Countee Cullen The Black Christ


The
Black Christ


by Countee Cullen


[ 1903 –
1946 ]


“With
Decorations by Charles Cullen”

Harper
& Brothers Publishers, 1929



a selection of images

         


(Most plates sourced from the blog entry
of: Scripta
Manet


The blog of Special Collections and Rare Books University
of Missouri Libraries)


The Black Christ is referenced in
the essay
“Anti-Lynching
Poems in the 1930s”
by Jon
Woodson




   




   




   




   








Left: Copper Sun Front Dustjacket;  Right:
Dustjacket Back from
U*Space Gallery
,

illustrated by Charles Cullen (no relation to
Countee Cullen)