| Description |
76 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
This is the first known master's thesis created by a Black student at Pittsburg State University. |
| Thesis |
Thesis (M. S.)--Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, 1937. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: leaves 60-61. |
| Summary |
Abstract: "The problem of this thesis is to compile an anthology of poems by American Negro writers which will portray the outstanding characteristics of the Negro race and to give comments and notes on the poems. Questionnaires were sent to two hundred college-trained Negroes living in the state of Oklahoma to find out what they thought were the outstanding characteristics of the Negro. The ten highest ranking traits, in the opinion of those questioned, were selected as typical of the Negro. These traits were ranked in the following order: musical, cheerful, emotional, hilarious, carefree, imitative, boisterous, humorous, witty, and reverent. Poems were selected to portray the above-mentioned distinctions. The writer finds that the poetry of Negro writers reflects typical Negro characteristics; therefore the dialect poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, John Wesley Holloway, and Langston Hughes are especially useful in this study." |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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| Added Author |
Morgan, Archie Lee.
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