SOURCE: "Margaret Walker: Folk Orature and Historical Prophecy," in Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960, edited by R. Baxter Miller, University of Tennessee Press, 1986, pp. 104-16.
In the following excerpt, Barksdale examines Walker's use of folklore in the ballads of For My People and the civil rights poems of Prophets for a New Day.
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