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Desegregation Poems - Poems about Desegregation


June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at App......

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Categories: desegregation, america, anxiety, crush, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Were Spectators
...I Our cry, silenced. We watch the murder of our freedoms Like spectators at a lynching. Our Twenty-first-century forbearance rubbed out, Our twentieth-century sensibilities never happened. High......

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Categories: desegregation, abortion, birth, body, freedom,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Short Walk To Freedom
...A simple walk from home to all white school was needed to break segregation rule fate chose little Bridge to brave that first walk in her school frock freedom won for us all...

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Categories: desegregation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member New School-Contest
...As she was walking to a brand new school, four strange men walked with just her. She didn't know ......

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Categories: desegregation, courage, school,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member I Liked Ike
...Dwight D. Eisenhower, a heroic general in World War Two Elected thirty-fourth President of the USA in 1952 Fondly remembered as an American Golden Age His era had its fair share of turbule......

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Categories: desegregation, courage, freedom, hero, military,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Word Up
...Word Up! This just may be the last poem from the last poet among the poets of last who first spoke the word. In the beginning the Word was is and ever will be the force liberating both y......

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Categories: desegregation, africa, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom's Quest
...Freedom’s Quest They bravely set sail and escaped on the Mayflower. Those first settlers, common people from Europe, Came ashore from the Atlantic with faith and hope. Freedom is what they soug......

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Categories: desegregation, america, christian, discrimination, england,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rosa Parks, a Maverick
...Rosa Louise Parks refused to give up her seat “First Lady of Civil Rights” back in fifty-five civil disobedience ‘fore Martin Luther King’s time courageous Rosa kept her seat and caused......

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Categories: desegregation, black african american, history,
Form: Choka

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