African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Racism

Contents of this tag:

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