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Desegregation Poems - Poems about Desegregation

Desegregation Poems - Examples of all types of poems about desegregation to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for desegregation.

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......Read the rest...

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

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...Read the rest...

Categories: desegregation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tetractys

New School-Contest

...As she was walking to a brand new school, four strange men walked with just her. She didn't know ......Read the rest...

Categories: desegregation, courage, school,
Form: Tetractys

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......Read the rest...

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

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......Read the rest...

Categories: desegregation, africa, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

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......Read the rest...

Categories: desegregation, america, christian, discrimination, england,
Form: Narrative

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......Read the rest...

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