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Contents of this tag:

  1. Albery A. Whitman, "Not a Man, Yet a Man" (full text) (1877)
  2. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  3. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown" (1922)
  4. Frances E.W. Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land' (1858)
  5. Chapter 1b: Revisiting American History via Poetry, 1890-1899
  6. Jessie Fauset, "Oriflamme" (1920)
  7. Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg), "Placido--A Cuban Martyr" (1910)
  8. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  9. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
  10. Langston Hughes, "Aunt Sue's Stories" (1921)
  11. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)
  12. Frances E.W. Harper, "Poems" (Full Text) (1896)
  13. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Unchained 1863" (1914)
  14. Frances E.W. Harper, "Eliza Harris" (1853/1854)
  15. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lincoln" (1922)
  16. Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
  17. Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  18. James Weldon Johnson, "Brothers" (1916)
  19. Fenton Johnson, "Ethiopia" (1915)
  20. Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Majors and Minors" (Full Text) (1895)
  21. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown 1619-1919" (1922)
  22. Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)
  23. Maurice N. Corbett, "Frederick Douglass" (1914)
  24. Eloise A. Bibb, "Eliza In Uncle Tom's Cabin)" (1895)
  25. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negro Labor Changed Dixie" (1914)
  26. Charles Frederick White, "In Honor Of Lincoln" (1896/ 1908)
  27. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Freedom of the Free" (1913)
  28. L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)
  29. Edna Porter, "That Yaller Gal (La. 1924)" (1925)
  30. Maurice N. Corbett, "Negroes Contrabands of War" (1914)
  31. Claude McKay, "Enslaved" (1921)
  32. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Problem And Other Poems" (1905) (full text)
  33. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Honor's Appeal to Justice" (1899)
  34. Mary Ashe Lee, "Afmerica" (1886 version)
  35. James Madison Bell, "The Triumph of Liberty" (1870)
  36. H. Cordelia Ray, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1910)
  37. Fenton Johnson, "Visions of the Dusk" (Full text) (1915)
  38. E.L. Blackshear, "Africa--A Medley" (1904)
  39. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" (1857)
  40. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lines to Garrison" (1911)
  41. Charles Bertram Johnson, "An Old Ex-Slave" (1921)
  42. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Clouds and Sunshine" (Full Text) (1920)
  43. Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Crispus Attucks" (1899)
  44. Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
  45. Countee Cullen, "Three Hundred Years Ago" (1925)
  46. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Dying Bondman" (1895)
  47. Katherine D. Tillman, "Clotelle--A Tale of Florida" (1902)
  48. Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)
  49. Anonymous, "A Remarkable Epitaph" (1907)
  50. Walter Everette Hawkins, "The Black Soldiers" (1909)
  51. Fenton Johnson, "The New Day" (1922)
  52. James Weldon Johnson, "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917)
  53. Katherine D. Tillman, "Seeking the Lost" (1902)
  54. Rosalie Jonas, "The Octoroon Ball" (1911)
  55. Frances E.W. Harper, Poems in "Anthology of Verse by American Negroes" (1924)
  56. Raymond Garfield Dandridge, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1920)
  57. T. Thomas Fortune, "The Bird Has Vanished" (1905)
  58. T. Thomas Fortune, "Nat Turner" (1884)
  59. Frances E.W. Harper, "Fifteenth Amendment" (1871)
  60. Katherine D. Tillman, "America's First Cargo of Slaves" (1902)
  61. Hilary Teague, "Poem" (1903)
  62. Charles Frederick White, "A Historical Review" (1899/1908)
  63. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Present Age" (1896)
  64. Roy Reginald, "Rastus' Soliloquy" (1909)
  65. Henry McNeal Turner, "The Conflict for Civil Rights: A Poem" (1881)
  66. Arna Bontemps, "Old Mansion" (1927)
  67. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  68. Lucian B. Watkins, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1907)
  69. James D. Corrothers, "Juny at the Gate" (1902)
  70. Poems by James Weldon Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  71. Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg), "The Fight for Liberty in St. Lucia" (1911)
  72. J.E. McCall, "When Sampson Sings" (1928)
  73. Langston Hughes, "America" (1925)
  74. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Mother" (1854)
  75. David C. Lee, "Dem Tales Wot Gran-pa Tells" (1902)
  76. Poems by Fenton Johnson in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  77. Frances E.W. Harper, "Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects" (1857)
  78. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)
  79. Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Freedom at McNealy's" (1900)
  80. Augustus M. Hodges, "The Christmas Reunion" (1900)
  81. Harriette Shadow Butcher, "The Memory of Colonel Charles Denton Young" (1925)
  82. Poems by Jessie Fauset in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" (1922)
  83. Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)
  84. Katherine D. Tillman, "Our Cause" (1902)
  85. Fenton Johnson, "The Creed of the Slave" (1915
  86. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Slave Auction" (1854)
  87. Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)
  88. Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Song" (1925)
  89. Sarah Louisa Forten, "The Grave of the Slave" (1831)
  90. Katherine D. Tillman, "A Hymn of Praise" (1902)
  91. Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)
  92. George Reginald Margetson, "Abraham Lincoln" (1928)
  93. Claude McKay, "A Daughter of the American Revolution to Her Son" (1926)
  94. Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, "Pictures" (1920)
  95. Fenton Johnson, "The Soul of Boston" (1915)
  96. Frances E.W. Harper, "The Fugitive's Wife" (1854)
  97. Fenton Johnson, "Songs of the Soil" (1916) (Full text)
  98. Aaron Belford Thompson, "Emancipation" (1899)
  99. Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)
  100. Fenton Johnson, "Douglass" (1915)
  101. Frank B. Coffin, "Only" (1897)
  102. Fenton Johnson, "Slave Death Song" (1915)
  103. Jean Toomer, "Song of the Son" (1922)
  104. Aaron Belford Thompson, "The Chain of Bondage" (1899)
  105. Clara Ann Thompson, "What Means This Bleating of Sheep?" (1921)
  106. H. Cordelia Ray, "In Memoriam (Frederick Douglass)" (1910)
  107. John Riley Dungee, "Unwritten History" (1901)
  108. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)
  109. Frank B. Coffin, "Lincoln's Call" (1897)
  110. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Passing of the Ex-Slave" (1918)
  111. James Weldon Johnson, "Let My People Go" (1927)
  112. T. Thomas Fortune, "Sadie Fontaine" (1905)
  113. Katherine D. Tillman, "Uncle Ned's Story" (1902)
  114. Josephine Heard "Welcome to Hon. Frederick Douglass" (1888)
  115. Kelsey Percival Kitchel, "Slave's Song" (1916)
  116. James D. Corrothers, "The Snapping of the Bow" (1901)
  117. Frank B. Coffin, "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Works (Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1897)