America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.

In this chant-like sequence, Ginsberg invokes a roll call of emblematic left-wing and civil-liberties causes—Tom Mooney, the Spanish Loyalists, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Scottsboro Boys—each associated with contested trials, political repression, or anti-fascist solidarity. Addressing “America” directly, the speaker collapses decades of protest history into a single accusatory appeal, implying that the nation’s self-image as “free” is contradicted by its treatment of dissidents, immigrants, and Black defendants. The final line (“I am the Scottsboro boys”) intensifies the rhetoric by shifting from advocacy to identification, a Beat-era gesture of moral witness that asks readers to see these persecuted figures as part of America’s own body and conscience.