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

PREFACE

There is, perhaps, a better excuse for giving an Anthology of American
Negro Poetry to the public than can be offered for many of the anthologies
that have recently been issued. The public, generally speaking, does not
know that there are American Negro poets--to supply this lack of
information is, alone, a work worthy of somebody's effort.

Moreover, the matter of Negro poets and the production of literature by
the colored people in this country involves more than supplying
information that is lacking. It is a matter which has a direct bearing on
the most vital of American problems.

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one
measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final
measure of the greatness of all peoples is the a