We Walk the Way of the New World (1970 Broadside Press edition) (Q1613)
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Published in 1970 by Broadside Press, Detroit
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| English | We Walk the Way of the New World (1970 Broadside Press edition) |
Published in 1970 by Broadside Press, Detroit |
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WE WALK THE WAY | OF THE NEW WORLD | Don L. Lee | [publisher's device] | BROADSIDE PRESS | 12651 Old Mill Place Detroit, Michigan 48238
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Copyright © 1970 by Don L. Lee | All rights reserved
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No part of this book can be copied, reproduced, or used | in any way without written permission from Broadside Press, | 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit, Michigan 48238.
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Some of these poems have appeared previously in Negro Digest, | Journal of Black Poetry, Black News, Broadside Series, | and The Chicago Daily Defender. | The Beautiful cover is the creation of brother Omar Lama—if it | ain't togatha I don't know what is; we'd like to thank him again.
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[1] DEDICATION | or to those | who helped create a New Consciousness | William E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, | J. A. Rogers, Lerone Bennett: | to them history is not a weak re-writing of pro-black-| ness, but a complete re-interpretation with the proper | perspective. their vision put them among the history- | poets of the New World. | Wallace Thurman, | Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson:
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[2] | Harlem & blackness to them was more than white | boys dropping money to print bad books. they left us | something meaningful to grow on. | Richard Wright, | Paul Robeson, E. Franklin Frazier: | the dynamiters. makers of new words/ideas that did | more than just walk the page, they jumped at us with | unrelenting force that wdn't wait. | Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba,
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[3] | Sekou Touré, Julius K. Nyerere: | makers of the New World, Africa. made us realize that | we're an African people. . . . . . . | Frantz Fanon: | taught us a new psychology, we're still learning. | Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone: | two internationally known blackwomen entertainers | that are constantly black & relevant, can u name me | two brothers/blackmen that are as . . . .
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[4] | Lew Alcindor: | tomorrow's athlete. a blackman first & a ball player | second. rite-on Lew, righteously. | Waring Cuney, Aimé Césaire: | poets who knew, and said it. | Katherine Dunham: | a lady who danced & danced & danced. | and | to all movement women: | soft. indestructible. warm. sure. true. as they watched | their men marry the women who were not there. | they sacrificed much.
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