FIFTY YEARS & OTHER POEMS James Weldon Johnson 1917
The Book of American Negro Poetry Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 [Editor] -- Project Gutenberg
Negro National Anthem - Lift Every Voice And Sing
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 -- Project Gutenberg
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth
POEMS Bibb, Eloise Alberta [aka Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb Thompson] (1878-1928)
Poems on Various Subjects by Phillis Wheatley
Anthology
of magazine verse for 1920 and year book of american poetry
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
Braithwaite, William Stanley The House of Falling Leaves, With Other Poems 1908
Anti-slavery
poems of John Pierpont
Pierpont, John, 1785-1866
Plea
of the negro soldier and a hundred other poems
White, Charles Frederick, b. 1876
George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca. 1880
Life of George M. Horton.
The Colored Bard of North Carolina from "The Poetical Works of George M.
Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of
the Author, written by himself."
Hillsborough: Heartt, 1845.
The
Negro in Earlier American Literature. V. Dialect Writers. Vol. 16. Early
National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
1907–21
...The chief writers who preceded Harris in the attempt to portray negro character
were William Gilmore Simms, 9 Edgar Allan Poe, 10 Harriet Beecher Stowe, 11
Stephen...
Negro
Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson. James Weldon Johnson, ed. 1922. The Book
of American Negro Poetry
...Breaks on our sentient ear. Not yet the gifted child, With notes enraptured,
wild, That storm and throng the heart, To make his rage our own, 10 Our hearts
his lyric...
Importance
to Negro Folk lore. V. Dialect Writers. Vol. 16. Early National Literature,
Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English
and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...which he is the mouthpiece. These tales mark indeed the beginning of the
scientific study of negro folk-lore in America. The author had, however, no
ethnological...
The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself, by George M. Horton
The Negro Race in French Literature, Fernand Masse, The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 18, No. 3. (Jul., 1933), pp. 225-245. (PDF)
A Supplement on Amiri Baraka , Ellison, Baraka, and the Faces of Tradition, Kimberly W. Benston, boundary 2, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Winter, 1978), pp. 333-354. (PDF)
Diamonds within Diamonds within Diamonds: Ethnic Literature and the Fractal Aesthetic, Nina Mikkelsen, MELUS, Vol. 27, No. 2, Multi-Ethnic Children's Literature. (Summer, 2002), pp. 95-116. (PDF)
The Aesthetic Structure of Jean Toomer's Cane, Michael Krasny, Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 9, No. 2. (Summer, 1975), pp. 42-43 (PDF)
Anti-Slavery Poems , Collection of poems by leading antebellum antislavery poet John Pierpont (Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843). (PDF) (DOC)
Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs
of Labor and Reform
John Greenleaf Whittier's canon of antislavery poetry, in a reprint of the original
1850 edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1888). Digitized by the American Verse
Project, University of Michigan.
Nebraska, An epic poem on slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; published anonymously but attributable to journalist-poet George Washington Bungay (Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1854). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF) (MSWORD)
The Night of Freedom , Topical political long poem against slavery, written by William Wallace Hebbard (Boston: Samuel Chism, 1857). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF) (DOC)
The Underground Railroad
A single-page broadsheet poem on the Underground Railroad by Cecilia Devere
(1836-1912), a Shaker community member in New Lebanon, New York. Digitized by
the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
Plea
of the Negro soldier, and a hundred other poems, White, Charles Frederick,
b. 1876 , Easthampton, Mass. : Press of Enterprise printing company
Date [c1908]
NINA BOLE - Civil Rights Poem -- MFDP, CORE, Mississippi, 1965-66
Negro Poetry in the Americas, Dorothy Schons, Hispania, Vol. 25, No. 3, Coester Number. (Oct., 1942), pp. 309-319. (PDF)