Give Me Your Tired~Emma Lazarus #beyondblackhistorymonth #history #BeadsOnaString

"Give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me;

I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

 --The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born July 22, 1849 in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883, which is now engraved on a bronze plaque on a wall in the base of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal. Her poem was placed on the Statue of Liberty in 1903

"Beads on a String. Leave One Out and the Gap is Seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost."Beads On a String- America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History. http://wade-inpublishing.blogspot.com

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