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IMAGES FROM THE
JIM CROW SOUTH
With text and haikus by Richard Wright
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“I was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to stifle. I was feeling the very thing that the state of Mississippi had spent millions of dollars to make sure that I would never feel; I was becoming more aware of the thing that the Jim Crow laws had been drafted and passed to keep out of my consciousness; I was acting on impulses that southern senators in the nation’s capital had striven to keep out of Negro life; I was beginning to dream the dreams that the state had said were wrong, that the schools had said were taboo.”
- Richard Wright in Black Boy, Chapter 7
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1.
I am nobody:A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.
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I give permissionFor this slow spring rain to soak
The violet beds.
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With a twitching noseA dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
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Burning autumn leaves,I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.
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A sleepless spring night:Yearning for what I never had
And for what never was.
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