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Poetry

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    If you're a Movement veteran listed in the Veterans Roll Call please email your Movement-related poems to webspinner@crmvet.org. (And also the same if you wish to suggest adding a poem from someone else.)

  From the Freedom Movement
  About the Freedom Movement
  The Forerunners

From the Freedom Movement

    Chude Pam Allen (Pam Parker)
           To Be Twenty Again
           For Justice and For Love
           Remembering

    "Arkansas" ("Strider," Jim Benston)
           Ode to Jimmy Lee

    Nina Boal
           Meridian Jail

    Julian Bond
           Look At That Girl
           I Too, Hear America Singing

    Charles Fager
           On Meeting Mrs. Septima Poinsette Clark

    Bruce Hartford
           Mississippi Voter Rally
           Grenada March #107
           The Liberals' Song

    Casey Hayden
           On Organizing

    Steve McNichols
           A Moment of Silence

    Gregory Orr
           The Demonstration
           Solitary Confinement

    Bernice Johnson Reagon
           Ella's Song

    Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
           fannie lou...the woman who

    Jane Stembridge
           Mrs. Hamer

    Molly Lynn Watt
          Dr. King Looked Out
          Civil Rights Update
          Ballad of Jimmie Lee Jackson

    Bob Zellner
           To Vincent and Rosemarie Harding

About the Movement

The Forerunners

    Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
           Saturday's Child

    Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
           We Wear the Mask

    Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
           Children's Rhymes
           Cross
           Comes the Colored Hour
           Dreams
           I, Too, Sing America
           Let America Be America Again
           What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

    James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
           Fifty Years, 1863-1913
           Lift Every Voice and Sing

    Claude McKay (1891-1948)
           America
           White Houses
           If We Must Die

    Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
           Ain't I a Woman?

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