Chapter II: The Present Renaissance of the Negro 51

I. A Glance at the Field 51

II. Some Representatives of the Present Era 70

1. The Cotters, Father and Son 70

2. James David Corrothers 85

3. A Group of Singing Johnsons:

James Weldon Johnson 90

Charles Bertram Johnson 95

Fenton Johnson 99

Adolphus Johnson 104

4. William Stanley Braithwaite 105

5. George Reginald Margetson 109

6. William Moore 111

7. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. 113

8. Walter Everette Hawkins 119

9. Claude McKay 126

10. Leslie Pinckney Hill 131

CHAPTER III

THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD 139

1. Miss Eva A. Jessye 139

2. Mrs. J. W. Hammond 142

3. Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 144

4. Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson 148

5. Miss Angelina W. Grimké 152

6. Mrs. Anne Spencer 156

7. Miss Jessie Fauset 160

CHAPTER IV

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA 163

I. Per Aspera 163

1. Edward Smythe Jones 163

2. Raymond Garfield Dandridge 169

3. George Marion McClellan 173

4. Charles P. Wilson 179

5. Leon R. Harris 180

6. Irvin W. Underhill 185

II. Ad Astra 187

1. James C. Hughes 187

2. Leland Milton Fisher 189

3. W. Clarence Jordan 190

4. Roscoe C. Jamison 191

CHAPTER V

THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY 197

I. Free Verse 197

1. Will Sexton 197

2. Andrea Razafkeriefo 197

3. Langston Hughes 200

II. Prose Poems 201

1. W. E. Burghardt DuBois 201

2. Kelly Miller 206

3. Charles H. Conner 209

4. William Edgar Bailey 213

5. R. Nathaniel Dett 214

CHAPTER VI

DIALECT VERSE 218

1. Waverly Turner Carmichael 219

2. Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. 220

3. Raymond Garfield Dandridge 221

4. Sterling M. Means 222

5. J. Mord Allen 223

6. James Weldon Johnson 226

7. Theodore Henry Shackleford 228

CHAPTER VII

THE POETRY OF PROTEST 229

Lucian B. Watkins 237