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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

And the river flows like a stream of glass;

When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,

And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—

I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;

For he must fly back to his perch and cling

When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;

And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars

And they pulse again with a keener sting—

I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee,

But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—

I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence. Dunbar, "“Sympathy.”" from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, )

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James Baldwin's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement was not something that changed the whole movement but it helped. What Baldwin did to help the CRM was spread public awareness of racial and sexually oppression. His honest portrayal of his personal experiences in a national context challenged America to uphold the values it promised on equality and justice.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwin#:~:text=Baldwin's%20works%20helped%20to%20raise,promised%20on%20equality%20and%20justice.

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When Rosa Parks did not sit in the back of the bus she helped the Civil Rights Movement develop because when she did that, it made people think that it was wrong to have to make them sit in the back. It would also help people with Color want to stand up because someone has already done it and it will be a chain reaction

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The Civil Rights Movement was a movement or a group of people fighting for there rights in this case it was Black people in america fighting for equal rights

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The Civil Rights Movement happened because even after the slaves were freed they were still not treated like they were free people would make them feel like there were nothing so people got fed up with it and made a change

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The impact the CRM had on so many people is crazy, after the end of the movement African Americans could vote and they had equal rights to everyone.

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Uses the symbol of a caged bird is how bad African Americans were treated they were being treated like caged birds and didnt help them