I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry
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I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry
This edition
"I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry" . Ed. Catherine Clinton. Illus. Stephen Alcorn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 128 pp.
Table of contents
I, too, sing America / Langston Hughes -- Introduction -- Lucy Terry (1730-1821) -- Bars fight -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Liberty and peace -- George Moses Horton (1797-1883) -- On liberty and slavery -- James M. Whitfield (1822-1871) -- Yes! Strike again that sounding string -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- Bury me in a free land -- W.e.b. Du bois (1868-1963) -- Song of the smoke -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- We wear the mask -- Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) -- Black finger -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966) -- Your world -- Interracial -- Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) -- Children of the sun -- Claude McKay (1890-1948) -- If we must die -- White House -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- Behive -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) -- Heritage-- To a dark girl -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Black man talks of reaping -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Harlem -- Negro speaks of rivers -- Merry-go-round -- Cross -- Countee Cullea (1903-1946) -- Tableau -- Saturday's child -- Incident -- Margaret Walker (1915-1996) -- Sorrow home -- Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Malcolm X -- We real cool -- Maya Angelou (b. 1928) -- Still rise -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Rites of passage -- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- In the year -- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) -- Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Alice Walker (b. 1944) -- Women -- Rita dove (b. 1952) -- Primer -- Editor's note -- Illustrator's note.
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A0324