The Act's Of Racism In The 20th Century

The Act's of Racism In The 20th Century

Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou were very well known authors of the early

20th century. Most of their writings were concerned with racism and equality. During

that time period there was much evidence that African Americans had been treated

unfairly, unjustly, and as if they had been beneath the whites. Segregation of schools,

churches, bathrooms, and stores were only a few of the many things wrong with this ere.

Racism was very apparent in the two short stories "Graduation" and "One Friday

Morning". In one of these, a young girl is put down because of the color of her skin, and

in the other, a whole class and audience were made to feel lower than they should have.

In Langston Hughes short story "One Friday Morning" a young girl by the name

of Nancy Lee was denied an art scholarship because of the color of her skin. When she

first learned that she was going to receive a reward for one of her pictures, she became

very excited as any young girl her age would have been. Her vice principal Miss O'Shay

was also very excited for her. She wanted Nancy to speak at a ceremony in honor of this

art scholarship.

Friday morning came, and what was thought to be an adventurous day filled with

lots a happiness, turned out to be the exact opposite for Nancy Lee. Just before she was