How It Feels To Be Colored Me Summary

In the short story “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Hurston the true understanding of what equality stands for is revealed. Civil rights are something our nation has strived to achieve many times. The time of slavery and discrimination was when civil rights was needed most. During the era of Abraham Lincoln hatred towards the minority group of African Americans were at its peak. Slavery was not a banned tradition as it is now, but part of the country’s prosperity. People such as Abraham Lincoln saw it as a distasteful and cruel act, but slavery was only a portion of the African Americans problem. The history of America holds many unfortunate and gloomy tales that African Americans, and countless other minorities have suffered. Literature has brought forth a way for our ancestors to inscribe what they have learned through life experiences into pages for future generations. Stories such as “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” is a terrific example of past experiences. The author of the story stars as the character, and describes her life understandings while

When civil rights are being discussed we always think of African Americans because of their significance to it. The obvious event that African Americans had to overcome to achieve their equality was slavery. Hurston does discuss slavery but not too much in depth; however, she does signifies it as a terrible part of African American history. In the short story she inscribes “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand daughter of slaves” (Hurston). The quote explains her connection to slavery; however, it would seem she is frustrated by certain individuals bringing that particular subject up. Furthermore, she marks down “Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me” (Hurston). Zora implies that slavery was something that African Americans to endure just to be part of the