Based on your knowledge of the Mississippi, New Orleans, and Abe Lincoln with regards to slavery in the United States, why might the poet hear singing at this river? The Poem is "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers".

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a.something someone else is writing about b.a fact c.something you have written about before

He contains the main idea in a paragraph. a. thesis statement b. first sentence c. declarative statement d. topic sentence

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.