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Contents of this tag:

  1. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Wings of Oppression" (Full Text) (1921)
  2. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  3. "The New Negro" (Essay by Alain Locke) (1925)
  4. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown" (1922
  5. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet: to the Mantled" (1917)
  6. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  7. Helene Johnson, "Fiat Lux" (1926)
  8. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "A Sonnet to the Negro Soldiers" (1918)
  9. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)
  10. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)
  11. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  12. Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove”   (1916)
  13. Arthur Tunnell, "On Segregation" (1914)
  14. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)
  15. Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)
  16. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Frederick Douglass" (1895)
  17. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women"/"Children of the Sphinx" (1914)
  18. Langston Hughes, "The White Ones" (1924)
  19. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Jim Crow" (1910 / 1922)
  20. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  21. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Black Woman" (1922)
  22. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Foraker and the Twenty-Fifth" (1911)
  23. Langston Hughes, "The Childhood of Jimmy: Six Pictures in the Head of a Negro Boy" (1927)
  24. Josephine Heard, "The Black Samson" (1890)
  25. Claude McKay, "America" (1921)
  26. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  27. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Hegira" (1917)
  28. Ethyl Lewis, "The Optimist" (1920)
  29. "Afro-American" by Charles Frederick White (1900)
  30. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1922)
  31. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Prejudice" (1919)
  32. J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)
  33. Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)
  34. The South by Langston Hughes
  35. Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)
  36. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Foraker and the Twenty-Fifth" (1911)
  37. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  38. William Pickens, "'The Crisis'" (1914)
  39. Countee Cullen, "Confession" (1926)
  40. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1917)
  41. Archibald H. Grimke, "She Hanged Them, Her Thirteen Black Soldiers" (1919)
  42. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  43. Fenton Johnson, "Tired" (1919)
  44. Cora J. Ball Moten, "A Lullaby" (1914)
  45. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Motherhood" / "Black Woman" (1922)
  46. O.M. Skinner, "From Afric's Sunny Shore" (1921)
  47. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Jim Crow Car" (1911)
  48. Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)
  49. James H. Young, "I'll Win" (1927)
  50. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, "The 'Jim Crow' Car" (1900)
  51. Anne Spencer, "Lady, Lady" (1925)
  52. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Clouds and Sunshine" (Full Text) (1920)
  53. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)
  54. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)
  55. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "O Little David, Play on Your Harp" (1918)
  56. Virginia P. Jackson, "Africa" (1919)
  57. Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
  58. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  59. Clara Ann Thompson, "Songs from the Wayside" (Full Text) (1908)
  60. E. Lucien Waithe, "Hymn to America" (1925)
  61. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  62. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  63. Carrie Singleton, "The Jolly Little Brownskin Boy" (1902)
  64. Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)
  65. Anne Spencer, "White Things" (1923)
  66. Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)
  67. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Boy" (1917)
  68. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Homing Braves" (1922)
  69. Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford
  70. Katherine D. Tillman, "A Southern Incident" (1902)
  71. Frank Horne, "On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church" (1927)
  72. E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)
  73. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Passing of the Ex-Slave" (1918)
  74. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Joseph Pulitzer" (1911)
  75. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Guardianship" (1917)
  76. Katherine D. Tillman, "Color" (1902)
  77. Charles D. Clem, "Things to Remember" (1902)
  78. James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)
  79. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  80. James D. Corrothers, Poems included in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  81. Katherine D. Tillman, "Bashy" (1902)
  82. Arna Bontemps, "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" (1927)
  83. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "One of the Least of These, My Little One" (1922)
  84. Lucy Ariel Williams, "Northboun'" (1926)
  85. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Courier" (1926)
  86. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)
  87. Daniel B. Thompson, "A Query" (1907)
  88. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  89. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)
  90. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Address to Ethiopia" (1900)
  91. Countee Cullen, "Colors" (1927) (individual poem)
  92. Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)
  93. Carrie Williams Clifford (Carrie W. Clifford), "Appeal" (1928)
  94. Poems by Claude McKay in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  95. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  96. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Shall I Say 'My Son, You Are Branded'?" (1919)
  97. Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Reply to Thomas Dixon" (1911)
  98. Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown 1619-1919 by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
  99. Otto Bohanan, "Paean" (1915)
  100. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Maternity" (1922)
  101. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "To a Little Colored Boy" (1900)
  102. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "So Quietly" (1921)
  103. Angelina Weld Grimke, "Tenebris" (1927)
  104. Roscoe C. Jamison, "Negro Soldiers" (1917
  105. Poems by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  106. Aurelia S. Caine, "The Colored Child's Lamentations" (1921)
  107. James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)
  108. Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
  109. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  110. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "And What Shall You Say?" (1927)
  111. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)
  112. Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
  113. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)
  114. James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)
  115. James D. Corrothers, "At the Closed Gate of Justice" (1913)
  116. Claude McKay, "Roman Holiday" (1919)
  117. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
  118. James D. Corrothers, "An Awful Problem Solved" (1903)
  119. Lizelia A.J. Moorer, "Prejudice" (1907)
  120. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  121. Langston Hughes, "Minstrel Man" (1925)
  122. Claude McKay, "The Little Peoples" (1919)
  123. Elma Ehrlich Levinger, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1924)
  124. Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. "Band of Gideon: and Other Poems" (Full text) (1918)
  125. Carrie Williams Clifford, "My Baby (On Reading 'Souls of Black Folk')" (1911)
  126. Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)
  127. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922)
  128. Rev. Joseph G. Bryant, “Wounded Liberty” (1906)
  129. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Character or Color--Which?" (1911)
  130. Harriette Shadow Butcher, "The Memory of Colonel Charles Denton Young" (1925)