Introductory material
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PREFACE
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover's Lane The Debt The Haunted Oak When de Co'n Pone's Hot A Death Song
JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray Compensation
JAMES D. CORROTHERS At the Closed Gate of Justice Paul Laurence Dunbar The Negro Singer The Road to the Bow In the Matter of Two Men An Indignation Dinner Dream and the Song
DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS 'Weh Down Souf Hog Meat
WILLIAM H. A. MOORE Dusk Song It Was Not Fate
W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS A Litany of Atlanta
GEORGE MARION McCLELLAN Dogwood Blossoms A Butterfly in Church The Hills of Sewanee The Feet of Judas
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Sandy Star and Willie Gee I. Sculptured Worship II. Laughing It Out III. The Exit IV. The Way V. Onus Probandi Del Cascar Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves Ironic: LL.D Scintilla Sic Vita Rhapsody
GEORGE REGINALD MARGETSON Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON O Black and Unknown Bards Sence You Went Away The Creation The White Witch Mother Night O Southland Brothers Fifty Years
JOHN WESLEY HOLLOWAY Miss Melerlee Calling the Doctor The Corn Song Black Mammies
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Tuskegee Christmas at Melrose Summer Magic The Teacher
EDWARD SMYTH JONES A Song of Thanks
RAY G. DANDRIDGE Time to Die 'Ittle Touzle Head Zalka Peetruza Sprin' Fevah De Drum Majah
FENTON JOHNSON Children of the Sun The New Day Tired The Banjo Player The Scarlet Woman
R. NATHANIEL DETT The Rubinstein Staccato Etude
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON The Heart of a Woman Youth Lost Illusions I Want to Die While You Love Me Welt My Little Dreams
CLAUDE McKAY The Lynching If We Must Die To the White Fiends The Harlem Dancer Harlem Shadows After the Winter Spring in New Hampshire The Tired Worker The Barrier To O. E. A Flame-Heart Two-an'-Six
JOSEPH S. COTTER, JR. A Prayer And What Shall You Say Is It Because I Am Black? The Band of Gideon Rain Music Supplication
ROSCOE C. JAMISON The Negro Soldiers
JESSIE FAUSET La Vie C'est la Vie Christmas Eve in France Dead Fires Oriflamme Oblivion
ANNE SPENCER Before the Feast of Shushan At the Carnival The Wife-Woman Translation Dunbar
ALEX ROGERS Why Adam Sinned The Rain Song
WAVERLEY TURNER CARMICHAEL Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me Winter Is Coming
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON Sonnet
CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON A Little Cabin Negro Poets
OTTO LEYLAND BOHANAN The Dawn's Awake! The Washer-Woman
THEODORE HENRY SHACKLEFORD The Big Bell in Zion
LUCIAN B. WATKINS Star of Ethiopia Two Points of View To Our Friends
BENJAMIN BRAWLEY My Hero Chaucer
JOSHUA HENRY JONES, JR. To a Skull