Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Emancipators" (1917)
Black America! In Fame's Hall go place
This group ; where naught can e'er erase
A single noble character, or dim one glorious deed ;
For they were sowers of the seed —
John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, amid his gallant boys :
Elijah Lovejoy, who gave all, at Alton, Illinois;
And Lincoln, martyred Lincoln ! Felled by a traitor's blow ;
Douglass, Phillips, Garrison,
and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Published in Penciled Poems, 1917