You read the poem Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes. That poem resonates with many minorities (Women, Asians, Native-Americans, Latinos, and African-Americans) living in post WWII America. What drea

You read the poem Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes.  That poem resonates with many minorities (Women, Asians, Native-Americans, Latinos, and African-Americans) living in post WWII America. What dreams were deferred for those people groups?  What do you think they expected after the war? What was their homecoming like

Minority soldiers came home from the war expecting to have earned their dream of integration, but their dreams were deferred.  

Harlem

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

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