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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Matches Found: 44 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1960, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Stokely said the war was declared by lbj sending tanks into Last Line: Until his people were free. This is war but somebody forgot to tell %the people Subject(s): Carmichael, Stokely; Civil Rights Movement AJAX' CONCLUSION, by FRANK BARBOUR COFFIN Poem Text First Line: My friends, our race is ostracised Last Line: The future's on our shoulders staid. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand together, like moses standing with aaron Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Last Line: But baby, where are you? Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism BIRMINGHAM, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the last whippoorwill call of evening Last Line: Carved out of rock with shooting stars to fire %the forge of bitter hate Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHICAGO DEFENDER SENDS A MAN TO LITTLE ROCK, FALL, 1957, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In little rock the people bear %babes, and comb and part their hair Last Line: The loveliest lynchee was our lord Variant Title(s): The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Roc Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement CRAB-BOIL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I remember the sky Last Line: We're kicked out now. I'm ready (emphasis mine) Subject(s): Racism; Civil Rights Movement DANCING TO ELLINGTON, by JAN SELVING Poem Source First Line: I found him downstairs Last Line: To the place I could watch %my father dance Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Dancing And Dancers; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians ELDRIDGE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody mentioned war Last Line: Break, or / be broken Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; African Americans; Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-1998) FOR ANDY GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, AND JAMES CHANEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three faces Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Murder FOR MEDGAR EVERS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're afraid of me Last Line: And above them a tree shall grow / for shade Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) FOR MEDGAR EVERS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're afraid of me Last Line: And above them a tree will grow %for shade Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if, after high street Last Line: Or a mosque adrift on a milk-fed pond Subject(s): Buses; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement GHOST WALK, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors who never Last Line: And a last glass of wine Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Rosa Parkes (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement GIRL HELD WITHOUT BAIL, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like it here just fine Last Line: I like it fine in jail %and I don't want no bail Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement JACKSON STATE, MAY 15, 1970, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my black-eyed-susan school Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Jackson State University JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of tense and stricken faces Last Line: The graves of the dead, %and the birthing stools of grannies long since fled Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Jackson, Mississippi LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All, all the stretch of these great green states - %and make america again! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Freedom MEDGAR EVERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose height his fear improved he Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) MEDGAR EVERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose height his fear improved he Last Line: He was holding clean globes in his hands Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) MEDGAR EVERS, 1925-1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So they laid him down in a beautiful place Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) MONTGOMERY, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: White woman have you heard %she is too tired to sit in the back Last Line: Seats will ride through twon %I walk for my children %my feet two hundred years old Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Poetry And Poets NAACP, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see by the papers Last Line: To break old jim crow's course Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement NAACP URGING REVIEW BY CIVILIANS OF POLICS ACTS, by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: The basketball game is over Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement POEM TO THRILL THE NAACP OR A BLACK FAMILY MOVES ..., by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: He was black, yes Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's Last Line: Picketing woolworth's. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism RACE RELATIONS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sang in the sun Last Line: Of the breakers of stone Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism RIOT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John cabot, out of wilma, once a wycliffe Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Negroes; American Blacks SELMA, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sanitary woolworth's luncheonette Last Line: I bask in it. The bloodbath, a steamy pot above the meal Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Selma, Alabama SIT-INS, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were our first brave ones to defy their dissonance of hate Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; STREET DEMONSTRATION, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're hopping to be arrested Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement THE CHICAGO DEFENDER SENDS A MAN TO LITTLE ROCK, FALL, 1957, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In little rock the people bear / babes, and comb and part their hair Variant Title(s): The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Negroes; American Blacks THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bob above us all afternoon Last Line: Their spells had summoned up. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE MEETING AFTER THE SAVIOR GONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we decided is Last Line: Where you headed Subject(s): Survival; Civil Rights Movement THE MYSTIC RIVER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I cross Last Line: Bit of secret, lighted flesh, open up the earth? Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Southern States; Racism; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE ROAD TO SELMA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her birthplace, she's a tourist in the shrine to martyrs Last Line: Prisoners of starvation, their hungry mouths chew the bloody word, / arise Subject(s): Selma, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement WE SHALL OVERCOME': A SMILE FOR THE 1960'S, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To us, it was a lovely song Last Line: Like the uncut pages of a book of dreams - %the best of the century - %pushed aside Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO AMERICA, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: What ever happened to %those crazy white Last Line: They had lots of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Social Protest WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971) WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971) |
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