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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Question

Harriet Monroe

THEY were sauntering down the red road

As I passed them—

The round-lipped black woman and her child.

And the child was saying:

“Why’s white folks better’n us, Mammy?

What’s white folks, anyhow?”