| Description |
64 p. ; 13 cm. |
| Series |
Little blue book; no. 626
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| Note |
Published 11 December 1924; copies deposited at Library of Congress 24 December 1924; copyright renewed 19 June 1952. |
| Contents |
An evening thought / Jupiter Hammon -- Imagination. To Maecenas. His excellency Gen. Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- The Negro spirituals: Freedom. De Gospel train. Hard trials. No hiding place. Better mind, sister. I lay dis body down. You may bury me in de east. Deep river. Swing low, sweet chariot. Go down, Moses -- Negro folk verses: Love is just a thing of fancy. Jaybird and bullfrog. Brag and boast. Aspiration. Tails. Simon Slick's mule. As I wuz ridin' by. She hug me an' she kiss me. The newly weds. Master killed a big bull. Prayer. An' he never will. I would rather be a Negro. Promises of freedom. Run, nigger, run. Die in the pig-pen fighting. Jubilee -- The progress of liberty / James Madison Bell -- From "The rape of Florida" / Albery A. Whitman -- A butterfly in church. The feet of Judas / George Marion McClellan. |
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(cont.) The don't-care Negro / Joseph Seamon Cotter -- Calling the doctor / John Wesley Holloway -- De cunjah man / James Edwin Campbell -- At the closed gate of justice / James D. Corrothers -- From Fifty years: 1863-1913. To America. The black mammy. Mother night. Beauty that is never old. An explanation. From The creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Precedent. Theology. Harriet Beecher Stowe. On an old book with uncut leaves. Lover's lane. Angelina. Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- I sit and sew / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Sic vita. Del Cascar. It's a long way / William Stanley Braithwaite -- A prayer of the race that God made black / Lucian B. Watkins -- Song. My people. So much. Serenity / Charles Bertram Johnson -- Tuskegee. The teacher / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- A winter twilight / Angelina Grimke -- The poet. Zalka Peetruza / Ray G. Dandridge |
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(cont.) The Rubinstein staccato etude / R. Nathaniel Dett -- Sorrow singers. The passing of the ex-slave. Little son. The suppliant / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- The Negro soldiers / Roscoe C. Jamison -- Credo / Walter Everette Hawkins -- Flag of the free / Edward Smythe Jones -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- America. The wild goat. Enslaved. On the road. Rest in peace. The Harlem dancer. The lynching. If we must die / Claude McKay -- Keep me, Jesus, keep me. The day of repentance / Waverly Turner Carmichael -- La vie c'est la vie. Dead fires / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The band of Gideon / Joesph Seamon Cotter. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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| Added Author |
Wood, Clement, 1888-1950.
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Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-approximately 1800.
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Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
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Bell, James Madison, 1826-1902.
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Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901.
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McClellan, George Marion, 1860-
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Holloway, John Wesley, 1865-
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Campbell, James Edwin, 1867-1896.
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Corrothers, James David, 1869-1917.
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
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Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935.
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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
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Watkins, Lucian Bottown, 1878-
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Johnson, Charles Bertram.
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Hill, Leslie Pinckney, 1880-1960.
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Grimke, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958.
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Dandridge, Raymond Garfield.
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Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943.
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Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966.
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Jamison, Roscoe C., 1888-1918.
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Hawkins, Walter Everette.
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Jones, Edward Smyth, 1881-1968.
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Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958.
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McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
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Carmichael, Waverly Turner.
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Fauset, Jessie Redmon.
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Cotter, Joseph Seamon, 1861-1949
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