ABSTRACT
In an analysis of the poetry and music of the “the movement,” Harding (1990) argues that Black poets in the late 1960s were at the forefront of the struggle for democracy throughout the United States:
Poets became community leaders, organizers, publishers, mobilizers, political forces, as well as healers. Almost all became leaders of writing workshops, extending the skills and gifts of their craft to others who were willing to receive, announcing thereby the fundamentally democratic nature of their art.
