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Portrait of Lorraine HasberryI can hear Rosalee

See the eyes of Willie McGee

My mother told me about

Lynchings

My mother told me about

The dark nights

And dirt roads

And torch lights

And lynch robes

The

faces of men

Laughing white

Faces of men

Dead in the night

sorrow night

and a

sorrow night

 

By Lorraine Hansberry, 1951

Lynching drawing by Hansberry