Student Readings
Poetry:
“Ballad of Birmingham,” Dudley Randall (1963)
“Cross,” Langston Hughes (1926)
“Dream Deferred – Harlem,” Langston Hughes (1951)
“Incident,” Countee Cullen (c. 1925)
“Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward,” Gwendolyn Brooks (N.D.)
“We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks (1960)
“Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou (1978)