Lament for the Dark Peoples
I was a red man one time,
But the white men came. I was a black man, too,
But the white man came. They drove me out of the forest.
They took me away from the jungles. I lost my trees.
I lost my silver moons. Now they've caged me In the circus of civilization.
Now I herd with the many--.
Caged in the circus of civilizationLangston Hughes, 1924
Klan Meeting in Seattle, 1923
KKK in Parade in Bellingham, 1926
KKK Women march in Bellingham parade, 1926
KKK March in Washington DC, 1925
First Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Tennessee…..1916
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