We troubled the waters poems

Poetry and paintings in tribute to the many individuals who acted with courage for justice and change during the civil rights movement.

Main Author:	Shange, Ntozake.
Other Authors:	Brown, Rod, 1961- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Amistad/Collins, c2009.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	African Americans > Juvenile poetry. Racism > Juvenile poetry. Race discrimination > Juvenile poetry. African Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile poetry.

Summary:	Poetry and paintings in tribute to the many individuals who acted with courage for justice and change during the civil rights movement.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 x 29 cm.
ISBN:	9780061337352 (trade bdg.) 9780061337376 (lib. bdg.) 0061337358 (trade bdg.) 0061337374 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1970 and a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. She adopted her African name while in graduate school. She wrote 15 plays, 19 collections of poetry, six novels, five children's books, and three essay collections. Her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, opened on Broadway in 1976 and received an Obie Award. She also received an Obie in 1981 for her adaptation of Bertold Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her trilogy, Three Pieces, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry in 1981. She died on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography)