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 Among the distinguished group of writers that Christian met was

Arna Bontemps, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, and Margaret Walker.

 

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 Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif, Editors   I Am New Orleans and Other Poems by Marcus B. Christian

New Orleans: Xavier University Press, 1999, 112p

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Blacks, Unions, & Organizing in the South, 1956-1996

A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

Compiled by Rudolph Lewis

 

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Labor’s Deeds Ignored in Schools

Chicago Union Teacher

(April 1956)

 

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The lowest grade of professional politician we encounter in the South . . .

trades on ignorance.  He is . . . owned by the local utility, or mill owner

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I said, “Look around. Nemacolin’s a dying town. There’re no jobs here. Kids are moving away

because there’s no future here. And here’s a man, Barack Obama, who’s going to fight for people

like us and you won’t vote for him because of the color of his skin.”

 

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Then frightened black mothers were brought down to the jailhouse to whip their children

in front of the policemen to teach them not to fight white children. The alternative

was the reformatory, though not a single white child was rounded up.

 

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Books by John Oliver Killens

 

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Indiana University is a public university with a clear mission to serve constituencies in the state,

especially under-served constituencies like adult working people. Increasingly

 public universities are functioning like private ones

 

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IU Labor Studies Under Attack

 

May 21, 2005

Dear Union Sisters & Brothers, Colleagues & Friends,

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Imagine a nation, days of absence from our animal selves, and the donning of our divinity, wherein

we hate each other no more, never again, the jealousy, the Willie Lynch syndrome,

Yacoub’s children playing with steel, some genetic defect in our divine nature.  

 

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