In the mid 1900s and during the Civil Rights Movement the oppressed, dejected, hopeless African Americans finally decided to protest against the unfair treatment from the white men. Langston Hughes dives deep into the heads of many African Americans and in his poetry he depicts their thoughts and feelings about America, and what America, the supposed ‘land of the free,’ really means to them. To the wronged African Americans, the great country of America does not mean freedom, she does not represent happiness, she does not inspire hope in their eyes. No, America to them means the place where their fathers and grandfathers toiled under the harsh sun, where their families were ripped apart, and where their ancestors were sold into slavery. To
