Ballad of Birmingham (Sources)

Sources

Barksdale, Richard, and Kenneth Kinnamon, eds., Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology, New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Breman, Paul, “Poetry into the Sixties,” in The Black American Writer, Vol. II, edited by C. W. E. Bigsby, Deland, FL: Everett/Edwards, 1969, pp. 99-109.

Cobbs, Elizabeth H., and Petric J. Smith, Long Time Coming: An Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing that Rocked the World, Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill, 1994.

Garrow, David J., ed., Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights, Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1989.

Melhem, D. H., “Dudley Randall: A Humanist View,” in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 1983, pp. 157-67.

Miller, R. Baxter, “‘Endowing the World and Time’: The Life and Work of Dudley Randall,” in Black American Poetsbetween Worlds, 1940-1960, edited by R. Baxter Miller, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1986, pp. 77-92.

Moore, Lenard D., “For Dudley Randall,” in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 1987, p. 242.

Mootry, Maria K., “‘Chocolate Mabbie’ and ‘Pearl May Lee’: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ballad Tradition,” in CLA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, March 1987, pp. 278-93.

The New York Times, September 16, 1963; September 17, 1963.

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Riley, C., ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. I, Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1973, p. 283.

Williams, Juan, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, New York: Penguin, 1987.