Words with Wings
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setected by Belinda Roehelle
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
AUCTION STREET • Lucille Clifton
Community • Jacob Lawrence
INCIDENT • Countee Cullen
Gemini J-LevT. Mills
JOHN, WHO IS POOR • Gwendolyn Brooks
Marbles • Charles Dawson
YOUR WORLD • Georgia Douglas Johnson
Landscape with Rainbow • Robert Scott Duncanson
WOMEN • Alice Walker
HarrM Tubman • William H. Johnson
THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS • Robert Hayden
Thankful Poor • Henry Ossawa Tanner
LISTEN CHILDREN • Lucille Clifton
Underground Railroad • William H. Johnson
PIPTH GRADE AUTOSIOGRAPHY • Rita DoYe
Reflection• Hughie LeeSmith
LITTLE BROWN BABY • Paul Laurence Diinbar
Family * Romare Bearden