Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Seeley, Virginia

Description

1. vii, 120 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

1. African Americans > Poetry
2. American poetry > 20th century
3. American poetry > African American authors
4. American poetry > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Poetry.
2. Novels.
3. Fiction.

Contents

1. Survival: many struggles, many triumphs -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Old Black men / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Midway / Naomi Long Madgett -- Love / John Henrik Clarke -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Wise 1 / Amiri Baraka -- To the oppressors / Pauli Murray -- The emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle) / Mari E. Evans -- Obstacles / Layding Kaliba -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- To James / Franke Horne -- Expressions of hope -- The lesson of the falling lives / Lucille Clifton -- The still voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Speech to the young/Speech to the progress toward / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A note of humility / Arna Bontemps -- Encouragement II / John Henrik Clarke -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- from "Dark Testament" / Pauli Murray -- A legacy of pride and strength -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- My people / Langston Hughes -- Science / Gordon Nelson -- What color is black / Barbara Mahone -- We are / Hardy Crosslin -- What shall I tell my children who are Black / Margaret Burroughs -- From "African Poems" / Haki Madhubuti -- Women / Alice Walker -- The nature of this flower is to bloom / Alice Walker.
2. Bringing about changes: a call for revolution -- SOS / Amiri Baraka -- Blk/rhetoric / Sonia Sanchez -- Will the real Black people please stand / Desirée Barnwell -- Blessed are those who struggle / Suliaman El Hadi -- Revolutionary poets / Jean Parrish -- Nation / Charlie Cobb -- The revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- Portraits of heroes -- A soliloquy to the Black women of America / Charlotte Brown -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- I know a lady / Joyce Carol Thomas -- A protest poem for Rosa Parks / Abiodun Oyewole -- If we forget / Ja Jahannes -- The funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. / Nikki Giovanni -- For Malcom, U.S.A. / James Emanuel -- Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni -- The fullness of life -- Because / Nikki Giovanni -- Being Black in my neighborhood / Ja Jahannes -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Sense of heritage / Ntozake Shange -- Variety in Black / Denise Brooks -- One time Henry dreamed the number / Doc Long -- Our promise / Phyllis Bynum.

Call number

1. Sc D 96-394

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes index.

Title

1. African American poetry.

Publisher

1. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Globe Book Co., ©1993.

Copyright date

1. ©1993

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1999

Added author

1. Seeley, Virginia, editor.

LCCN

1. 93215608

ISBN

1. 0835905330 (pbk.)
2. 9780835905336 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc D 96-394