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I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry /
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| Call Number |
j811.08 |
| Publisher |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, |
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Subject
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Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- African American authors -- Collections.
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Juvenile literature.
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| Title Statement |
I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry / [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. |
| Description |
128 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Contents |
Bars fight / Lucy Terry -- Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley -- On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton -- Yes! strike again that sounding string / James M. Whitfield -- Bury me in a free land / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Song of the smoke / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Black finger / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Your world / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Interracial / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Children of the sun / Fenton Johnson -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- The white house / Claude McKay -- Beehive / Jean Toomer -- Heritage / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- Cross -- / Langston Hughes -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- Saturday's child / Countee Cullen -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Sorrow home / Margaret Walker -- Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Malcolm X / Gwendolyn Brooks -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Rites of passage / Audre Lorde -- In the year / Amiri Baraka -- Funeral |
| Summary |
A collection of poems by African-American writers. |
| Contributors |
Clinton, Catherine, 1952- |
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Alcorn, Stephen |
| ISBN |
0395895995 : |
| LCCN |
97046137 /AC |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
43316 |
