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No. 50: Race Riots Were Very Numerous All Over the North

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

You Became a Scientific Profile

A Negroid Type

An Anthropological Debate

& A Photographic Subject

Descending the Throne You Became a Foot Soldier & Cook

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

You Became Uncle Tom, John & Clemens' Jim

Drivers

You Became a Whisper, A Symbol of a Mighty Voyage & by the Sweat of Your Brow You Laboured for Self, Family & Others

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low--Blowing Itself--Ha--Smack into the Middle of Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard it Too and Cried Strange Fruit Tears

Born With a Veil You Became Root Worker, Juju Mama, Voodoo Queen, Hoodoo Doctor

Some Said You Were the Spitting Image of Evil

You Became Playmate to the Patriarch

And Their Daughter

God Bless the Child

Out of Deep Rivers Mixed-Matched Mulattos A Variety of Types Mind You--Ha Sprang Up Everywhere

You Became the Joker's Joke

Your Resistance was Found in the Food You Placed on the Master's Table--Ha

Some Laughed Long & Hard & Loud

Others Said 'Only Thing a Niggah Could Do Was Shine My Shoes'

You Became Boots, Spades & Coons

Restless After the Longest Winter You Marched & Marched & Marched

In Your Sing Song Prayer You Asked Why Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?

And I Cried

Dream and Lie of Franco II

Echo of a Scream

La Familia Presidencial

Treaty

Atomic Bomb Panels (Part Eight): Rescue, left screen

Compatriots on Saipan Island Remain Faithful to the End

Untitled, from the album Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Viet Nam

Agrarian Leader Zapata

Great antifascist collective painting

Charnel house

A rum letter to a rum duke on a rum occasion by a rum fogerum