"Had she been worth the blood?" : the lynching of Emmett Till, 1955
"Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts and stones" : The Little Rock Crisis, 1957-1958
"The FBI knows who lynched you" : the abduction and murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959
"Fearless before the waiting throng": the life and death of Medgar Evers
"Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone" : the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, September 15, 1963
"What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy" : The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963
"Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove" : the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964
"We are not beasts and do not / Intend to be beaten" : riots, rebellions, and uprisings
"Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, February 21, 1965
"In the panic of hooves, bull whips and gas" : Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965
"Set afire by the cry of "BLACK POWER" : birth and legacy of the Black Panther Party, 1966-
"America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968
"A gun / Struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968.
