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THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
Chosen and Edited
With An Essay On The Negro's Creative Genius
by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems"
1922 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New York
Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J.