| Description |
xvi, 358 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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, September 15, 1963 -- "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy" : The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 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 -- "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, February 21, 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, 1966- -- "America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968 -- "A gun / Struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968. |
| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Poetry.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar.
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| ISBN |
9780822350927 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822350920 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822351030 paperback alkaline paper |
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082235103X paperback alkaline paper |
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