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African American poetry.

Title
African American poetry.
Publication
  • Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Globe Book Co., ©1993.
  • ©1993

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TextNo restrictions Sc D 96-394Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Additional Authors
Seeley, Virginia
Description
vii, 120 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1999
  • American poetry > African American authors
  • American poetry > 19th century
  • American poetry > 20th century
  • African Americans > Poetry
  • African Americans
  • American poetry
Genre/Form
  • Poetry.
  • Novels.
  • Fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • Survival: many struggles, many triumphs -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Old Black men / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Midway / Naomi Long Madgett -- Love / John Henrik Clarke -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Wise 1 / Amiri Baraka -- To the oppressors / Pauli Murray -- The emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle) / Mari E. Evans -- Obstacles / Layding Kaliba -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- To James / Franke Horne -- Expressions of hope -- The lesson of the falling lives / Lucille Clifton -- The still voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Speech to the young/Speech to the progress toward / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A note of humility / Arna Bontemps -- Encouragement II / John Henrik Clarke -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- from "Dark Testament" / Pauli Murray -- A legacy of pride and strength -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Science / Gordon Nelson -- What color is black / Barbara Mahone -- We are / Hardy Crosslin -- What shall I tell my children who are Black / Margaret Burroughs -- From "African Poems" / Haki Madhubuti -- Women / Alice Walker -- The nature of this flower is to bloom / Alice Walker.
  • Bringing about changes: a call for revolution -- SOS / Amiri Baraka -- Blk/rhetoric / Sonia Sanchez -- Will the real Black people please stand / Desirée Barnwell -- Blessed are those who struggle / Suliaman El Hadi -- Revolutionary poets / Jean Parrish -- Nation / Charlie Cobb -- The revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- Portraits of heroes -- A soliloquy to the Black women of America / Charlotte Brown -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- I know a lady / Joyce Carol Thomas -- A protest poem for Rosa Parks / Abiodun Oyewole -- If we forget / Ja Jahannes -- The funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. / Nikki Giovanni -- For Malcom, U.S.A. / James Emanuel -- Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni -- The fullness of life -- Because / Nikki Giovanni -- Being Black in my neighborhood / Ja Jahannes -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Sense of heritage / Ntozake Shange -- Variety in Black / Denise Brooks -- One time Henry dreamed the number / Doc Long -- Our promise / Phyllis Bynum.
Call Number
Sc D 96-394
ISBN
  • 0835905330
  • 9780835905336
LCCN
93215608
OCLC
28603186
Title
African American poetry.
Publisher
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Globe Book Co., ©1993.
Copyright Date
©1993
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes index.
Chronological Term
1800-1999
Added Author
Seeley, Virginia, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc D 96-394
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