Words of protest, words of freedom : poetry of the American civil rights movement and era : an anthology / edited by Jeffrey Lamar Coleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Poetry.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--Poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 358 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.

Contents:

"Had SHE been worth the blood?" : the lynching of Emmett Till, 1955

"Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts and stones" : the Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958

"The FBI knows who lynched you" : the abduction and murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959

"Fearless before the waiting throng" : the life and death of Medgar Evers

"Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone" : the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, 15 September 1963

"What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy" : the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963

"Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove" : the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964

"We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten" : riots, rebellions, and uprisings, 1964-1971

"Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965

"In the panic of hooves, bull whips and gas" : Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, 1965

"Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER" : birth and legacy of the Black Panther Party

"America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 4 April 1968

"A gun / Struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 5 June 1968

"Mighty mountains loom before me and I won't stop now" : struggle, survival, and subversion during the civil rights era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822350927

0822350920

9780822351030

082235103X

OCLC:

745978659