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  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
Joan Dresner Bernstein
       The Little Girl From Little Rock
Nina Boal
       Meridian Jail
Julian Bond
       Look At That Girl
       I Too, Hear America Singing
Joyce Brown (16)
       The House of Liberty
Fatima Cortez-Todd
       To Rest Safe and be Fed
Charles Fager
       On Meeting Mrs. Septima Poinsette Clark
Jerry Farber
       The Liberals' Song
Sam Friedman
       Mimeograph
Bruce Hartford
       Mississippi Voter Rally
       Grenada March #107

Casey Hayden
       On Organizing
Abdul Aziz Khaalis (Jan Leighton Triggs)
       Mississippi Street Song in Hinds County
       Parchman Cell
Steve McNichols
       A Moment of Silence
Gregory Orr
       The Demonstration
       Solitary Confinement
Bernice Johnson Reagon
       Ella's Song
Stephen Rose
       The Stones Cried Out
Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
       fannie lou...the woman who
Jane Stembridge
      Mrs. Hamer
      The Children
      Automation
      The Flute
Molly Lynn Watt
      Dr. King Looked Out
      Civil Rights Update
      Ballad of Jimmie Lee Jackson
      Captive
      Race Riff
Rob Wood
       FREDM
Bob Zellner
       To Vincent and Rosemarie Harding

About the Movement

June Brindel
       The Road From Selma

June Jordan
       Jim Crow: The Sequel

Mike Kellin
       Hartman Turnbow
Yusef Komunyakaa
       Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense
Naomi Long Madgett
       Alabama Centennial
       Midway
Richard C. Raymond
       Dixie Definitions
Dudley Randall (1914-2000)
       Ballad of Birmingham
       Booker T. and W.E.B.

The Forerunners

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
       Saturday's Child
       Incident
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
       We Wear the Mask
       The Colored Soldiers
       The Haunted Oak
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
       The Slave Auction
       The Slave Mother
       Bury Me in a Free Land
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
       Children's Rhymes
       Cross
       Comes the Colored Hour
       Dreams
       I, Too, Sing America
       Let America Be America Again
       Merry-Go-Round
       Warning!
       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?