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Civil Rights


(poems go here) Civil Rights What is my civil right? I am black but am I equal to a white? Can I get the right to vote like everyone else? I feel like i'm nothing to you, like dirt under a nail Can I get the same education as everyone I may see on T.V? Or will I have to take two or three buses to a school of my color ? Because if I go to an all whites school, we wouldn't be able to sit next to each other. My civil right is not very civil to my eye in the world that I look at today which is 1955 Will I get brutally beaten,shot, dumped into a river, for whistling to a woman who was white? Or will I have to give up my seat that was rightfully mine because I walked further than any white to even think of walking, and soon later from the bus boycott Martin Luther King instructed hear lots of talking? No, I am not a racist I love everyone the same but during this civil rights movement, blacks and white were treated anyway but the same.
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nichalib
I wrote this poem for the civil rights scholarship.

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