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Subject: KU KLUX KLAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow blew
Last Line: Yards of blue island
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Culture Conflict; Ku Klux Klan; Racism; U.s. - Race Relations


KLAN MEMBER, by LAURA MICCICHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gas station
Last Line: Wants someone dead
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan


KU KLUX, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have sent him seeds of the melon's core
Last Line: And for a word too much men oft have died.
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan


KU KLUX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kowards who kover their faces
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan


KU KLUX, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They took me out
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Ku Klux Klan; Negroes; American Blacks


KU KLUX, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They took me out
Last Line: Look me in face %and tell me you believe in %the great white race
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Ku Klux Klan


LYNCHING AND BURNING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men lean toward the wood
Last Line: People lived there. Now we live there...
Subject(s): Children; Ku Klux Klan; Lynching; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs


RED STRING, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women


RED STRING, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road
Last Line: Even if blood must sign your name
Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women


SOLEDAD POEMS: ELEGY FOR GEORGE JACKSON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
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