Survival: many struggles, many triumphs --
Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou --
Old Black men / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
Midway / Naomi Long Madgett --
Love / John Henrik Clarke --
Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
To the oppressors / Pauli Murray --
The emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle) / Mari E. Evans --
Obstacles / Layding Kaliba --
Still I rise / Maya Angelou --
To James / Franke Horne --
The lesson of the falling lives / Lucille Clifton --
The still voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers --
Speech to the young/Speech to the progress toward / Gwendolyn Brooks --
A note of humility / Arna Bontemps --
Encouragement II / John Henrik Clarke --
Dreams / Langston Hughes --
from "Dark Testament" / Pauli Murray --
A legacy of pride and strength --
Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
My people / Langston Hughes --
Science / Gordon Nelson --
What color is black / Barbara Mahone --
We are / Hardy Crosslin --
What shall I tell my children who are Black / Margaret Burroughs --
From "African Poems" / Haki Madhubuti --
The nature of this flower is to bloom / Alice Walker.
Bringing about changes: a call for revolution --
Blk/rhetoric / Sonia Sanchez --
Will the real Black people please stand / Desirée Barnwell --
Blessed are those who struggle / Suliaman El Hadi --
Revolutionary poets / Jean Parrish --
The revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron --
A soliloquy to the Black women of America / Charlotte Brown --
I know a lady / Joyce Carol Thomas --
A protest poem for Rosa Parks / Abiodun Oyewole --
If we forget / Ja Jahannes --
The funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. / Nikki Giovanni --
For Malcom, U.S.A. / James Emanuel --
Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni --
Because / Nikki Giovanni --
Being Black in my neighborhood / Ja Jahannes --
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
Sense of heritage / Ntozake Shange --
Variety in Black / Denise Brooks --
One time Henry dreamed the number / Doc Long --
Our promise / Phyllis Bynum.
