publishers and authors of the volumes I have drawn upon for selections. They are named in the Index and Biographical and Bibliographical Notes at the end of the text. But for the reader's convenience I collect their names here:
Richard E. Badger, publisher of Walter Everette Hawkins's Chords and Discords; A. B. Caldwell, Atlanta, Ga., publisher of Sterling M. Means' The Deserted Cabin and Other Poems; the Cornhill Company, publishers of Waverley Turner Carmichael's From the Heart of a Folk; Joseph S. Cotter's The Band of Gideon; Georgia Douglas Johnson's The Heart of a Woman; Charles Bertram Johnson's Songs of My People; James Weldon Johnson's Fifty Years and Other Poems; Joshua Henry Jones's Poems of the Four Seas; Dodd, Mead and Company, publishers of Dunbar's Poems; the Grafton Press, publishers of H. Cordelia Ray's Poems; Harcourt, Brace & Company, publishers of W. E. Burghardt DuBois's Darkwater; Pritchard and Ovington's The Upward Path; the Macmillan Company, publishers of Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes; the Neale Publishing Company, publishers of Kelley Miller's Out of the House of Bondage; J. L. Nichols & Company, Naperville, Ill., publishers of Mrs. Dunbar-Nelson's The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, and The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar; the Stratford Company, publishers of Joshua Henry Jones's The Heart of the World and Other Poems; and Leslie Pinckney Hill's The Wings of Oppression. It is with their kind permission I am privileged to use selections from the books named. To The Crisis, The Favorite Magazine, and The Messenger, I am indebted for several selections, which I gratefully acknowledge.
