{"id":48,"date":"2015-07-12T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/abealfreader2\/?post_type=chapter&p=48"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:54:15","slug":"chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/abealfreader2\/chapter\/chapter-6\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 6","rendered":"Chapter 6"},"content":{"raw":"

Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section.<\/p>\r\nhttps:\/\/media.bccampus.ca\/id\/0_l360m1gz?width=608&height=70&playerId=23449753\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_67\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]\"harlem<\/a> Art from Harlem[\/caption]\r\n\r\nHarlem is a place in New York. Many black people in the USA moved to Harlem in the 1920s. A lot of art was being made by black artists in Harlem. They made books, poems, plays, paintings, and music. The art helped black people come together as one community.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_109\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"267\"]\".\"<\/a> Langston Hughes House[\/caption]\r\n\r\nLangston had moved around all his life. But he made\u00a0a home in Harlem. More and more people read his poems. His poems were printed in books and magazines. People began to pay him to write more poems. Soon he did not need to work other jobs. His job was to write. Langston used his poems\u00a0to fight racism. You can see this in his poem called \u201cI, Too.\u201d It is about a slave or servant who cannot eat with the white people when company comes. Black people were kept apart from white people in most\u00a0places\u00a0outside the home, too.\r\n

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I, too, sing America.<\/p>\r\n

I am the darker brother.<\/p>\r\n

They send me to eat in the kitchen<\/p>\r\n

When company comes,<\/p>\r\n

But I laugh,<\/p>\r\n

And eat well,<\/p>\r\n

And grow strong.<\/p>\r\n

-\u00a0 from \"I, Too\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

See Chapter 6<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>in BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 2<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>","rendered":"

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