VF: AFRO-AMERICAN
STUDIES

# POEMS

of the

NEGRO REVOLT

Memorable poems by contemporary Negro poets
on the Negro's struggle for dignity and freedom.

She clawed in bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.

"O, here's a shoe, but where's the foot?
And, baby, where are you?"

BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM

BROADSIDE SERIES

Single poems attractively printed for framing
or for your scrapbook.

1. BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by Dudley Randall .35
   On the bombing of a Church in Birmingham.

2. DRESSED ALL IN PINK, by Dudley Randall 1.00
   The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

3. GABRIEL, by Robert E. Hayden .50
   Gabriel Prosser, leader of a slave revolt.

4. BALLAD OF FREEDOM, by Margaret Walker .50
   A roll-call of freedom fighters.

5. THE SEA TURTLE AND THE SHARK, by M. B. Tolson .50
   Grim symbolism of the quest for freedom.

6. WE REAL COOL, by Gwendolyn Brooks .50
   Casualties of the American Way of Life.

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