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For my people lending their strength to the years, to the ... For my people thronging 47th Street in Chicago and Lenox; ... By Margaret Walker...
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www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/walker/for_my_people.php
www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/walker/for_my_people.php
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Poet, novelist and essayist Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, ... Miss Walker, who was published under her maiden name, was best known for her poem "For My People," published in 1942, and her best-selling novel, Jubilee, based on her family's experiences during slavery and immediately after the Civil War, published in 1966.
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writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html
writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html
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For my people everywhere singing their slave songs; repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an unseen power; ... Next by Margaret Walker...
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oldpoetry.com/opoem/36292-Margaret--Walker-For-My-Peopl...
oldpoetry.com/opoem/36292-Margaret--Walker-For-My-People
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Subject: Margaret Walker; Author(s): Roy L. Hill ... “ . . . rhetorical power of her poem, `For My People' . . . has its roots in the `Preacherman' rhetoric of the Black South.” The poem also shows that “joy and misery are always juxtaposed in Black experience.”...
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Margaret Walker's For My People: A Tribute; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. ... Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of For My People, this book presents the photographs taken by Roland Freeman, his aim being to “capture the spirit of the people about whom Margaret...
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www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/view.php?pid=17580
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Margaret Walker's "for My People": A Tribute (Hardcover) ... by Margaret Walker (Author), Roland L. Freeman (Author) ... Hardcover: 36 pages...
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Margaret Walker Alexander, best known for her neo-slave narrative Jubilee and the poem “For My People,” was born Maragret Abigail Walker on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama. Encouraged by her parents, Reverend Sigismund and Marion Dozier Walker, Margaret read much poetry and philosophy as a young child.
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www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/alexander_margaret_walker/index...
www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/alexander_margaret_walker/index.html
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"For my people everywhere; Singing their slave songs repeatedly; Their dirges and ditties; Their blues and jubilees..."; Margaret Walker; For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature.
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For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and their jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an unseen power;For my people lending their strength to the years, to the gone years and the now years and...
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