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MALCOLM by LUCILLE CLIFTON

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First Line: NOBODY MENTIONED WAR
Last Line: AND FROM THEIR HOLES BLACK EAGLES FLEW %SCREAMING THROUGH THE STREETS
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; MALCOLM X (MALCOLM LITTLE) (1925-1965);

Poem Sources:

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.
  GATES, HENRY LOUIS, JR. & MCKAY, NELLIE Y. (EDS.)
  (1997)
 
GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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