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THIS IS NOT ALL-INCLUSIVE, OBVIOUSLY.....and it is within the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA only. A BLACK HISTORYby Tom Jensenpoemsbytom on youtube( 400 years in 44 lines )Black History Month- February -is the shortest monthof the yearhmmm..Around the year 1600 countless black Africanslaves were shipped inFor 200 years they workedthe fields then Eli Whitney created his cotton ginYet over 200 more years would pass before no one noticed the color of their skinSomehow it helped their bruises heal so their songs of freedom they began to singBeaten and whipped they were forced to work sunup to sundown each dayThe fugitive slave law helped to return them whenthey tried to run awayBut finally the congress banned the furtherimportation of African slavesSometime their lives would change at least thats what they hoped and prayedNat Turner, the preacher slave, leads an uprising is caught and hungFrederick Douglass publishes an abolitionist newspaper the movement has begunJohn Brown is killed after raiding Harpers Ferry leaving behind 20 daughters and sonsHarriet Tubmanescapes slavery as theUnderground Railroadhelps many others runThe Missouri Compromise in 1820 banned slaverynorth of MissouriThe Compromise of 1850 stated that the new state of California would be freeAnd that the fate of Utah and New Mexico would be decided by popular sovereigntySince slaves are not citizens Dred Scott is denied,in this case congresscant ban slaveryIn 1861 Civil War begins: the Confederacy forms, our union breaks as the South secedesAbraham Lincolns emancipation proclamation declares that all slavescan finally leaveIn 1865 on April 9th the Civil War ends, five days later Lincoln is killed,as the nation grievesAnd soon the Ku Klux Klan is born and begins sewing its racist and hate-filled seedsIn 1865 the Constitution prohibits slavery with amendment number thirteenIn 1868 U.S. born Dred Scott gains his citizenship through amendment fourteenIn 1870 blacks earn the right to vote in what is known as amendment fifteenYet Black Codes and the later Jim Crow laws make sure these rights arent all they once seemedIn the land of whites when youre black its two steps ahead followed bya giant step backYour civil rights are here and gone when along comes the end of Reconstruction ActWhen in 1896 Plessy versus Ferguson says that segregation is okayjust how do you react?You hum again your song of freedom knowing the foundation of equalityhas crackedSeeking social justice and political equality you quickly join the NAACPAnd in 1920 you join the Harlem Renaissance embracing yourcultural identityYou cheer as Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling knocking down all of GermanyIn 1947 you stand when Jackie Robinson takes the field for its not just baseball historyJackie took a swingeven beforeblack and white soldierscould fight side by sideAnd Jackie stole home before Rosa Parks refused togive up her seat on that famous bus rideJackie got spiked before Brown vs. the Boardof Education erased segregation nationwideAnd Jackie caught the ball before Martin Luther King Jr. had his dreamthat wouldnt dieThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 made it easier for southern blacks to vote in their stateAs a riot in Watts demonstrated that there was still tension, hostilities and prejudiced-filled hateThe Civil Rights Actprohibited discrimination based on religion, colorand race in 1968And the one man who could unite the massesBobby Kennedy was doomed to his brothers fateFast forward another 30-odd years past both O.J. Simpson and Rodney KingListen, can you hear it? As together white, brown, yellow and black voices singThat very same song of freedom that to which those suffering slaves used to clingOn November 4th 2008we can finally say thatyes, indeed equalityis a wonderful thing
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