African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Racism

Contents of this tag:

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