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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLEDAD POEMS: ELEGY FOR GEORGE JACKSON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP
First Line: They say you died in a patch of sunlight
Last Line: You enter the hour of myth
Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Crime And Criminals; Ku Klux Klan; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Police; Racism
First Line: They say you died in a patch of sunlight
Last Line: You enter the hour of myth
Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Crime And Criminals; Ku Klux Klan; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Police; Racism
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