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Subject: SELMA, ALABAMA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ON A HIGHWAY EAST OF SELMA, ALABAMA; JULY 1965, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sheriff remarked: I had no business being there. He was
Last Line: And still he refuses to swallow.
Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Prisons & Prisoners; Racism; Selma, Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SELMA, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sanitary woolworth's luncheonette
Last Line: I bask in it. The bloodbath, a steamy pot above the meal
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Selma, Alabama


THE ROAD TO SELMA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her birthplace, she's a tourist in the shrine to martyrs
Last Line: Prisoners of starvation, their hungry mouths chew the bloody word, / arise
Subject(s): Selma, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement