Jessie Gleason Poems

Nine high schoolers walked to school
The disgust of the people pounding down on their shoulders
Proud of their rights
Proud of their freedoms
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Ruby Bridges was a young girl
Faced with the depression of segregation
But she wanted a good education
She wanted to go to school
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Martin Luther King was a preacher of peace
He could have been brutal and violent and fought
But he didn't turn violent or brutal
He fought with his words, nothing more nothing less
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