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First Line: Odd little, thin little brown little girl
Last Line: Ever wear pretty dresses, have a wave and a curl?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Photography & Photographers


ANGEL FOR DONNA, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sat there at the end of the room
Last Line: And make them happy, too.'
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ANGEL FOR MY FRIEND, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want my friend to have an angel
Last Line: Well, I want my friend to have an angel %just like him
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ANGEL IN THE TREE HOUSE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't stay back there hiding
Last Line: When the world is new
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ANGEL OF KNOWLEDGE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She knows almost all there is to know
Last Line: But even she must wait %for answers
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ANGELS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are older than %the oldest star
Last Line: Our love shines %ever bright
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ANGELS (REPRISE), by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am older than %the oldest star
Last Line: My love glows forever %bright
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


ASPHALT, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At st. Stans, back in seventh grade
Last Line: Center of the earth
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Children; Race Awareness; Youth


BENEDICTION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go forth, my son
Last Line: Thy star-ways must be won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


BIG SISTER, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister is such an angel
Last Line: But she's an angel, too
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


BIG SISTER AND BIG BROTHER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ziza plays her guitar
Last Line: His running shoes
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


BLACKSTONE RANGERS: 2. THE LEADERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jeff. Gene. Geronimo. And bop
Last Line: Construct, strangely, a monstrous pearl or grace
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


CHILDHOOD, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a child I knew red miners
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mines & Miners; Southern States; South (u.s.)


CHILDHOOD, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a child I knew red miners
Last Line: Where sentiment and hatred still held sway %and only bitter land was washed away
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mines And Miners; Southern States


CHILDREN COMING HOME, SELS., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Alphabet Verse; Ancestors And Ancestry


CHILLEN GET SHOES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush little lily
Last Line: You'll be like moll, too, %bye and bye
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


COME HOME FROM THE MOVIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Show our fathers how to walk like men, %they already know how to dance
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


COUNTERS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My uncle fred has a slash
Last Line: It made him
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


COUNTRY GIRL, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had this cousin that was a black
Last Line: Could be mad as hell with the world
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


CRAZY, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'd have to be
Last Line: Crazy
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me and kesha cousins used to dance to hip-hop music
Last Line: More than once heaven was closed to her
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


DANIEL IN SNOW, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow world had called him
Last Line: And listened to the magical call %of snow
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


DEATH CHEST, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last year, in the last field out of shorter
Last Line: I always lock the bathroom doors in hotels though
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


DELROY AND FRIEND, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We laugh strongest because we laugh
Last Line: And winner ate dug-up dirt
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DELROY THE DANCER-EXPLORER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dance myself all clear
Last Line: A dancer-boy explorer
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DELROY THE SKATEBOARD ROLLER, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sittn down is all immobility
Last Line: To roll with, calm calm, without end
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DOESN'T A DIFFERENCE MAKE FRIENDS TALK?, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad watches a ball game
Last Line: But isn't she messy?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


DREENA'S NOTEBOOK THAT MAKES PEOPLE LAUGH, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My drawings come bright
Last Line: He'd been really nasty to me
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


FLOWERS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My stepfather brought me flowers today
Last Line: Becaurse I had just sung my first solo
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


FOR BABIES, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I visit babies %after the sun
Last Line: Is going to be %all right
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


FOR MICHAEL ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY, by PATRICIA PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A distant time past
Last Line: Men - beautiful and black
Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Birthdays


GETTIN' OLD, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day I figured I'd get old
Last Line: T. Fanny said, 'see?'
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


GHOST HOUSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already tearing down some of the old houses
Last Line: No more shorter
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


GRANDMAMA, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmama says there's no place like shorter
Last Line: She just looks at the old packard and remembers
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


GRANDSON IS A HOTICEBERG, by MARGARET DANNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A grandson is %not %the wing-sprouting cherub
Last Line: Mother, %dynamite
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


GRATITUDE DOWN SOUTH, by EDWINA WOOD WHITESIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'se des a little cullud boy
Last Line: "let yo' co'science be yo' guide."
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Southern States; South (u.s.)


GUARDIANSHIP, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That dusky child upon your knee
Last Line: That wields the locks of destiny!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


HIDING PLACE, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday found the old shack by line creek
Last Line: To face the reality of shorter
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


HORSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. John jacobs used to sit me on the old carousel
Last Line: And I wondered if he'd ever fly again
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


I BRING LAUGHTER, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I made you laugh, %isn't this fun?
Last Line: I tickled my angel self, too
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


INTO THE LIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a picture of
Last Line: The light
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


ISN'T MY NAME MAGICAL?, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody can see my name on me
Last Line: Isn't your name and my name magic?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


KAMALI'S ANGEL, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw an angel %in a bubble I blew
Last Line: I would be sad %forever
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


LAST QUATRAIN OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the murder, %after the burial
Last Line: Chaos in windy grays %through a red prairie
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Lynching; Till, Emmett (1941-1955)


LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school
Last Line: As the queen upon her throne.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America


LESSON, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was 1963 or 4, summer
Last Line: With him, I kept thinking, fixed against noise %from the dark
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Fathers


LIFE OF LINCOLN WEST, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ugliest little boy
Last Line: It comforted him
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


LITTLE BLACK GIRLS, THE ORIGINAL EVE (SPREADIN' MORE BEAUTIF, by KAREN WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A %bodacious %black %bad
Last Line: One of the true joys of motherhood
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


LITTLE BROWN BABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes
Last Line: Little brown baby wif spa'klin eyes!
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Babies; Negroes; American Blacks; Infants


LITTLE SAM, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, de cabin's empty
Last Line: Will take dis po' ole nigger home, to be wid little sam.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Slavery; Serfs


LITTLE SON, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The very acme of my woe
Last Line: In turmoil and delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mothers


LIZA MAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown face full of smiles
Last Line: Liza may.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mothers


LOOKS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood on the curve in the road by my grandmama's
Last Line: If nothing else of this town %existed
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


LUCY AND HER GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucy is the ocean
Last Line: Lucy / was going
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls


LUCY AND HER GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucy is the ocean
Last Line: Lucy %was going
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls


MAKE/N MY MUSIC, by ANGELA JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My colored childhood was mostly music
Last Line: I found billie %holiday - an learned %how %to cry
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians


MISS ANNIE MORGAN, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I waved to miss annie morgan this morning
Last Line: That's why I waved at miss annie
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


MISS BLUES'ES CHILD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the blues would let me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Negroes; American Blacks


MISS BLUES'ES CHILD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the blues would let me
Last Line: In my heart I'm crying, %I'm just miss blues'es child!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children


MISS PEARL, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She told immigrant stories
Last Line: Up in shorter
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


MY ANGEL, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one can hurt me %an angel comes to guard
Last Line: Snatches me away %from all danger
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


MY BOY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear you singing happily
Last Line: Before it melts in tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


MY BOYS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My boys beauty is
Last Line: Questioning over and over - %what is the meaning of this?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Boys


MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: DAD, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daddy drives a train
Last Line: Sometimes, he plays our piano
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: MOM, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mommy wears flat earrings
Last Line: Then mommy marks essay after essay
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


NEGRO MOTHER TO HER CHILD, by VICTOR JEREMY JEROME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quit yo' wailin' honey bo'
Last Line: Brek dat prison down
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


NEW HOUSE, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two years before we moved to ohio
Last Line: And not going back to grandmama's house
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


NIKKI-ROSA, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you're black
Last Line: All the while I was quite happy
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Variant Title(s): Nikki-roasa
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Women


NINETIES, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had to leave the south
Last Line: But would never live in %mine
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


OMI ROSE, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her face was such a warm doll
Last Line: Our baby - omi!
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


ON THE STEPS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had never seen a crack pipe till
Last Line: All couldn't do any better
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


OTHER SIDE, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to stand on top of the shed in the back of my
Last Line: Where I stood for a long time
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


OUR CAT, by JAMES BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She touches with her paw
Last Line: Fantastic family friend - firefur!
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life


PARK WORKER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The harbor is as a baby's blue eye
Last Line: And moves down the incline toward the water
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Child Labor; Girls


PARTY, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carla jackson threw me a party before I went north
Last Line: I could never really come back
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


PIANO LESSONS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's hard growing up in a family that
Last Line: Then dragged me forever away from culture in shorter
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


POEM, by HELENE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown boy / slim, dark, big-eyed
Last Line: You are.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks


POLITICS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mama's best friend in high school
Last Line: Shorter being unforgiving of that kind of thing
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


PULLIN' SHORTER DOWN, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Got the letter yesterday
Last Line: And now they're pullin' it all down
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


RED DIRT, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Got me some red alabama dirt I keep
Last Line: Red, red dirt of alabama
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


SARAH'S PROMISE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who understands better than I
Last Line: Spare me my one good boy.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Faith; Sons; Belief; Creed


SHALL I SAY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I say, 'my son, you're branded in this country's pageantry
Last Line: With a faith that shall not falter, in your heart and on your tongue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


SHORTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Got to shorter and saw it all
Last Line: You can't
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


SIRENS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red lights in the cold night
Last Line: Never be warm again
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


SMOKING WITH T. FANNY, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: T. Fanny moved in next door to us when I was eight
Last Line: Cigarettes on her birthday every year
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


SOFT, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mama holds me
Last Line: Precious baby, %precious one.'
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


SONG FOR TWO, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two hearts are singing a love song
Last Line: I love you. My father. My son.'
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


SOON, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon one evening or soon one morn
Last Line: A wonderful angel like me
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


STONED, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rancid reasoning of a thousand
Last Line: Exploding in his head
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THE BLACKSTONE RANGERS: 2. THE LEADERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jeff. Gene. Geronimo. And bop
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THE LAST QUATRAIN OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the murder, / after the burial
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Lynching; Till, Emmett (1941-1955)


THE LIFE OF LINCOLN WEST, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ugliest little boy
Last Line: It comforted him
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother bore me in the southern wild
Last Line: And be like him, and he will then love me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Bible; Brotherhood; Freedom; Mothers; Mythology; Racism; Liberty; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE MARTYR OF ALABAMA, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He lifted up his pleading eyes
Last Line: In whirlwinds of god's wrath.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Murder; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE PLANTATION CHILD'S LULLABY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wintah time hit comin'
Last Line: Ef de win' do blow?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman's sho' a cur'ous critter, an' dey ain't no doubtin' dat
Last Line: T will be lizy up a-tu'nin' of de chillun in de bed.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THEME FOR ENGLISH B, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The instructor said / go home and write
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools; Negroes; American Blacks; Students


THEME FOR ENGLISH B, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The instructor said %go home and write
Last Line: Although you're older and white %and somewhat more free %this is my page for english b
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools


THERE IS A GIRL INSIDE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the woods will be wild %with the damn wonder of it
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Girls; Innocence


THIS MORNING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Survive %survive
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


THOSE BOYS THAT RAN TOGETHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We have some fine black boys %don't it make you want to cry?
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


TO A BROWN BOY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love you for the puzzled way you smile
Last Line: A bridge whose span includes eternity
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


TO A LITTLE COLORED BOY, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, pure and sportive little child
Last Line: In me you have a friend.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Racial Equality


UTOPIA, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God grant you wider vision, clearer skies, my son
Last Line: Unto a waiting sunset!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


VOTING, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In conversation my grandmama calls them good-looking boys
Last Line: In dresses
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WALTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me and walter used to go skinny-dipping
Last Line: In line creek
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WAR, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day after school I used to run into town to listen
Last Line: Office up in birmingham
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WAR II, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daddy had vietnam dreams
Last Line: To shorter
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WASH-A-TERIA, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Used to go to the wash-a-teria off the atlanta highway
Last Line: Alabama afternoon
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WE ARE RISING, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the sayings of our race
Last Line: Tell to the world we're rising!
Subject(s): African Americans - Children


WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We
Last Line: Die soon.
Variant Title(s): We Real Cool
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America


WHERE YOU BEEN, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmama says
Last Line: The red, red dirt of alabama
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama


WITNESS, by ELOISE GREENFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hands can help, I see
Last Line: Wiped away by the clasp %of helping hands
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Angels


WORKING THE ROOTS, by ANGELA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Secretly, it was said, my great-great-grandmama, who looked
Last Line: Cause no family or neighbors had the nerve to touch 'em
Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama