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Transcript: Women of African Descent Speak in `Daughters of Africa'
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- February 27, 1994
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: Black History Month ends tomorrow. Women's History
Month begins Tuesday, so we thought today would be a good day to celebrate
both with the voices of four African-American women. Poets whose
works are featured in Daughters of Africa, an international anthology
of writings by women of African descent. Our first voice belongs
to Rita Dove [sp], the current poet laureate of the United States,
whose collection of poems about her grandparents, Thomas and Beulah
[sp], won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. This poem from that collection
is set one year after the historic civil rights march on Washington.
Beulah, now a widow, attends a Goodyear ...