Un Billet Sens Unique. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

The speaker in the poem can be identified with L. Hughes himself. Born in Dixie, with its segregationist Jim Crow laws, he intends to take his life to the North, East and West of the US. This is just what Hughes did with his life. He succeeded as a writer in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Harlem, among other places. He would not have got anywhere in the South. He mentions the cruel people in Dixie, who fear negroes, and even lynch them and run. All of this, of course, took place in US history.
Related book: 'Black and White. The Way I See It', by Richard Williams with Bart davis. Richard Williams, father and coach of Venus and Serena, suffered racist treatment from whites in his birth place, Shreveport, Louisiana; so much so that he from Dixie to a job in Chicago, then to Compton, LA, where he did most of his tennis coaching
of Venus and Serena, Then to 'Leisure Acres' in Florida.