We Wear the Mask

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This is a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1896. The short poem symbolizes the tendency for oppressed African Americans to hide their suffering during the post-Civil War Era. This text is for 8th grade readers.

Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage
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