First printing of an early literary anthology of Black writers and poets, published at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance and edited by the widow of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, an author in her own right, as well as an active suffragette and political reformer. Selections from Dunbar himself, as well as William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chestnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Grimke, T. Thomas Fortune – and Alexander Pushkin, the great Russian romantic poet, who was descended from an Ethiopian prince held captive in Turkey.