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CHAPTER VII
THE POETRY OF PROTEST
As elsewhere intimated there is being produced in America a literature of which America, as the term is commonly understood, is not aware. It is a literature of protest—protest sometimes 
Equality and Justice for All
(Photograph of a panel of the Carl Schurz Monument) pathetic and prayerful, sometimes vehement and bitter. It comes from Negro writers, in prose and verse, in the various forms of fiction, drama, essay, editorial, and lyric. It is only with the lyric form that we are here concerned. Of that
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