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Segregation In The Black Table By Lawrence Otis Graham

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The article about “The Black Table” is talking about why did black students separate themselves from the others? The so-called self imposed segregation occurred during lunch period and continued throughout the author’s Junior High years. Several occasions occurred, showing how alive and well racism was at that time. The author shows us an example. Graham witnessed racism, first hand, at the country club pool where, his being there, “prompted incensed white parents to pull their kids from the pool in terror.” (Graham pg 1) The audience of this story were readers of the New York Times in 1991. The purpose of this story is to illustrate how often racism occurs and that it’s still happening. Lawrence Otis Graham is the speaker of
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