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Title Author Year
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes 1926
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth Salaam Green 2025
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
From “traslaciones” [to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts] Wingston González 2026
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Strong Men Sterling A. Brown 1922
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
O Black and Unknown Bards James Weldon Johnson 1922
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
America Is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017

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