Anne Moody reflects on the murders of her town, "At least when other animals (hogs, cows, etc.) were killed by man, they were used as food. ... "I stood there reaching up and snatching out those boiling hot guts with my bare hands as fast as I could My face, arms, and clothes were splattered with blood and chicken shit (Moody 145). These conditions show that the blacks were being taken advantage of both physically and mentally: "The faster the chickens moved, the sicker I got We all ran out suffocating as though we were running from death"(Moody 145). ... Not only were jobs for blacks diff...

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• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as the adored author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture; poems that display Hughes affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, cl...

• Word Count: 1313
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School