Vintage Hughes - Mississippi Summary & Analysis

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Vintage Hughes - Mississippi Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Vintage Hughes.
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Mississippi Summary

Tears and blood mix like rain in Mississippi when racial terror returns to the southern state.

Mississippi Analysis

Though the subject of the poem remains cryptic, we can assume that the poem was a reaction to a specific hate crime that took place in Mississippi, as Hughes says that terror has come again to Mississippi after having gone into hiding for a time.

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