The African American man, dressed shabbily, walked on the stone path he knew so well. He passed the familiar brick houses, with small dark red pieces missing from almost every brick. This was the place of New York no one wanted to see, especially the residents. This was the ghetto where Langston Hughes lived in the 1900s.
The poem Merry-Go-Round is about a black child who wants to go on a merry-go-round. The child is most likely in the North, where slavery and discrimination was not as common as in the South. The child is so used to the discrimination suffered by those in the Southern United States that he asked where should he go in order to be separated from the white children on the merry-go-round. The child mentions, “Down South where I
The poem Merry-Go-Round is about a black child who wants to go on a merry-go-round. The child is most likely in the North, where slavery and discrimination was not as common as in the South. The child is so used to the discrimination suffered by those in the Southern United States that he asked where should he go in order to be separated from the white children on the merry-go-round. The child mentions, “Down South where I