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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Globe Book Co.,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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 Bynu