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Maya Angelou
Phillis Wheatley
Changed the world
Poetically
But do you know
The others listed
Who saw oppression
And bravely resisted
Harriet Tubman
Cassius Clay
Or Muhammed Ali
As he’s known today
Nat Turner
John Brown
Would shed your blood
For keeping them down
Rosa Parks
Dr Martin Luther King
Non-violently
Let freedom ring
Amanda Gorman
Langston Hughes
Which of these Poets
Would you choose
Crispus Attucks
Ralph Bunche
Do you know what they did
Do you have a hunch
George Washington Carver
Charles Drew
How did their accomplishments
Affect me and you
Kamala Harris
Barack Obama
The presidential impact
Of a single mama
Jack Johnson
Mary McLeod Bethune
Do you know the significance
Of the 19th of June
So many heroes
Too many to name
Many are unknown
To our shame
More than a month
Is truly required
To ensure their legacies
Are never expired
- By Richard Gary
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