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11986	nan	The Book of American Negro Poetry			.txt	text/plain	37554	3774	93	know that there are American Negro poets--to supply this lack of course, she is not a _great_ American poet--and in her day there were Phillis, as we know, was a Negro slave girl born in Africa. Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in But the group of the new Negro poets, whose work makes up the bulk of this Holloway, more than any Negro poet writing in the dialect to-day, I'll sing dis night twel broad day-light, To be a Negro in a day like this-To be a Negro in a day like this-To be a Negro in a day like this-To be a Negro in a day like this-"Merely a Negro"--in a day like this! Behold this maimed and broken thing; dear God, it was an humble black man But whisper--speak--call, great God, for Thy silence is white terror to	./cache/11986.txt	./txt/11986.txt