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Poems | Rita Dove and Camille T. Dungy | 78 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Poem | Joshua Bennett | 79 The Black Panther Party

Short Dramatic Work | Lynn Nottage | 84 The birth of hip-hop

Short Fiction | Kiese Laymon | 84 Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “rainbow coalition”
speech

Poem | Clint Smith | 85 Superdome after Hurricane Katrina

These materials were created to support ​The 1619 Project​, published in ​The New York Times Magazine​ August
2019. You can find this and more educational resources at ​www.pulitzercenter.org/1619