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A POEM FOR MYSELF by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT

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First Line: I WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI
Last Line: Or dead in the Mississippi mud
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS;
Full Poem Text Available at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Etheridge_Knight/JYt8AQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=knight+%22I+was+born+in+mississippi%22&pg=PT48&printsec=frontcover


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