Poem 34 from the Freedom Summer Poems Collection
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Poem 34 is one of forty-five poems and poem fragments written on butcher paper with markers and/or pens on topics related to the Civil Rights Movement. Poem 34 describes a row of shacks, but the collection, titled Freedom Summer Poems, as a whole includes poems about Mississippi but also references the Vietnam War and other international events. While the origin of the poems is unknown, notes in the accession record indicate that the poems may have been created by Civil Rights activists in Council of Federated Organizations safe houses in Jackson, MS, during Freedom Summer.
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Mississippi
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circa 1964
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en
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Physical: 2 cu. ft.
Digital: 1.9 MB
Digital: 1.9 MB
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EN3414_Spring2024_civilrightspoem.jpg
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Unknown, “Poem 34 from the Freedom Summer Poems Collection,” Mississippi State University Libraries, accessed April 11, 2024, https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/items/show/2618.
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A row
of same looking shacks
with blacks
oppressed
I saw in Sylvester Georgia
New Neat
in rows and stacks
still shacks
still oppression
I saw in New York City
of same looking shacks
with blacks
oppressed
I saw in Sylvester Georgia
New Neat
in rows and stacks
still shacks
still oppression
I saw in New York City
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, “Poem 34 from the Freedom Summer Poems Collection,” Mississippi State University Libraries, accessed September 3, 2026, https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/items/show/2618.
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