Events:
What was issued to end slavery?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who said the following quote "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"?
Who is JFK?
What does the mother in the poem mainly compare life to?
What is a staircase?
What type of figurative language is used in the following quote from the poem "each desire has an edge"?
What is a metaphor?
Which poem has the quote "When company comes"?
What is "I, Too"?
What event outlawed discrimination based on race, gender, or religion?
What was the Civil Rights Act?
Who said the following quote "In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to chas a check...They were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir"?
Who is MLK?
The tone of the mother's advice can be best described as?
What is encouraging and resolute?
What type of figurative language is used in the following quote "I wish for you:knowledge"?
What is irony?
Which poem has the quote "Go ahead-see where it gets you"?
What is "Demeter's Prayer to Hades"?
What event happened in 1963?
When was JFK killed?
Who said the following quote "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war"?
Who is Abe Lincoln?
Who wrote the poem "Mother to Son"?
Who is Langston Hughes?
What is the central message of the poem?
What is consquences of selfish desire?
or What is every desire has a consquence?
Which poem has the quote "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"?
What is "Mother to Son"?
What event happened in 1968?
When was MLK killed?
Who said this quote "We conclude that, in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place"?
Who is Chief Justice Earl Warren?
What is the theme of the poem "Mother to Son"?
What is keep going even when life is hard?
What does Demeter mean when she says: "There are no curses-only mirrors held up to the souls of gods and mortals."?
What is we can't hide from our true selves?
What is the tone of the poem "I, Too"?
What is hopeful?
What court case was over giving up their seat train and saying it was unconstitutional?
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
Who said the following quote "The constitutionality of this act is attacked upon the ground that it conflicts both with the thirteenth amendment of the constitution... Which prohibts certain restrictive legislation on the part of the United States." ?
Who is Justice Henry Billings Brown?
What line from the poem best shows the Mother's determination to persevere?
What is "I'se been a-climbin' on?
What is the tone of the poem "Mother to Son"?
What is weary yet determined?