They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there.

This excerpt is missing the question. The question is: Which word best describes the setting of this stage?

So the correct answer to this open question is the following. The word that best describes the setting of this stage is D) enchanted.

The other options of the question were A) ordinary. B) stormy. C) calm.

We are referring to the story "The People Could Fly," a collection of folktales published by American author Virginia Hamilton in 1985. The tales refer to stories of African American slaves that have been transmitted by oral tradition through generations.

jim crow law, in u.s. history, any of the laws in which racial was enforced, in the south between the finish of reconstruction in 1877 and the start of the social liberties development during the 1950s.

jim crow was the name of a minstrel routine( jump jim crow) performed starting in 1828 by its creator, thomas dartmouth ("daddy") rice, and by numerous imitators, including on-screen character joseph jefferson.

the term came to be a defamatory sobriquet for african americans and an assignment for their segregated life. the segregation rule was stretched out to parks, graveyards, theaters, and eateries with an end goal to keep any contact among blacks and whites as equivalents.

it was classified on neighborhood and state levels and most broadly with the "separate yet equivalent" choice of the u.s. preeminent court in plessy v. ferguson (1896).

d) post-world war i