Discrimination In The Secret Life Of Bees

Secret Life Of Bees Civil Rights and Discrimination The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd captures the important fight for civil rights in the 1960’s. “All People ever talked about after church were the Negroes and whether they’d get there get their Civil Rights. Who was winning- the white people’s team or the colored people’s team.” (Kidd, 21). In The Secret Life Of Bees race played a large role in the characters lives, Lily and Rosaleen were shown to have conflicts, along with showing a conflict through religion, thus suggesting that there was a large amount of wrongdoing towards African Americans. The main character of secret life of bees Lily spent most of her time with people who she did not share the same skin color with, to Lily

Being able to register to vote was a very exciting event for many African Americans during this time, and as Rosaleen was on her way with Lily when some men started giving Rosaleen a hard time. When Rosaleen gave these men her characteristic attitude and poured out her tobacco spit cup on their shoes she got herself in trouble, and ended up being taken to jail. While in Jail the men who had the conflict with Rosaleen, came to the jail so they could get their payback. Rosaleen was taken to the hospital where Lily found her hours later. She described the event the Lily saying, “that policeman called Shoe let those men come in for their apology… Two of them held me by the arms while the the other one hit me...He hit me till the policeman said that was enough.” (Kidd, 47). In her description she showed how the policeman was well aware of what the men were going to do and allowed it to happen because it was acceptable to do so. Rosaleen was seriously injured because of a conflict that started because of the color of her skin and because she wanted to register to