Educator for freedom
Founder of
Highland Folk School
One of the first integrated schools
I must give
Everyone an equal opportunity
No one left behind
I taught
Many people in
The movement
As if they were
Everyone else
I taught
People how
To have a voice
By voting
I helped
Make
The song
We Shall Overcome
I teach that
We are all one
And that to overcome
Anything we must
Be organized
People say
That I am communistic
To slander me
Peacefully I
Denied it
Even though
I do not
Demean it
I look at it as
Another belief
To be included
My school came
Together to
Give the miners
At Wilder
I accept everyone
To my school
No one is
Left behind
My Freedom Song
I am Strength
Not in the sense
Of physical but
Mentally
I push past racism
In my everyday life
I do not use it as
A crutch for personal
Protection
I do not allow
People to take
Advantage
Of race
I object racial slander
I do not let it impact my
Life
I strive for a world
With no racial attacks
And I fight this with my
Voice
When I see racism
I will tell
The user that this
Is a
Horrendous act towards
Humanity
I was the
Co-leader of
The students of
Color
I use my words as my
Cannons
Sinking the holders
Of racial terms
Breaking the barriers
Of inequality
To push out most
Of these terms
Until they are
Minuscule