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Historical Background of the PoetryNameInstitution AffiliationCourseDate of Submission The poem, “The last Quatrain of the Battle of Emmett Till“ was written during the period of strong racial discrimination in America. Racial discrimination was so perverse in the country to an extent that a mere whistling to a white could earn a black person death penalty. An African American boy was lynched in Mississippi for a simple mistake of leering at a white woman. It can therefore, be said that the exact period when the poem was written was in the 20th century. According to Dubois (2009), racial segregations were one of the serious problems that were confronting Americans during th...