LOCKHART, Theodore

In Search of Roots

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [4],40pp. Very minor toning along jacket extremities, else About Fine.

Poetry collection by African-American native of St. Petersburg, Florida, at the time of publication serving as co-minister at the Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church in Dorcester, Mass. Poems deal primarily in race and ancestry, beginning with the poem "Black Men Remember the Ancestral Night," which begins: "We didn't pick the cotton. / The Niggers did. / We didn't chop those black rich furrows. / The Niggers did, the Niggers did."

Price: $30.00

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