Base your answer to the question on the poem below and your knowledge of social studies  
One Way Ticket  
I am fed up With Jim Crow laws, 
People who are cruel and afraid, 
Who lynch and run, who are scared of me  
And me of them. I pick up my life 
And take it away on a one-way ticket
 Gone Up North Gone Out West 
Gone!  
      -Langston Hughes, 1926  
 Why does the author state that he has “Gone”? 
Select one of the following: