American History by Michael S. Harper – Poems | Academy of American Poets
American History
Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn’t find them.
Can’t find what you can’t see
can you?
From Images of Kin by Michael S. Harper, published by University of Illinois Press. © 1970 by Michael S. Harper. Used with the permission of the University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved.
Poet Michael S. Harper
Source: American History by Michael S. Harper – Poems | Academy of American Poets
There is a song from Joan Baez, entitled “Birmingham Sunday” about the four girls murdered that day when the church was bombed during services. – word pond
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