Burn Baby Burn (poem)

"Burn Baby Burn" is a poem by American poet Marvin X,[1] X wrote the poem shortly after the Watts Rebellion in 1965[2][3] to convey the oppression he believed black people faced in white America.[4][5]

References
  1. Negro Youth Culture and Identity: The Case of Hunters Point. University of California. 1967.
  2. John F. Szwed (25 July 2012). Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 566–. ISBN 978-0-307-82244-4.
  3. Margaret Ann Reid (2001). Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties. Peter Lang, New York. ISBN 978-0-8204-2482-8.
  4. Waldo E. Martin (30 June 2009). No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America. Harvard University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-674-04068-7.
  5. Bobby Seale (1991). Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. Black Classic Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-0-933121-30-0.
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