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| Title: | Sonia Sanchez : "Malcolm" |
| Date: | 1925-1979 |
| Description: | Instructional Web page recommended for grades nine through twelve featuring a video clip and a transcript of an "Eyes on the Prize" interview with African American poet and Black Arts Movement figure, Sonia Sanchez on a poem she wrote about Malcolm X's assassination. The militant ideas of civil rights leader Malcolm X influenced the renowned poet Sonia Sanchez, whose poetry has been described as combative, blunt, passionate, and painfully truthful. In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Sanchez recites a poem she read after Malcolm X's assassination, entitled "Malcolm." Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Grade range: 9-12. A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Teaching guides | Resource units | Moving images | Interviews | Oral histories | Transcripts |
| Subjects: | Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- | X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Assassination | X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Influence | Civil rights--United States | African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York | African American women poets--New York (State)--New York | African Americans--Civil rights | Black Muslims | Black nationalism--United States | Black power--United States | Muslims--United States | African Americans--Religion | United States--Race relations | Nation of Islam (Detroit, Mich.) | Congress of Racial Equality | Black Arts Movement--New York (State) | Elegiac poetry | New York (N.Y.) | New York County (N.Y.) |
| Collection: | Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection |
| Institution: | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| Contributors: | Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- | Eyes on the Prize (PBS) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections | Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| Online Publisher: | [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation | 1934/2008 |
| Original Material: | Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Rights and Usage: | The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. A Quicktime player may be needed to view the streaming video. A PDF viewer may be needed for the transcript. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/iml04/soc/ush/civil/sanchez3/ |
