Base your answer to the question on the poem below and your knowledge of social studies
One Way Ticket
I am fed up With Jim Crow laws,
People who are cruel and afraid,
Who lynch and run, who are scared of me
And me of them. I pick up my life
And take it away on a one-way ticket
Gone Up North Gone Out West
Gone!
-Langston Hughes, 1926
Why does the author state that he has “Gone”?
Select one of the following: