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The Book of American Negro Poetry
By James Weldon Johnson
Length3h 58m
About this audiobook
First published in 1922, "The Book of American Negro Poetry" is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers.
This anthology collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more.
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GenrePoetry, General Fiction, Literary Classics
Length3 hrs 58 mins
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Publish dateAug 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
18Georgia Douglas Johnson
2Paul Laurence Dunbar
19Claude McKay
3James Edwin Campbell
20Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
4James D. Corrothers
21Roscoe C. Jamison
5Daniel Webster Davis
22Jessie Fauset
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6William H.A. Moore
23Anne Spencer
7W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
24Alex Rogers
8George Marion McClellan
25Waverley Turner Carmichael
9William Stanley Braithwaite
26Alice Dunbar-Nelson
10George Reginald Margetson
27Charles Bertram Johnson
11James Weldon Johnson
28Otto Leland Bohanan
12John Wesley Holloway
29Theodore Henry Shackelford
13Leslie Pinckney Hill
30Lucian B. Watkins
14Edward Smyth Jones
31Benjamin Brawley
15Ray G. Dandridge
32Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
16Fenton Johnson
33Appendix
17R. Nathaniel Dett
34Biographical Index Of Authors
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