AND WE MARCHED

we took the children / women /
teenagers & elders / hand in hand & we marched / from the blessed steps
of the churches to the doors of city hall we marched we marched through water hoses past snarlin dogs / under nightsticks and just out the sights of rifles but we marched we marched cause freedom buses burned we marched cause cars disappeared we marched cause this is our land too was time somebody knew

Here are stirring poems and paintings of everyday and extraordinary people who acted for justice during the civil rights movement that changed our nation.