This poem captures the depth of the African American experience ... Inspiration and Themes: “I, Too” was written during the ...
Their mother was a gifted speaker and the author of the first poem known to be written by an African American woman. Cesar and Festus went to Massachusetts to enlist in the Continental army.
Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is best known as a poet, author, essayist and editor. He has written 11 ...