Poets like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay created poems that spoke of racial discrimination of black people which put a new perspective on racism to the general population. ... Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lea...

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• Grade Level: High School