Auction street / Luclile Clifton -- Community / Jacob Lawrence -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Genimi l / Lev T. Millis -- John, who is poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Marbles / Charles Dawson -- Your world / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Landscape with rainbow / Robert Scott Duncanson -- Women / Alice Walker -- Harriet Tubman / William H. Johnson -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Thankful poor / Henry Ossawa Tanner -- Listen Children / Lucille Clifton -- Underground railroad / William H. Johnson -- Fifth grade autobiography / Rita Dove -- Reflection / Hughie Lee-Smith -- Little brown baby / Paul Lawrence Dunbar -- Family / Romare Bearden -- We alone / Alice Walker -- Banjo lesson / Henry Ossawa Tanner -- Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Celebration / Charles Searles -- Aunt Sue's stories / Langston Hughes -- Sharecropper / Elizabeth Catlett -- Primer / Rita Dove -- Library / Jacob Lawrence -- How poems are mad/a discredidted view / Alice Walker -- Can fire in the park / Beauford Delaney -- This morning / Lucille Clifton -- School's out / Allan Rohan Crite -- Night / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Interior / Horace Pippin -- Growing up / E. Ethbert Miller -- Gamin / Augusta Savage -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Saying prayers / Horace Pippin -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Into bondage / Aaron Douglas -- Human family / Maya Angelou -- Figurative compositions #7 / Emilio Cruz -- About the poets and artists
Summary:
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.