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A 3 page introduction, conclusion and outline covering the importance of the Langston Hughes’ poem in “The Crucible of Character: A Personal Account of Swarthmore’s Crisis of 1969.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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involving a college, obviously in 1969, which involved issues of the African American population at the college, although it was also about much more than the colleges attitudes. In this
essay the author refers to a poem by Langston Hughes, a famous and powerful poem called A Dream Deferred. The following paper examines the significance of the poem as it
relates to the essay. OUTLINE I. The author begins the essay, and then spends a great deal fo time in the essay, essentially setting the stage for the
discussion of the event of 1969. He illustrates the struggles of the African American people through such figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and illustrates the conditions on the campus,
as well as the history of the campus, as it involves the African American people. He notes, for example, that, "Part of the puzzle can be explained by the observation
that, pre-crisis, black students were invisible at Swarthmore" (Etheridge). He is, in these first pages, laying the foundation for understanding the cause of the "Crisis." II. A Dream Deferred. This
poem appears after the author illustrates that although he was the chairman of the Afro-American Students Society (SASS) he was not an angry or bitter man, only a young man
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as something that he claims the SASS relates to
admissions, seemingly as though being grateful for being admitting to the college was very much the same as a dream deferred. III. The author sees issues, from a personal
perspective, that relate more to Ellisons Invisible Man. But, the Langston poem is presented because it seems to speak to more issues, more realities, more perspectives. IV. The entire
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