Words of protest, words of freedom : poetry of the American civil rights movement and era
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Table of Contents:
- "Had she been worth the blood?" : the lynching of Emmett Till, 1955
- "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts and stones" : The Little Rock Crisis, 1957-1958
- "The FBI knows who lynched you" : the abduction and murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959
- "Fearless before the waiting throng": the life and death of Medgar Evers
- "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone" : the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, September 15, 1963
- "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy" : The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963
- "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove" : the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964
- "We are not beasts and do not / Intend to be beaten" : riots, rebellions, and uprisings
- "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, February 21, 1965
- "In the panic of hooves, bull whips and gas" : Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965
- "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER" : birth and legacy of the Black Panther Party, 1966-
- "America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968
- "A gun / Struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968.