An Anthology of African American Poetry for Young People

41 SONGS • 30 MINUTES • JAN 01 1990

Langston Hughes: In the Time of Silver Rain

00:53

Countee Cullen: Red

00:32

Josephine Copeland: New Orleans: Zulu King (at Mardi Gras)

01:07

Claude McKay: Tropics in New York

00:58

Langston Hughes: Trip: San Francisco

00:30

Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia

00:52

Langston Hughes: Heaven: The City Called Heaven

00:29

Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle

01:17

Langston Hughes: The Snail

00:19

Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color

00:27

Claude McKay: North and South

01:17

Sterling Brown: Sister Lou

01:56

Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen

00:51

Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player

00:49

Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)

00:54

Countee Cullen: For a Lady I Know

00:19

Sterling Brown: After Winter

01:26

Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness

00:19

George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams

00:32

Countee Cullen: For a Poet

00:37

Langston Hughes: Dreams

00:28

Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers

00:32