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African American Graduation Research Paper

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Graduation The way African- Americans have been treated by white Americans in history is truly awful and disgraceful. Maya Angelou is an African- American eighth grader who will be graduating shortly. She could not be more excited about the day she has been anticipating for months now “I was the person of the moment” (76) feels Maya. Maya and other African- Americans were treated unfairly and discriminated against because of the color of their skin. As graduation day occurs, a white man gets up and gives a speech about all the white scholars and only mentions a couple of the African- Americans that were on the sports teams for their accomplishments. Maya is outraged by the way he could not give any congratulations to the other African- Americans
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