African american poems

Additional Text: "Ballad of Birmingham" was used to incorporate poetry into the text set. This is a very power poem written from the perspective of a young African American girl who wanted to go to the Freedom March.

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𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 :)

African American II. [Nayyirah Waheed]

from Poetry Jump Up: A Collection of Black Poetry (Puffin Books, 1990) compiled by Grace Nichols. Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee on February 23, 1942, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States) is an African-American author, educator, and poet, as well as a publisher and operator of black-themed bookstore.

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