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‘I Am… Somebody!’
Another classic: Rev. Jesse Jackson leads a group of children in reciting “I Am… Somebody!” on Sesame Street in 1972:
This clip is so deeply embedded in my subconscious that I only hear the poem with Rev. Jackson’s and the kids' call-and-response cadence.
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