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Title Author Year
God Was Willing Sis: I’m Home Mona Lisa Saloy 2022
The Nightingale to the Workman Morris Rosenfeld 1914
Corazón in Fall Emma Trelles 2020
Notes from a Pioneer on a Speck in Space Lew Welch 2012
[I seek for rhythmic whisperings] Zinaida Gippius 1921
The Big Bell in Zion Theodore Henry Shackelford 1922
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
Despair Elsa Gidlow 1923
Oversoul Elsa Gidlow 1923
Two-An’-Six Claude McKay 1922
Commemoration Claude McKay 1922
Mnasidika Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Corn Song John Wesley Holloway 1922
Sandy Star William Stanley Braithwaite 1922
Dusk Song William Moore 1922
It Was Not Fate William Moore 1922
’Weh Down Souf Daniel Webster Davis 1922
The Ascent Dudley Randall 2009
Laughter in the Slums Dudley Randall 2009
The Negro Singer James D. Corrothers 1922

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