Myriad
(watching it on TV)
“sorry, kid”
Wilson College to a Black woman wanting to attend and qualified, until the interview
“dream deferred”
going into Woolworth’s
I liked Woolworth’s
singing while being arrested
Rich’s Department Store
“it wasn’t about the food anyhow”
Morris Brown College
“I can be smart, I can have curly hair, I can be whatever I want to be”
student at Spellman
it’s so exciting to hear young Black people, excited
FAMU
#HBCURising
(plot)
I don’t want to do anything to
You know, intrude
But I’m so thrilled
Because I’m a stupid person, I guess
Untrained in the ways of prejudice
If there’s a better choice, it’s so easy to make
It goes something like
Of course, of course, of course
I never learned to hate someone whose
Skin color was not my own
I know my own, it’s dull
I find other skin colors so interesting
It’s marvelous—I can’t do that!
I suppose some will call me traitor
Probably do
I suppose I do not care
Except for sadness that the myriad
Cannot be loved
Have I been passed over so that
A Black woman could be preferred
Probably
Yes
I understand
I mean, I want work, too
And I know I didn’t start it
But really
What does it take for anyone to get a job
It should be the work
But I find too many places with those who
Do not care in the wrong way
(benediction)
Get them up, then
Those who need the rising
Rise over me
That’s all right
Don’t worry, anything I might feel by way of
Patronizing is compensated by the pain
Of loss
But it’s not only my own
It’s yours
And I’m sorry
For a change, let’s all take the chance
To bleed
C L Couch
Tell Them We Are Rising | History & Impact of Historically Black … – PBS
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/tell-them-we-are-rising/ Tell Them We Are Rising explores pivotal role historically black colleges & universities (HBCUs) have played over 150 years in American history and identity.
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and … – IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333094/ A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries-and path of promise toward the American dream-Black colleges and universities have educated the …
A black man goes into the “colored” entrance of the Crescent Movie Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939.
Marion Post Wolcott – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress‘s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.12888.
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