| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 88 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Clara Browns's testimony - Part I -- Mali Evans, 12 / student -- Macon R. Allen, 38 / deacon -- Henry Johnson, 39 / mail carrier -- Willie Arnold, 30 / alto sax player -- Terry Smith, 24 / unemployed -- Clara Brown's testimony - Part II -- Christopher Lomax, 60 / Retired -- Junice Lomax, 23 / unemployed -- Hosea Liburd, 25 / laborer -- William Riley Pitts, 42 / jazz artist -- J. Milton Brooks, 41 / undertaker -- John Reese, 70 / ballplayer, janitor -- Eleanor Hayden, 51 / nanny -- Tom Fisher, 38 / blues singer, livery cabbie -- Dennis Chapman, 40 / laborer -- C. C. Castell, 49 / on disability -- Reuben Mills, 34 / artist -- Jimmy Wall, 14 / boy Evangelist -- John Lee Graham, 49 / street historian -- Willie Schockley, 23 / street vendor, guitar player -- Etta Peabody, 60 / insurance adjuster -- Delia Pierce, 32 / hairdresser -- Clara Brown's testimony - Part III -- Lois Smith, 12 / student -- Jesse Craig, 38 / salesman -- Richmond Leake, 53 / newsstand dealer -- Helen Sweetland, 27 / party girl -- Joshua De Grosse, 19 / student, city college -- Betty Pointing, 64 / clerk -- Jonathan Smalls, 29 / urban planner -- Adam Crooms, 24 / furniture mover -- Clara Brown's testimony - Part IV -- Malcolm Jones, 16 / student -- Gerry Jones, 14 / student -- Mary Ann Robinson, 30 / nurse, Harlem hospital -- Ann Carter, 32 / Benjamin Bailey, 32 / switchboard operator / building maintenance -- Ernest Scott, 26 / poet -- Caroline Fleming, 42 / live-in maid -- Effie Black, 58 / church organist -- Marcia Williams, 17 / high school senior -- Harland Keith, 33 / reporter -- Lawrence Hamm, 19 / student athlete -- Sam DuPree, 28 / hustler -- Clara Brown's testimony - Part V -- Didi Taylor, 14 / student -- Dana Greene, 18 / education major, City college -- Bill Cash, 30 / boxer -- William Dandridge, 67 / mechanic -- Charles Biner, 57 / composer, X-ray technician -- John Brambles, 55 / numbers runner -- Homer Grimes, 83 / blind Veteran -- Frank Griffin, 82 / Veteran -- Lemuel Burr, 81 / Veteran -- Clara Brown's testimony - Part VI -- Lydia Cruz, 15 / student -- Kevin Broderick, 20 / pre-law, City college -- Earl Prentiss, 39 / motorman -- Clara Brown, 87 retired -- Some people, places, and terms ... |
| Summary |
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.9 1.0 83233. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Poetry.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Poetry.
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Young adult poetry, American.
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American poetry.
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| ISBN |
0823418537 hardcover |
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