Foreword to For My People / Stephen Vincent Benét -- For My People -- Dark Blood -- We Have Been Believers -- Southern Song -- Sorrow Home -- The Spirituals -- Ex-Slave -- Delta -- Lineage -- Since 1619 -- People of Unrest -- Today -- Molly Means -- Bad-Man Stagolee -- Poppa Chicken -- Kissie Lee -- Yalluh Hammuh -- Two-Gun Buster and Trigger Slim -- Teacher -- Gus, the Lineman -- Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie -- Big John Henry -- Childhood -- Whores -- Iowa Farmer -- Memory -- Our Need -- The Struggle Staggers Us -- Street Demonstration -- Girl Held Without Bail -- Now -- Sit-ins -- The Ballad of the Free -- Jackson, Mississippi -- Oxford Is a Legend -- Birmingham -- How Many Silent Centuries Sleep in My Sultry Veins? -- At the Lincoln Monument in Washington, August 28, 1963 -- For Malcolm X -- For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney -- Prophet for a New Day -- Jeremiah -- Isiah -- Amos, 1963 -- Amos (Postscript, 1968) -- Joel -- Hosea -- Micah -- Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad -- Elegy -- October Journey -- Harriet Tubman -- Epitaph for My Father -- Ode on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Sixth President of Jackson State College -- Dear Are the Names that Charmed Me in My Youth -- I Want to Write -- For Gwen, 1969 -- For Paul Laurence Dunbar -- For Mary McLeon Bethune -- Tribute to Robert Hayden -- For Owen Dodson, 1983 -- Ballad for Phyllis Wheatley -- A Litany from the Dark People -- This Is My Century -- Giants of My Century -- Five Black Men ... -- On Death and the Resurrection -- My Mississippi Spring -- Black Paramour -- A Litany of Black History for Black People -- On Youth and Age -- My Truth and My Flame -- Chicago -- 1933 -- Monologue -- On Youth and Age II -- Disillusion for Flower Children of Long Ago -- Old Age -- I Hear a Rumbling -- Dies Irae -- Love Song for Alex, 1979 -- Medgar Evers, 1925-1963 -- Birmingham, 1963 -- Jackson State, May 15, 1970 -- The Telly Boob-Tube on the Idiot Box -- Africa -- Money, Honey, Money -- On Police Brutality -- Power to the People -- They Have Put Us on Hold -- Inflation Blues -- Solace -- Fanfare, Coda, and Finale -- The African Village -- A Patchwork Quilt -- The Crystal Palace -- The House of Prayer -- Small Black World -- Black Magic -- The Labyrinth of Life.
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