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© 1994, 2002 by Howard Zinn
Foreword © 2018 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The lines from “Incident” are reprinted from Color, by Countee Cullen, copyright © 1925 by Harper & Brothers, renewed 1953 by Ida M. Cullen, by permission of GRM Associates, Inc., agents for the Estate of Ida M. Cullen; the lines from “i sing of Olaf glad and big” and “my father moved through dooms of love” are reprinted from Complete Poems: 1904–1962, by E.E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation, copyright © 1931, 1940, 1959, 1968, 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust; the lines from “Once” in Once, copyright © 1968 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace and Company.

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Composition by Wilsted & Taylor

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ISBN 978-0-8070-4384-4 (pbk) | ISBN 978-0-8070-4502-2 (ebook)