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Making a Way Gallery
Exhibition
Making a Way Out of No Way
Published by
Broadside Press, founded 1965
Edited by
Randall, Dudley, American, 1914 - 2000
Written by
Giovanni, Nikki, American, 1943 - 2024
Hughes, Langston, American, 1902 - 1967
Toomer, Jean, American, 1894 - 1967
Sanchez, Sonia, American, born 1934
Margaret Danner, American, 1915 - 1984
Cullen, Countee, American, 1903 - 1946
Brooks, Gwendolyn, American, 1917 - 2000
Bontemps, Arnaud Wendell, American, 1902 - 1973
Hayden, Robert, American, 1913 - 1980
Knight, Etheridge, American, 1931 - 1991
Madhubuti, Haki R., American, born 1942
McKay, Claude, Jamaican American, 1889 - 1948
Randall, Dudley, American, 1914 - 2000
Alhamisi, Ahmed Akinwole
Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus, American, 1898 - 1966
Emanuel, James Andrew, American, 1921 - 2013
Baraka, Amiri, American, 1934 - 2014
Major, Clarence, American, born 1936
Allen, Samuel, American, 1917 - 2015
Dooley, Ebon, American, 1942 - 2006
Durem, Ramón, American, 1915 - 1963
Long, Doughtry, American
Spriggs, Edward S., American, born 1943
Long Madgett, Naomi, American, born 1923
Walker, Margaret, American, 1915 - 1998
Date
1969
Medium
ink on paper with metal
Dimensions
H x W x D (Closed): 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.5 cm)
H x W x D (Open): 8 1/2 × 10 15/16 × 3/16 in. (21.6 × 27.8 × 0.5 cm)
Description
A paperback collection, or anthology, of poems titled "Black Poetry" edited/compiled by Dudley Randall. The front cover is black with white type that reads [BLACK POETRY / EDITED BY DUDLEY RANDALL / Black poems are beautiful • delicate and lovely / AHMED ALHAMISI SAMUEL ALLEN / A Poem Looking For A Reader • Brother Malcolm / ARNA BONTEMPS GWENDOLYN BROOKS / An everlasting song, a singing tree • soul sounds / COUNTEE CULLEN MARGARET DANNER / One Time Henry Dreamed The Number • Award / EBON RAY DUREM JAMES A. EMANUEL / like the first time u knowingly kissed a girl / NIKKI GIOVANNI ROBERT HAYDEN / Malcom X • Runagate • As You Leave Me / LEROI JONES ETHERIDGE KNIGHT DON LEE / I'll walk the tightrope that's been stretched for me / DOUGHTRY LONG CLAUDE McKAY / Booker T. & W.E.B. • Hard Rock Returns to Prison / CLARENCE MAJOR DUDLEY RANDALL / After our fierce loving • Black love is Black wealth / SONIA SANCHEZ MELVIN B. TOLSON / Georgia Dusk • The Profile On The Pillow / JEAN TOOMER MARGARET WALKER / Poems that wrestle cops into alleys • Life is fine / NAOMI MADGETT EDWARD S. SPRIGGS / LANGSTON HUGHES / BROADSIDE PRESS NINETY-FIVE CENTS], all centered. Forty-eight (48) interior pages total, all white with black type. The reverse has same style (black with white text) with two paragraphs about why the anthology was recommended by the University of Michigan students, lists some of the poets whose works are included, and explains the biographical notes, and a paragraph under that about Dudley Randall. At the bottom of the back cover, reads [BLACK POETRY / A Supplement to Anthologies which Exclude Black Poets / Broadside Press, 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit, Mich. 48238].
Place printed
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Books and Published Materials
Movement
BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
Type
paperbacks
Topic
Black power
Black Press
Literature
Poetry
Resistance
U.S. History, 1961-1969
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2015.114
Restrictions & Rights
© Broadside Press
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
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