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Lifetime: 1881 - 1968 Passed: ≈ 56 years ago

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Edward Smyth Jones

Books by Edward Smyth Jones

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Book of American Negro Poetry

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to th...