Jim Crow: The Sequel (June Jordan Poems)
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
We would render fitting tribute,We would add to thy great fame,We would crown thee with due honorAnd immortalize thy name.Till ...
GOD save the Rights of Man!Give us a heart to scanBlessings so dear:Let them be spread aroundWherever man is found,And ...
(Dedicated to Cincinnati Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and sung to the air, "America")Dear Lord we come to Thee,In ...
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
Deep in the bosom of a wood,Out of the road, a Temple stood:Ancient, and much the worse for wear,It call'd ...
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
O pertest, most self-satisfied Of aught that breathes or moves, ...
I am the Song of Rebellion.Murmuring in breasts of Grecian galley slaves,Sobbing in parched throats of pyramid hewers and builders,Rankling ...
Deah Ladies, - Let me wawn you, theah are feahful taimes to come,And a mos" ter-ific strugge is at hand; ...
A barefooted child on the crossing,Sweeping the mud away,A lady in silks and diamonds,Proud of the vain display;A beggar blind ...
'An equal Opportunity for all'!All right: but the advantage will be smallUnless, as well, the citizen can findEquality of Character ...
DUSK-HAIRED and gold-robed o'er the golden wineShe stoops, wherein, distilled of death and shame,Sink the black drops; while, lit with ...
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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