Langston Hughes on Scottsboro Citing specific evidence Synthesizing

Langston Hughes on Scottsboro • Citing specific evidence • Synthesizing three pieces of poetry • Making generalizations • Crafting a well supported paragraph

Justice • That Justice is a blind • What does it mean to goddess say that justice is blind? Is a thing to which we black • Why does Hughes call are wise: Justice a “blind Her bandage hides two goddess? ” Address both festering sores words. That once perhaps were • What is his tone with eyes. regards to justice? • What is his point?

The Town of Scottsboro's just a little place: No shame is write across its face -Its courts too weak to stand against a mob, Its people's heart, too small to hold a sob. • Why does he suggest that Scottsboro has “no shame write across its face? ” • Who is the mob? • What does he mean by “hold a sob? ” • What is he saying about the town?

Scottsboro 8 BLACK BOYS IN A SOUTHERN JAIL WORLD, TURN PALE! 8 black boys and one white lie. Is it much to die? Is it much to die when immortal feet March with you down Time's street, When beyond steel bars sound the deathless drums Like a mighty heart-beat as they come? Who comes? Christ, Who fought alone John Broan. That mad mob That tore the Bastile down Stone by stone. Moses. Jeanne d'Arc. Dessalines. Nat Turner. Fighters for the free. Lenin with the flag blood red. (Not dead! None of those is dead. ) Gandhi. Sandino. Evangelista, too. To walk with you -8 BLACK BOYS IN A SOUTHERN JAIL WORLD, TURN PALE! • John Broan-Abolitionist who led Bleeding Kansas rebellion • Bastile---French prison stormed in French Revol. • Jeanne de Arc-Joan of Arc-martyr executed by England • Desalines-Founding father of Haitistirred slave rebellion caused by French Revol. -created strict rules to prevent white dominance • Nat Turner-led slave rebellions • Lenin-led Bolshevik Revolutionfounder of Communist party • Ghandi-pacifist-led Indian independence movement through nonviolent civil disobedience • Sandino-Nicaraguan Revolutionary • Evangelista-led Philippine Revolution

Scottsboro • What does it mean to be immoral? • Who does Hughes say are the immoral ones who “March with you down Time’s street? ” • Are these people “immoral? ” • These people are in fact dead, so what does he mean by “Not dead! None of these is dead? ” • To whom is Hughes addressing in his poem? • What is the meaning of pale? • What do you think he means by WORLD, TURN PALE?