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Although slavery was abolished, there was still segregation and blacks were treated poorly. A good example is Roll of Thunder. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry, there was no school bus for the black students. There was also a low quality school for the black students, with hand-me-down stuff from the white school. In order for the blacks to go shopping without being “hurt”, they had to go on a day-long trip out of town. Not just that, though. White folks would just pick on the black folks. An example of the blacks not being treated right is when the Berry’s were burned. White folks decided to burn them because one of them was flirting with a white customer at the store. Also, while at Strawberry, they had to get stuff at a store, but the man behind the counter kept putting them off to the side to help white customers (Taylor). The racism and other “fun” stuff was absolutely terrible in this time. In the 1960s, there was very little to no segregation. But, blacks still weren’t being treated right or equally. For example, in Hidden Figures, Katherine would have to run many miles to use the bathroom, …show more content…

Racism hasn’t gotten better. If anything, it’s gotten worse. Innocent black people are being shot by cops because they “look suspicious”. But, there are people trying to fix it, and many protests. The main thing is that racism isn’t just about blacks. There’s also racism against Muslims, even white people. I can back this up because when you go on social media, under “#BlackLivesMatter”, there’s a high possibility you will see something along the lines of “I woke up this morning wanting to stab me a white person” (dre) or “I wanna shoot all these white girls in the face.” (Char Char).There’s many more too. You might be able to guess that those tweets are from black people with the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Racism is no longer about just blacks, IT’S EVERY RACE! So, racism has gotten worse because it has now opened to a wider variety of

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The book even mentions that Blacks were attacked in their housing without having provoked a White at all. In regards to education, the South limited Blacks through prohibitive and regulative actions. Many Whites directly impeded knowledge by making it illegal for Blacks to visit Black libraries (page 84). On another front, they prohibited learning by restricting funding for Black schools and materials. Books and materials were hand-me-downs from White

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In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Stacey’s perspective of friendship with T.J. and Jeremy is unique and this affects the decisions he makes in Chapter 7. Stacey allows T.J. to do almost anything around him, even though T.J. is rude and naughty. But, T.J. is still Stacey’s best friend. Stacey is pretty rude to Jeremy even though Jeremy is super nice to the Logans and T.J.’s family. Stacey’s friendship with these two boys are very different.

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Black lives truly did get much worse. Now the inability to speak out against injustice, fearing the fact that officers could get away with anything unlike before where voices were heard and feel free to speak

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When slavery was abolished, Jim Crow laws were put into effect to keep African Americans and Whites separated. During these times black slaves were to receive 4 acres of land and a mule from the slave owner to repay them for the incarceration as slaves. Due to the split labor market, blacks had a harder time retaining their jobs, and the jobs that were approved for blacks were low paying. Despite the these societal disadvantages against the African American people, some slaves like my great, great, great grandfather, Wesley A. Settles who built the first school in Edgefield, SC where he taught African American children how to read and write, were able to rise and prosper. With his rise and prosperity, he became a victim of racism.

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No matter if you were a colored adult, teenager, or straight out your mother 's womb; if you were colored you weren 't equal in any means. During this time period ‘separate but equal’ was a doctrine thanks to the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling; meaning segregation was technically legal. According to the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling it was legal to segregate public areas but to the fourteenth amendment it was not legal to segregate schools, “Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -- even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal” (The National Center for Public Policy Research 2). Everything was separate but certainly not equal, colored people weren’t allowed in certain stores, bathrooms, and even buses. If you were a person of color in this time not only did you have to worry about inequality but you also had an organization that would kill, hang, burn, and skin you.

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In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie being exposed to the harsh actions of the world showcases a loss of innocence story in which she also learned the motives of people's actions. First of all, shortly after Cassie was ridiculed by Mr.Barnett and thrown onto the street by Mr.Simms for simply standing in front of Lillian Jean, she narrates, “No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.”(116). Since Cassie never had a personal experience of being abused by white people, Mr.Simms’ actions took her by surprise and left her shocked about what had occurred. In a situation, when someone is more experienced such as a mother or father, they would act more rationally because they had already lost their innocence of how they think the world is like, but when someone has not been in a certain situation like that, they may act more irrationally, such as claiming that it was one of the worst days of their life.

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