These are two poems that made me think about slavery the civil rights movement racial inequality in America and especially RESISTANCE. They are actually from a book of poems that my mom checked out from the Marlborough Library the book is called… “The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis”. The poems were selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy and I thought that they really related to what we are talking about in English.
Locked arm in arm they cross the way. The color boy and the white,The golden splendor of the day,The sable experience of night.
From lowered blinds the dark folk look. And here the bring together folk talk,Indignant that these two should act In unison to go.
Oblivious to be and word They go and see no wonderThat lightning brilliant as a sword Should blaze the path of thunder.
Where is the Jim Crowe sectionOn the merry-go-round,Mister cause I be to go?Down South where I come fromWhite and coloredCan’t sit side by side. Down south on the trainThere’s a Jim Crowe car. On the bus we’re put in the back—But there ain’t no backTo a merry-go-round!Where’s the horseFor a kid that’s black?
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