<span>A group that was led by Martin Luther King Jr. and trained volunteers in nonviolent resistance was the "Southern Christian Leadership Conference."</span>
The first stanza of the poem shows this explicitly where they say that there's an old lady on an island that has a daughter who lives on a different continent with an ocean in between. This is easily seen in the first four lines of the poem.
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He wanted to show Europeans that the United States would not help Latin American independence movements.
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Immigrants that first arrived in the United States may have felt hopeful - Here was there chance to start anew in another land! Free to exercise their own rights!
However, newly arrived immigrants may also have felt anxious. They didn't know the lay of the land, they weren't aware of all of the laws, and they also had to deal with the natives accusing them of stealing work simply because the immigrants would work for a lower pay.
