ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For permission to use the poems in this anthology, the editor wishes to thank the poets represented, and the following magazines and publishers:
Dodd, Mead and Co. for poems from The Collected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Boni and Liveright for poems from Cane by Jean Toomer
Alfred A. Knopf for poems from The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew by Langston Hughes
The Viking Press for "The Creation" from God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
The Cornhill Publishing Co. for poems from The Band of Gideon by Joseph S. Cotter, and from Fifty Years and other Poems by James Weldon Johnson, and from The Heart of a Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Harcourt, Brace & Co. for poems from Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay and for A Litany of Atlanta by W. E. B. DuBois
Harper & Brothers for poems from Color and Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
B. J. Brimmer Co. for poems from Bronze by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life for Desolate and My House by Claude McKay; Old Black Men by Georgia Douglas Johnson; Summer Matures, Fulfillment, The Road by Helene Johnson; Portrait by George Leonard Allen; For the Candlelight by Angelina Weld Grimké; The Return, Golgotha Is a Mountain, The Day Breakers, and God Give to Men by Arna Bontemps; I Have a Rendezvous With Life by Countee Cullen; Lines Written
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