded'?" (1919)
  60. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Reply to Thomas Dixon" (1911)
  61. Otto Bohanan, "Paean" (1915)
  62. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Maternity" (1922)
  63. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "To a Little Colored Boy" (1900)
  64. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "So Quietly" (1921)
  65. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Tenebris" (1927)
  66. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  67. Aurelia S. Caine, "The Colored Child's Lamentations" (1921)
  68. James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)
  69. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  70. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "And What Shall You Say?" (1927)
  71. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)
  72. Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
  73. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)
  74. James D. Corrothers, "At the Closed Gate of Justice" (1913)
  75. James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)
  76. James D. Corrothers, "An Awful Problem Solved" (1903)
  77. Lizelia A.J. Moorer, "Prejudice" (1907)
  78. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  79. Langston Hughes, "Minstrel Man" (1925)
  80. Claude McKay, "The Little Peoples" (1919)
  81. Carrie Williams Clifford, "My Baby (On Reading 'Souls of Black Folk')" (1911)
  82. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  83. Rev. Joseph G. Bryant, “Wounded Liberty” (1906)
  84. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922)
  85. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Character or Color--Which?" (1911)
  86. Harriette Shadow Butcher, "The Memory of Colonel Charles Denton Young" (1925)
  87. E. Lucien Waithe, "Hymn to America" (1925)
  88. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  89. Carrie Singleton, "The Jolly Little Brownskin Boy" (1902)
  90. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  91. Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)
  92. Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)
  93. Katherine D. Tillman, "A Southern Incident" (1902)
  94. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Boy" (1917)
  95. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Homing Braves" (1922)
  96. Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford
  97. E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)
  98. Frank Horne, "On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church" (1927)
  99. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Passing of the Ex-Slave" (1918)
  100. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Joseph Pulitzer" (1911)
  101. Katherine D. Tillman, "Color" (1902)
  102. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Guardianship" (1917)
  103. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  104. Charles D. Clem, "Things to Remember" (1902)
  105. James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)
  106. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  107. Katherine D. Tillman, "Bashy" (1902)
  108. Arna Bontemps, "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" (1927)
  109. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Courier" (1926)
  110. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)