Cite Your (Sample) Sources

Music

100

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"Be my woman, girl, and I'll be your man"

song "Hey Mama" by David Guetta (2014)

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"Rosie"

field recording of work song sung by men imprisoned at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman (1947)

200

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

album by Lauryn Hill (1998)

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The Miseducation of the Negro

book by Dr. Carter G. Woodson

300

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"To be young, gifted, and black"

song by Nina Simone (Summer 1969)

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To be Young, Gifted, and Black: a portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in her own words

posthumous autobiographical compilation adapted by Robert Nemiroff (January 1969)

400

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"Lemonade"

video by Beyoncé (2016)

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Daughters of the Dust

film by Julie Dash (1991)

Literature

100

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"A raisin in the sun"

play by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)

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"Harlem (2)"

poem by Langston Hughes (1951)

200

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"I know why the caged bird sings"

autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou (1969)

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"Sympathy"

poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899)

300

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"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."

Address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)

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"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York."

The Tragedy of Richard III play by William Shakespeare (c. 1592-1594)