What is The Last Poets?
{{nosources|date=September 2015}} '''The Last Poets''' is the name for several groups of poets and musicians who came out of the late 1960s African-American [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights movement]]'s [[Black nationalism|black nationalist]] movement. The name is taken from a poem by the [[South Africa]]n revolutionary poet [[Keorapetse Kgositsile]]. The Original Last Poets were formed on May 19, 1968 at Marcus Garvey Park in [[East Harlem]]. Their first album ''The Last Poets'' was released in 1970. {{DEFAULTSORT:Last Poets, The}} [[Category:1968 establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:20th-century American musicians]]