9780767918466 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, November 2, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A compilation of African-American poetry captures the voices of the black experience in works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Ishmael Reed, and other distinguished writers.

9780679406259 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A noted scholar discusses such topics as the American myths of race and class, the link between poetry and politics, the poverty of American education, and African-American literature by women

9780679747628 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A noted scholar discusses such topics as the American myths of race and class, the link between poetry and politics, the poverty of American education, and African-American literature by women

9780807032350 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Tender, witty, and passionate poems express impressions of human scenes, often colored by an awareness of race

9780804511421 | Spoken Arts, December 1, 1978, cover price $10.95

9780030851131 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $3.59 | About this edition: Twenty black and Puerto Rican children write their poetic impressions of growing up in the ghettos of America.

9780690888546 | Ty Crowell Co, June 1, 1969, cover price $10.35 | About this edition: A poem exploring the condition, feelings, and ideas of blacks in a white society illustrated by reproductions of paintings depicting the life of blacks in America throughout history.