<b>Soul hands clap in the 60s: history and African American poetry</b><br>
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n59p84Abstract
Just as the modern Civil Rights Movement differed from previous ones in style and substance, the poetry of the 1960s, and especially the late 60s, offered a new way of talking, an especially noticeable sea change in mood, that was, I argue, a consequence of two sets of significant events: one, the 1966 "Black power" speech of Stokely Carmichael ( Kwame Toure) in Greenwood, Mississippi, and, in tandem, the deaths of Medgar Evers (1963), Malcolm X (1965), and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968).Downloads
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2010-03-01
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