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1969

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].

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H x W x D (Closed): 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.5 cm)
H x W x D (Open): 8 1/2 × 10 15/16 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 27.8 × 0.5 cm)

Title • Black Poetry: a Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets

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BLACK POETRY: A SUPPLEMENT TO ANTHOLOGIES WHICH EXCLUDE BLACK POETS

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1960s

Cullen, Countee • Hayden, Robert • Long Madgett, Naomi • McKay, Claude • Giovanni, Nikki • Hughes, Langston • Sanchez, Sonia • Brooks, Gwendolyn • Durem, Ramón • Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus • Madhubuti, Haki R. • Alhamisi, Ahmed Akinwole • Baraka, Amiri • Broadside Press • Allen, Samuel • Danner, Margaret Esse • Toomer, Jean • Bontemps, Arnaud Wendell • Knight, Etheridge • Walker, Margaret • Major, Clarence • Randall, Dudley • Long, Doughtry • Emanuel, James Andrew • Spriggs, Edward S. • Dooley, Ebon

Detroit • United States • North and Central America • Wayne County • Michigan

Resistance • Literature • Black Press • U.S. History, 1961-1969 • BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976) • Poetry • Black power

City • Detroit • County • Wayne County • State • Michigan • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America

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