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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
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 "book": "Poetry",
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  "year": 1925,
  "venue": "The Messenger 7.7 (July 1925)",
  "note": "Located in the issue scan at marxists.org under the heading “Prejudice” and signed “Georgia Douglas Johnson.”, printed immediately below “Promise”. All seven lines agree with the corpus text. The corpus’s other “Prejudice” is the Bronze poem and is a separate record.",
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   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-promise-and-prejudice-1925"
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   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/poems-by-georgia-douglas-johnson-in-the-new-negro-1925",
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   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-an-autumn-love-cycle-full-text-1928",
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   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-poems-published-in-the-crisis-1910-1926",
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    "text": "The world is dark,",
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   {
    "text": "I cannot see my way!",
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    "text": "Eternal clouds",
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