i
Have Arrived
i
am the
New Negro
i
Have Arrived
i
am the
New Negro
i
am the result of
President Lincoln
World War I
and Paris
the
Red Ball Express
white drinking fountains
sitdowns and
sit-ins
Federal Troops
Marches on Washington
and
prayer meetings...
today
They hired me
it
is a status
job...
along
with my papers
They
gave me my
Status Symbol
the
key
to the
White...Locked...
John
---Mari Evans, published in Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature ed. Abraham Chapman (New York, New York: Signet, 2001) ** Note spacing differences in original.
President Lincoln
World War I
and Paris
the
Red Ball Express
white drinking fountains
sitdowns and
sit-ins
Federal Troops
Marches on Washington
and
prayer meetings...
today
They hired me
it
is a status
job...
along
with my papers
They
gave me my
Status Symbol
the
key
to the
White...Locked...
John
---Mari Evans, published in Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature ed. Abraham Chapman (New York, New York: Signet, 2001) ** Note spacing differences in original.
