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PREFACE
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To readers who are disposed to study the poetry of the Negro I would commend Dr. James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) and Mr. Arthur A. Schomburg's A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Charles F. Hartman, New York). I am indebted to both these books and authors. To Mr. Schomburg I am also indebted for the loan of many of the pictures of the earlier poets.
R. T. K.
West Chester, Pa.
March 22, 1923.
