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......

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