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Poetry

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  From the Freedom Movement
  About the Freedom Movement
  The Forerunners

From the Freedom Movement

Chude Pam Allen

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

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

Bruce Hartford
Mississippi Voter Rally
Grenada March #107

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
      The Children
      Automation
      The Flute

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

June Brindel
The Road From Selma

June Jordan
Jim Crow: The Sequel

Naomi Long Madgett
Alabama Centennial
Midway

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?