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On the Bus with Rosa Parks 1999

By Rita Dove

  • Poetry, African American women civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, African Americans

A new collection by a much celebrated poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," which probes the private griefs and dreams of a working-class family, to the emblematic grace of a living legend like Rosa Parks, who acquiesced to public life in order to "serve the public good," these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history.

PoetryAfrican American women civil rights workersCivil rights movementsAfrican AmericansAfrican American womenCivil rightsPoetry (poetic works by one author)New York Times reviewed

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