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Merrygoroundpoem

This 3 stanza poem addresses racial segregation on amusement park rides like the merry-go-round during the Jim Crow era in the Southern United States. The speaker, a black child, questions where they are supposed to ride the merry-go-round since there is no designated "Jim Crow section" or separate area for black children as there was on trains and buses. The child observes there is no way to segregate riders on a circular ride like a merry-go-round.

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Merrygoroundpoem

This 3 stanza poem addresses racial segregation on amusement park rides like the merry-go-round during the Jim Crow era in the Southern United States. The speaker, a black child, questions where they are supposed to ride the merry-go-round since there is no designated "Jim Crow section" or separate area for black children as there was on trains and buses. The child observes there is no way to segregate riders on a circular ride like a merry-go-round.

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Merry-Go-Round

Where is the Jim Crow section


On this merry-go-round,
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Can't sit side by side.
Down South on the train
There's a Jim Crow car.
On the bus we're put in the back
But there ain't no back
To a merry-go-round!
Where's the horse
For a kid that's black?

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