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Title

Sing a battle song : poems / by women in the Weather Underground Organization.

Publication

[United States : Weather Underground Organization, 1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

Weather Underground Organization.

Description

48 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Light tan, saddle-stapled wrappers with yellow pages, with text in typescript mimeograph.
• Front wrapper illustrated with photograph of Guatemalan spirit mask surrounded by hand-drawn title and decorative lozenges.
• Collection of anonymous poetry from the Women of the Weather Underground, the radical left organization founded in 1969.
• “This is a women's book. During these years we have been part of the righteous struggles for the liberation of women. The active and principled sisterhood of women is a crucial part of the struggle to free all people. Unity among women enables us to be vigilant and forceful against sexism, to encourage and strengthen each other, and to develop a culture of resistance. We have worked hard to build a women's community: developing programs around women's issues, growing as fighters, reclaiming the true history of the people, and developing an ideology that integrates women's experience with that of the people as a whole.”—From the introduction, dated January 1975

Subject

• American poetry > Women authors
• American poetry > 20th century
• Anti-imperialist movements > United States > Poetry
• Anti-racism > United States > Poetry
• Black Power > United States > 20th century > Poetry
• Civil rights > United States > 20th century > Poetry
• Feminism > United States > Poetry
• Lesbians > Poetry > United States > 20th century
• Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century > Poetry
• Revolutionary poetry
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > Poetry

Genre/Form

Lesbians' writings, American.

Note

• Facsimile edition printed for distribution on International Women's Day on March 8, 1975, probably on the same day that the original edition was published (statement on inside of back wrapper).
• The poets were in hiding from U.S. law enforcement agencies because of their suspected roles in violent crimes committed to protest the War in Vietnam, racism, and socio-economic injustice.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture Weather Underground S56 1975

OCLC

10920912

Title

Sing a battle song : poems / by women in the Weather Underground Organization.

Imprint

[United States : Weather Underground Organization, 1975]

Access

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Added Author

Weather Underground Organization.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture Weather Underground S56 1975