African-American Collection

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