American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1623 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dudley Randall and Broadside Press
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The idea
Randall, called the father of the Black poetry movement of the nineteen sixties, founded Broadside Press, which published Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde and Etheridge Knight. The anchor calls it one of the most important literary forums of the Black Arts Movement. His poem "The Melting Pot" treats immigrant identity.
In practice
A press that was also a movement.
Where people slip
He became Detroit's first poet laureate.
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