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Prophets for a new day / by Margaret Walker.
LIBRA PS3545.A517 P7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--Poetry.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States--Poetry.
- Civil rights demonstrations.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Broadside Press, 1970.
- Contents:
- Street demonstration
- Girl held without bail
- Now
- Sit-ins
- The ballad of the free
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Oxford is a legend
- Birmingham
- How many silent centuries sleep in my sultry veins
- At the Lincoln Monument in Washington, August 28, 1963
- For Malcolm X
- For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney
- Prophets for a new age
- Jeremiah
- Isaiah
- Amos, 1963
- Amos (postscript, 1968)
- Joel
- Hosea
- Micah
- Ballad of the hoppy-toad
- Elegy.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- "Copyright ©1970 by Margaret Walker Alexander"--verso of title page.
- "First printing, July 1970"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0910296219
- OCLC:
- 123753
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