will further the desegregation cause of the Civil Rights Movement. "The Ballad of Birmingham" may help inspire militant action, but it certainly shows the destruction caused by the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the poem, a mother sends her daughter not to the marches but to a church that she believes will be safe. However, the church is bombed (a historical event) and the mother "clawed through bits of glass and brick, / Then lifted out a shoe. / "O, here's the shoe my baby wore, / But, baby, where are you?" (29–32). Published six years after the actual bombing, this poem would remind readers of the pain and death caused by the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement. In popular culture In the third episode ("Kyle") of the NBC television drama This is Us, one of the main characters is renamed "Randall" in explicit tribute to Dudley Randall (who is referred to as the favorite poet of Kyle/Randall's biological father). While the specific tenor of Randall's work is not discussed onscreen, his characteristic themes of black identity are relevant to the character's identity as a black child with white adoptive parents. A copy of Randall's Poem, Counterpoem (actually written together with co-author Margaret Danner) becomes a plot point and is glimpsed in this and other episodes. A line attributed to the collection, but actually from Randall's poem "Splendid Against the Night", is quoted by two characters in the seventh episode ("The Best Washing Machine in the World"). Bibliography Poetry collections Poem Counterpoem, with Margaret Danner (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966). Cities Burning (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968). Love You (London: Paul Breman, 1970). More to Remember: Poems of Four Decades (Chicago: Third World Press, 1971). After the Killing (Chicago: Third World Press, 1973), Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975). A Litany of Friends: New and Selected Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press, 1981). As editor For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and the Death of Malcolm X, with Margaret G. Burroughs (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967). Black Poetry: A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969). Black Poets (New York: Bantam, 1971). Golden Song: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology of the Poetry Society of Michigan, with Louis J. Cantoni (Detroit: Harlo, 1985). Further reading A. X. Nicholas, "A Conversation with Dudley Randall", in Homage to Hoyt Fuller, ed. Dudley Randall, 1984, pp. 266–274. R. Baxter