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//Citation: http://www.d.umn.edu/~mull0323/CivilRightsWebquest.htm// [|What does it mean to be Black in America?] media type="youtube" key="fUVtFTp5Y8I" height="349" width="425" //**I, Too, Sing America**// //**By,**// //**Langston Hughes**//
 * Race in America**  //"How does it feel to be a problem? they say."// (//The Souls of Black Folk// W.E.B. Du Bois 7)

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then.

Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed--

I, too, am America. (//The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader// Langston Hughes 257-258) [|Sam Cooke "A Change is Gonna Come"] media type="youtube" key="SQU4torUz-Q" height="349" width="425" **//Incident//** **//By,//** **//Countee Cullen//** Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee; I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

I saw the whole of Balimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. (//The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader// Countee Cullen 243) //Citation: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=11598// // (Chain Gang, ca. 1939 William H. Johnson) // "For the African-American community, that path [to a more perfect union] means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life.... In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowleding that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds..." (//Barack Obama's Speech on Race// Barack Obama 6) Mariel's Wall on Change Mariel's Wall on the American Other Mariel's Wall on Dreaming Mariel's Reflections Back to Home