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Poetry

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Please email your Movement-related poems, or suggestions, to webspinner@crmvet.org (see Submissions Policy).

  From the Freedom Movement
  About the Freedom Movement
  The Forerunners

From the Freedom Movement

About the Movement

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?


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