The Book of American Negro Poetry by Otto Leyland Bohanan, Alex Rogers, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Joshua Henry Jones Jr., Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr., William H.A. Moore, John Wesley Holloway, James D. Corrothers, Theodore Henry Shackelford, George Reginald Margetson, James Edwin Campbell, Charles Bertram Johnson, Lucian Bottow Watkins, Fenton Johnson, Roscoe C. Jamison, Raymond Garfield Dandridge, Claude McKay, Daniel Webster Davis, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Jessie Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, George Marion McClellan, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Waverly Turner Carmichael, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edward Smyth Jones
The Book of American Negro Poetry

Otto Leyland Bohanan, Alex Rogers, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Joshua Henry Jones Jr., Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr., William H.A. Moore, John Wesley Holloway, James D. Corrothers, Theodore Henry Shackelford, George Reginald Margetson, James Edwin Campbell, Charles Bertram Johnson, Lucian Bottow Watkins, Fenton Johnson, Roscoe C. Jamison, Raymond Garfield Dandridge, Claude McKay, Daniel Webster Davis, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Jessie Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, George Marion McClellan, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Waverly Turner Carmichael, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edward Smyth Jones

176 pages first pub 1922 (editions)

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The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important figure. Johnson was active in almost every aspect of American civil life and became one of...

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