For Selma
For Selma - context Summary
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Written in response to the Selma to Montgomery marches, Hughes’s "For Selma" links the local struggle to wider publics. The poem cycles place names and the words of children to suggest that news, protest, and hope spread from Selma to major cities at home and abroad. It reflects Hughes’s engagement with the Civil Rights Movement and his role as a public voice for racial justice.
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