Poetry

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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

Nina Boal
       Meridian Jail

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

Joyce Brown (16)
       The House of Liberty

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

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

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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