| Bibliography |
| Jordan, June. Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems. Thunder's Mouth Press,1989. |
| Levy, Peter B. The Civil Rights Movement. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1992. Pinkney, Alphonso. Black Americans, fourth ed. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993. Sell, Mike "The Black Arts Movement: Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the 'White Thing'." African American Performance and Theatre History: A Critical Reader, eds. Harry Elam, Jr., and David Krassner. Oxford University Press Watts Daniel H. "Cong. Powell-HARYOU-ACT." Liberator Magazine, no.5, (June 1965), 27. |
| Day, Frances Ann. Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999. Davis, Angela Y. Women, Culture, and Politics. New York, Random House, Inc., 1989. Fuller, Charles H. "Black Writing is Socio-Creative Art." Liberator 7.4 (1967): 8-10. "Black Writing: Release From Object." Liberator 7.9 (1967): 17. Gates, Henry Louis. "Black Creativity: On the Cutting Edge." Time (Oct. 10 1994): 74- 75. Gayle, Addison. The Black Aesthetic. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Publishers, 1971. Giovanni, Nikki. Racism 101. New York, Morrow, 1994, 119. |
| Zelda Beckford AFAM 398.01 April 30, 2002 |
| Brown, Kay. The Emergence of black women artist:1970s, New York. International Review of African American Art.V. 15 No. 1 (1998) 45-52. |
| Encyclop�dia Britannica, "Nikki Giovanni",<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=2511>picture |
 |
| Smith, Dale Edwyna. �The Mother Tongue.� Belles Lettres, V.10; N. 2, (4/30/1995), 68. |