Riot by Gwendolyn Brooks

Following a series of successful mainstream press publications, such as the Harper & Row Mecca (1968), Brooks chose to have Riot published by the Detroit-based Broadside Press. The press had been founded in 1965 by Brooks' dedicatee, Dudley Randall (initially as a bid to protect the copyright on his poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"). Printed in November, 1969 with a cover design by Cledie Taylor.