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Subject: WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. (1856-1915)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALABAMA EARTH (AT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE), by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in alabama earth
Last Line: Love -- and chains are broken
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Alabama; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are
Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions


BOOKER T. AND W.E.B., by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems to me,' said booker t
Last Line: I don't agree,' %said w.E.B.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Writing And Writers


BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The word is writ that he who runs may read
Last Line: Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage


BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S METAPHOR ABOUT SPRING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house will clear out and the sun will flood over
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Spring; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead
Last Line: When money clinks its story.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen


MONUMENTS FOR A FRIENDLY GIRL AT A TENTH GRADE PARTY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only relics left are those long
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside our way the streams are dried
Last Line: And lead us to the promised land!
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage