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I Want the Wide American Earth

"I Want the Wide American Earth" by Carlos Bulosan. "Before the brave, before the proud builders and workers, I say I want the wide American earth, Its beautiful rivers and long valleys and fertile plains, Its numberless hamlets and expanding towns and towering cities, Its limitless frontiers, its probing intelligence, For all the free. Free men everywhere in my land— This wide American earth—do not wander homeless, And are not alone; friendship is our bread, love our air; And we call each other comrade, each growing with the other, Each a neighbor to the other, boundless in freedom."

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Carlos Bulosan’s signed poem, “I Want the Wide American Earth,” as part of a fundraiser for Local 37 officers’ legal defense fund, who were facing deportation.

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Bulosan, Carlos

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I Want the Wide American Earth

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ca. 1950

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Creator

Bulosan, Carlos

Date

ca. 1950

Module

Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4

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Text

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Poem

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Bulosan, Carlos; Poem

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Courtesy of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

Creator

Bulosan, Carlos

Date

ca. 1950

Module

Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4

Type

Text

Format

Poem

File Format

jpg

Subject

Bulosan, Carlos; Poem

Credit Line

Courtesy of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

Licensor

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

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