Assignment task:
Prompt:
The poet Langston Hughes is most often associated with Harlem, a Black neighborhood in New York City that culturally flourished as a result of the Great Migration. But Hughes spent time in Chicago as well and portrayed the lives of migrants to the city in his 1949 collection of poems, One-Way Ticket.
Questions:
Q1. Why are African Americans leaving the South, according to Hughes' poem "One-Way Ticket"?
Q2. What is the experience of migration like as portrayed in the poem and the picture by Jacob Lawrence shown above?
Analyze the prompt and Answer Each question in paragraph form.