This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson's collection inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish a firm African-American literary tradition in the United States.
01 - My Escape from Slavery - Frederick Douglass
02 - The Feet of Judas - George Marion McClellan
03 - I Want to Die While You Love Me (LH) - Georgia Douglas Johnson
04 - I Want to Die While You Love Me (PW) - Georgia Douglas Johnson
05 - A Negro Love Song - Paul Laurence Dunbar
06 - Question - Langston Hughes
07 - Sonnet - Alice Dunbar-Nelson
08 - Sunset - Paul Lawrence Dunbar
09 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
10 Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves - William Stanley Braithwaite
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