<I>Black Poetry: a Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1969
name: label: Published by
content: Broadside Press, founded 1965
label: Edited by
content: Dudley Randall, American, 1914 - 2000
label: Written by
content: Nikki Giovanni, American, 1943 - 2024
label: Written by
content: Langston Hughes, American, 1902 - 1967
label: Written by
content: Jean Toomer, American, 1894 - 1967
label: Written by
content: Sonia Sanchez, American, born 1934
label: Written by
content: Margaret Danner, American, 1915 - 1984
label: Written by
content: Countee Cullen, American, 1903 - 1946
label: Written by
content: Gwendolyn Brooks, American, 1917 - 2000
label: Written by
content: Arnaud Wendell Bontemps, American, 1902 - 1973
label: Written by
content: Robert Hayden, American, 1913 - 1980
label: Written by
content: Etheridge Knight, American, 1931 - 1991
label: Written by
content: Haki R. Madhubuti, American, born 1942
label: Written by
content: Claude McKay, Jamaican American, 1889 - 1948
label: Written by
content: Dudley Randall, American, 1914 - 2000
label: Written by
content: Ahmed Akinwole Alhamisi
label: Written by
content: Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, American, 1898 - 1966
label: Written by
content: James Andrew Emanuel, American, 1921 - 2013
label: Written by
content: Amiri Baraka, American, 1934 - 2014
label: Written by
content: Clarence Major, American, born 1936
label: Written by
content: Samuel Allen, American, 1917 - 2015
label: Written by
content: Ebon Dooley, American, 1942 - 2006
label: Written by
content: Ramón Durem, American, 1915 - 1963
label: Written by
content: Doughtry Long, American
label: Written by
content: Edward S. Spriggs, American, born 1943
label: Written by
content: Naomi Long Madgett, American, born 1923
label: Written by
content: Margaret Walker, American, 1915 - 1998
notes: label: Description
content: A paperback collection, or anthology, of poems titled "Black Poetry" edited/compiled by Dudley Randall. The front cover is black with white type that reads [BLACK POETRY / EDITED BY DUDLEY RANDALL / Black poems are beautiful • delicate and lovely / AHMED ALHAMISI SAMUEL ALLEN / A Poem Looking For A Reader • Brother Malcolm / ARNA BONTEMPS GWENDOLYN BROOKS / An everlasting song, a singing tree • soul sounds / COUNTEE CULLEN MARGARET DANNER / One Time Henry Dreamed The Number • Award / EBON RAY DUREM JAMES A. EMANUEL / like the first time u knowingly kissed a girl / NIKKI GIOVANNI ROBERT HAYDEN / Malcom X • Runagate • As You Leave Me / LEROI JONES ETHERIDGE KNIGHT DON LEE / I'll walk the tightrope that's been stretched for me / DOUGHTRY LONG CLAUDE McKAY / Booker T. & W.E.B. • Hard Rock Returns to Prison / CLARENCE MAJOR DUDLEY RANDALL / After our fierce loving • Black love is Black wealth / SONIA SANCHEZ MELVIN B. TOLSON / Georgia Dusk • The Profile On The Pillow / JEAN TOOMER MARGARET WALKER / Poems that wrestle cops into alleys • Life is fine / NAOMI MADGETT EDWARD S. SPRIGGS / LANGSTON HUGHES / BROADSIDE PRESS NINETY-FIVE CENTS], all centered. Forty-eight (48) interior pages total, all white with black type. The reverse has same style (black with white text) with two paragraphs about why the anthology was recommended by the University of Michigan students, lists some of the poets whose works are included, and explains the biographical notes, and a paragraph under that about Dudley Randall. At the bottom of the back cover, reads [BLACK POETRY / A Supplement to Anthologies which Exclude Black Poets / Broadside Press, 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit, Mich. 48238].
place: label: Place printed
content: Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Black Press
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.114
objectType: label: Type
content: paperbacks
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Broadside Press
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Closed): 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Open): 8 1/2 × 10 15/16 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 27.8 × 0.5 cm)