Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Dream Variations	Langston Hughes	1994
For My People	Margaret Walker	2017
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
This Is Not a Small Voice	Sonia Sanchez	2018
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies	June Jordan	2017
Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	1978
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, II)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, I)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (35)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (25)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (14)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (13)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
From “The Southland’s Charms and Freedom’s Magnitude” (11)	Albery Allson Whitman	1901
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXXVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XXXVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XXXVII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
Past Present & Future	Alero “The Mimz” Ogisi	2024
Abolition of Slavery in District of Columbia	James Madison Bell	1901

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1994