I am the darker brother ; an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans / Drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins.
Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.
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| Other title: | Charles H. Nilon Collection. Florence Becker Lennon Collection. |
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| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Rare Books Collection copy 2 gift of Mildred Nilon. |
| Local Note: | Rare Books Collection copy 3 Florence Becker Lennon Collection. |
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Macmillan,
[1968]
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Table of Contents:
- Me and the Mule / Langston Hughes
- The Rebel / Mari Evans
- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Cross / Langston Hughes
- Aunt Jane Allen / Fenton Johnson
- The Whipping / Robert Hayden
- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
- A Song in the Front Yard / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Flowers of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis
- Juke Box Love Song / Langston Hughes
- The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face / James Weldon Johnson
- Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Bac / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton
- Each Morning / Leroi Jones
- A Moment Please / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey)
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes
- Southern Mansion / Arna Bontemps
- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home / Robert Hayden
- October Journey / Margaret Walker
- Dust Bowl / Robert A. Davis
- A Ballad of Remembrance / Robert Hayden
- Middle Passage / Robert Hayden
- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
- Runagate Runagate / Robert Hayden
- Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall
- Vaticide / Myron O'Higgins
- A Poem for Black Hearts / Leroi Jones
- To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers
- American Gothic / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey)
- When Mahalia Sings / Quandra Prettyman
- Yardbird's Skull / Owen Dodson
- If We Must Die / Claude McKay
- The Lynching / Claude McKay
- "So Quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill
- The Daybreakers / Arna Bontemps
- Song for a Dark Girl / Langston Hughes
- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown
- Between the World and Me / Richard Wright
- I, Too, Sing America / Langston Hughes
- A Black Man Talks of Reaping / Arna Bontemps
- From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen
- On Passing Two Negros on a Dark Country Road Somewhere in Georgia / Conrad Kent Rivers
- Beehive / Jean Toomer
- Tired / Fenton Johnson
- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Sorrow Is the Only Failthful One / Owen Dodson
- If the Stars Should Fall / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey)
- For a Lady I Know / Countee Cullen
- Incident / Countee Cullen
- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Hokku: In the Falling Snow / Richard Wright
- Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen
- The Train Runs Late to Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers
- Award / Ray Durem
- Status Symbol / Mari Evans
- Black Is a Soul / Joseph White
- The Still Voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers
- Dream Variation / Langston Hughes
- Poems for My Brother Kenneth, VII / Owen Dodson
- In Time of Crisis / Raymond Richard Patterson
- The Noonday April Sun / George Love
- After the Winter / Claude McKay
- Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France / Conrad Kent Rivers
- For My People / Margaret Walker.