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Broadside No. 54

1971

Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Four poems published by Broadside Press as Broadside No. 54, printed in black ink on a single sheet of yellow paper folded in half to form four pages. On the cover is the poem "Ebony Woman" written by Lawrence C. Riley. The interior left page contains the poem titled "Growing Pains" written by Thomas Washington Jr. The interior right page contains two poems. At top, "Convict Warrior No. 122088" written by a poet identified as "Robert L." Beginning at the center of this page and continuing onto the back page is "Sisters Love to Rap" by Mabarut Khalil Malik. At bottom center of the back page is the copyright, broadside number, and publisher information. There are no inscriptions.

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Catalog reference: 2013.154.21

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