April Is National Poetry Month!
AMERICUS, GEORGIA IN SIXTY THREE
PUBLISHED in 1975
LULU WESTBROOK GRIFFIN
ONE OF 32 GIRLS LOCKED AWAY IN 1963 IN AN OLD
CIVIL WAR STOCKADE FOR PROTESTING SEGREGATION IN
HER HOMETOWN OF AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST X SPEAKER X POET
Attribution: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARCHIVE
Americus, Georgia in sixty three
There were obvious signs of bigotry,
Laws of Segregation were everywhere
White Supremacist Groups did not care.
The hatred they had for People of colour
Was blantant and vicious,
Toward my little sisters and brothers.
There were perpetrators, spectators,
Instigators, violators, Vigilantes, Agitators,
KKKS and NEGRO haters.
We marched with our Placards
And sang The FREEDOM Songs,
We were beaten and jailed
while making History at home.
Many fought for their freedom
to change the JIM CROW LAWS,
Now AMERICUS has signs of "LIBERTY"
And no more Segregated walls.
Read more about Civil Rights History and Poems @ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARCHIVE
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