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A people's history of Chicago / Kevin Coval ; foreword by Chance the Rapper.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.O88825 P46 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coval, Kevin, author.
- Series:
- BreakBeat poets series
- Breakbeat poets series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago (Ill.)--Poetry.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.
- Contents:
- Shikaakwa 1
- Iasalle Wrote It Down Wrong 2
- The Father Is a Black Man 4
- The Treaty of Chicago 6
- Hog Butcher for the World 7
- Albert Parsons Can Hang 9
- How to Be Down 10
- The L Gets Open 11
- The white City 12
- Eugene Debs Reads Marx in Prison 13
- Reversing the Flow of the Chicago River 14
- The Great Migration 15
- The Eastland Disaster 16
- The Murder of Eugene Williams 18
- Society for Human Rights (America's First Gay Rights Organization) 19
- Thomas Dorsey, Gospel's Daddy 21
- Gwendolyn Brooks Stands in the Mecca 23
- Hansberry vs. Lee 26
- Muddy Waters Goes Electric 28
- Nelson Algren Meets Simone de Beauvoir at the Palmer House 29
- Pickle with a Peppermint Stick 31
- Sun Ra Becomes a Synthesizer 33
- Hugh hefner, a Play Boy 34
- Mamie Till Bears the Movement 35
- King daley Unfurls His burnham Plan 36
- The Division Street Riots 37
- Martin Luther King Prays in Marquette Park 38
- Studs Terkel Drops a Mixtape 40
- Carl Sandburg Village (Where My Parents Met) 41
- Wall of Respect 43
- AfriCOBRA 44
- The Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton 46
- Don L. Lee Becomes Haki Madhubuti 48
- The Chicago 21 Plan 49
- Leaving Aldine 50
- Ode to Steppin 51
- Disco Demolition 52
- Mayor byrne Moves Into & Out of Cabrini Green 54
- Ron Hardy Plays the Record Backwards 56
- The Assassination of Rudy Lozano 58
- Marc Smith Invents the Poetry Slam 59
- Collateral Damage 61
- The Day Harold Died 63
- Patronage 64
- Fresh to Death 66
- Molemen Beat Tapes 67
- Graffiti Blasters: An Erasure (A Buff) 69
- The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act 70
- The Etymology of Chicago Joe 71
- Common's Resurrection 73
- The Supreme Court Makes Color Illegal 74
- Erasing the Green 75
- Ida B. Wells Testifies in the Ghost Town 77
- How to Teach Poetry in Chicago Public Schools 79
- Lenard Clark Pedals for Air 81
- Baby Come On: An Ode to Footwork 83
- A Moratorium on the Death Penalty 85
- Praise the House Party 87
- Día de las Madres 89
- Kanye Says What's on Everybody's Mind 91
- I Wasn't in Grant Park when Obama Was Elected 93
- Republic Windows Workers Sit In 94
- The Night the Modern Wing Was Bombed 95
- When King Louie First Heard the Word Chiraq 97
- An Elegy for Dr. Margaret Burroughs 100
- A Dedication to the Inaugural Poet 103
- Memoir of the Red X 105
- Chief Keef's Epiphany at Lollapalooza 107
- Teachers' Strike in the Chicago Tradition 108
- During Ramadan the Gates of Heaven Are Open 110
- Ms. Devine Explains the Meaning of Modern Art: A Found Poem 112
- Two Cities Celebrate Independence Day 113
- We Charge Genocide 115
- Atoning for the Neo-liberal in All or rahm emanuel as the Chicken on Kapparot 116
- 400 Days 119
- The Night the Cubs Win the World Series 122
- Chicago Has My Heart 124.
- ISBN:
- 160846671X
- 9781608466719
- OCLC:
- 959034944
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