| Description |
xvi, 358 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"An anthology." |
| Summary |
This work is an anthology of poems from the civil rights era, from 1955 until 1975. The poems featured are grouped chronologically around major events of the time, including the Emmett Till lynching, the integration of Little Rock High School, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, and the rise of the Black Panthers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Journey toward freedom -- 1. "Had she been worth the blood?" : the lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 -- Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher -- The better sort of people / John Beecher -- A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks -- On the state of the union / Aimé Césaire -- Temperate belt : reflections on the mother of Emmett Till / Durward Collins Jr. -- Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel -- Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén -- Mississippi 1955 (to the memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes -- Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam -- Salute / Oliver Pitcher -- 2. "Godfearing citizens/with Bibles, taunts and stones" : the Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958 -- The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén -- School integration riot / Robert Hayden -- My blackness is the beauty of this land / Lance Jeffers -- 3. "The FBI knows who lynched you" : the murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 -- Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird -- Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce -- For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray -- Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray -- 4. "Fearless before the waiting throng" the life and death of Medgar Evers -- Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- American (in memory of Medgar Evers) / R.D. Coleman -- For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow -- Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer -- Micah (in memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker -- 5. "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone" : the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, 15 September 1963 -- Escort for a president / John Beecher -- American history / Michael S. Harper -- Here where Coltrane is / Michael S. Harper -- Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes -- Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde -- Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Ballad for four children and a president / Edith Segal -- September 1963 / Jean Valentine. |
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6. "What we have seen/Has become history, tragedy" : the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 -- Belief / A.R. Ammons -- Elegy for JFK / W.H. Auden -- Formal elegy / John Berryman -- The assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks -- On not writing an elegy / Richard Frost -- At the Brooklyn docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert -- Verba in memoriam / Barbara Guest -- Until death do us part / Anselm Hollo -- A night picture of Pownal / Barbara Howes -- Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow -- Jacqueline / Will Inman -- Down in Dallas / X.J. Kennedy -- In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler -- Four days in November / Marjorie Mir -- Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Soloman -- Not that hurried grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas -- November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco -- The gulf / Derek Walcott -- 7. "Deep in the Mississippi thicket/I hear the mourning dove" : the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 -- A commemorative ode / John Beecher -- Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir -- The book of Job and a draft of a poem to praise the paths of the living / George Oppen -- The demonstration / Gregory Orr -- Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson -- Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner -- When Black people are / A.B. Spellman -- For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker -- 8. "We are not beasts and do not/Intend to be beaten" : riots, rebellions, and uprisings, 1964-1971 -- Riot : 60's / Maya Angelou -- Attica, U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird -- Finish / Charles Bukowski -- Heroes / Karl Carter -- Revolutionary letter #3 / Diane di Prima -- A mother speaks : the Algiers Motel incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper -- Keep on pushing / David Henderson -- Poem against the state (of things) : 1975 / June Jordan -- On the birth of my son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester -- The gulf / Denise Levertov -- Coming home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine -- If we cannot live as people / Charles Lynch -- Kuntu / Larry Neal -- Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) -- In Orangeburg my brothers did / A.B. Spellman -- 9. "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 -- A poem for Black hearts / Amiri Baraka -- For Malcolm : after Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax -- Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Judas / Karl Carter -- Malcolm / Lucille Clifton -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden -- Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter) / Etheridge Knight -- Malcolm X, an autobiography / Larry Neal -- At that moment / Raymond Patterson -- If blood is black then spirit neglects my unborn son / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Malcolm / Sonia Sanchez -- For Malcolm who walks in the eyes of our children / Quincy Troupe -- For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker -- That old time religion / Marvin X -- 10. "In the panic of hooves, bull whips and gas" : Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, 1965 -- Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston -- The road to Selma / June Brindel -- Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky -- The sun of the future / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Race relations / Carolyn Kizer -- Alabama centennial / Naomi Long Madgett -- On a highway east of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr -- Crumpled notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela. |
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11. "Set afire by the cry of / Black Power" : the birth and legacy of the Black Panther Party -- The Black mass needs but one crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver -- Apology (to the Panthers) / Lucille Clifton -- Revolutionary letter #20 / Diane di Prima -- For Angela / Zack Gilbert -- May King's prophecy / Allen Ginsberg -- Black power (for all the beautiful Black Panthers east) / Nikki Giovanni -- Newsletter from my mother : 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper -- [Let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins -- The day the audience walked out on me, and why / Denise Levertov -- One sided shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Revolutionary suicide / Huey P. Newton -- We called him the General / Melvin Newton -- The Panther, after Rilke / Craig Randolph Pyes -- From "Ghazals : homage to Ghalib" / Adrienne Rich -- 12. "America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 4 April 1968 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The meeting after the savior gone, 4/4/68 / Lucille Clifton -- A poem to my brothers killed in combat or something about a conversation with my father after Rev. King was killed / Ebon Dooley -- How to change the U.S.A. / Harry Edwards -- Reflections on April 4, 1968 / Nikki Giovanni -- April 5th / Donald L. Graham -- What color? / Nicolás Guillén -- Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden -- Rites of passage (to M.L.K., Jr.) / Audre Lorde -- Two walls / Robert Lowell -- Assassination / Haki Madhubuti -- April fourth / Robert Mezey -- Martin Luther King, Malcolm X / Muriel Rukeyser -- Elegy for Martin Luther King / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Black Thursday / Victor Manuel Rivera Toledo -- White weekend (April 5-8, 1968) / Quincy Troupe -- Amos, 1963 / Margaret Walker -- Amos (postscript, 1968) / Margaret Walker -- 13. "A gun/struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 5 June 1968 -- Assassination raga / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The assassination / Donald Justice -- Season of lovers and assassins / Carolyn Kizer -- For Robert Kennedy / Robert Lowell -- For Robert Kennedy / Al Purdy -- A flower from Robert Kennedy's grave / Edward Sanders -- Elegy / Derek Walcott -- Freedom to kill / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- 14. "Mighty mountains loom before me and I won't stop now" : struggle, survival, and subversion during the civil rights era -- Black art / Amiri Baraka -- Poem for half white college students / Amiri Baraka -- Free world notes / John Beecher -- Georgia scene : 1964 / John Beecher -- War and silence / Robert Bly -- Passive resistance / Margaret Danner -- Revolutionary letter #8 / Diane di Prima -- Revolutionary letter #9 / Diane di Prima -- Freedom rider : washout / James A. Emanuel -- Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni -- Mississippi voter rally / Bruce Hartford -- Grenada march #107 / Bruce Hartford -- The last river / Galway Kinnell -- Poem, small and delible / Carolyn Kizer -- Revolutionary mandate 1 / Julius Lester -- A note to Olga (1966) / Denise Levertow -- For the Union dead / Robert Lowell -- Midway / Naomi Long Madgett -- Be nobody's darling / Alice Walker. |
| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Poetry.
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Civil rights movements -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822350927 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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0822350920 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780822351030 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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082235103X (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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