Civil Rights Movement Poems

All the schools were segregated

And all the blacks were devastated.

Then it was made legal

To have schools “separate but equal”.

The schools were still not the same

But the government wouldn’t be the blame.

“We tried” they say.

Though the government did not address black dismay.

With Brown versus Board of Education, 

Schools were desegregated across the nation.

Racism was still a huge problem

But the African-Americans enjoyed their new freedom.

Rosa Parks sat on a bus.

“How,” she thought, “are they better than us?”

A man with skin that looked like snow

Told her to move, to which she said, “No.”

The cops were called and but still she fought.

She continued to think back to her previous thought.

“They’re not better than me because they have lighter skin”

This thought lead a revolution to begin.

White kids everywhere,
Not many colored for that part of school this year,
No colored kids over in this part of school there,
Why aren't the colored kids here?

Here we go, and here we run,
For our freedom and rights, this must be done.
The spark of determination will grow,
In which it never will cease to glow.
One child here, and one child there,
Stepping beyond boundaries, oh, they dare.
Our words loud, and our wills strong,
We will not give up all the while long.

Why can't we leave well enough alone?
We destroy so many lands, and why destroy our own?
Our growth, our flash of growing green,
We just keep sacrificing it to the machine.
The fields, the flowers and the land,
If it were still growing, wouldn't that be grand?
See, the way it is, we can  keep,
Just don't let our Mother Earth turn into a rubbish heap.