home work 47

The book I read was Freedom's Children by Ellen Levine, it was a book of stories by thirty black teenagers growing up during segregation. The setting of the book was in the south between the 1950's and the 1960's. The teens each told the their stories about what they went through during this time. The talked about the unfar things they went through just because the color of their skin. Some of the things they talked about was, sitting in front of the bus and not welling to give up their set, being some of the first to integrate public school's as well as eatting at all white restaurants. That was just to list a few of the things they did to get treated equal and get freedom. By fighting for their rights they were they face arest, violence and even death.

This book relates well with my topic because in some of the stories they talked about how the schooling for blacks was very unfar. They wanted to integrate school's so that blacks can have equal chances of success, al though when school did become integrated the still found ways to hold them back. This relates with my topic because i wanted to talk about is there equal right in schools now for blacks or are they still getting the short end of the stick.

In one of the stories by Fred Taylor, he talked about how he want to a segregated school and a white teacher. she asted him to make a speech but she wanted it to be," non-confrontational, with non- movement language in it. Just a nice high school speech". He was unable do so. meaning he wrote the speech and went over it many of time with his teacher but he was unable to go out and give a speech that he didn't really belive in. this relates to mu topic because i feel this teach was trying to hold Fred back from saying how he really felt . Through my paper i'm talking about are black people getting held bach or not.