Her father was a social worker and executive secretary of the YMCA and her mother was a teacher. When she was young her parents would read to her the works of the great black writers. She grew up in Cleveland and attended Ohio State University where she experienced her first taste of racial strife, but still received a bachelor's degree in education in 1953. She began writing novels, short stories, and poems while still in college and a month after graduation she was married. The family moved to New York City so Kennedy could attend graduate school at Columbia University.
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson For my independent reading project, I chose to read The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in Potsdam, New York. Through her early life, Anderson struggled with emotional stress stemming from the divorce of her parents. This struggle played out in her adult life, as Anderson divorced her first husband, Greg Anderson, and consequently suffered from psychological trauma. Despite this, upon meeting and marrying her childhood sweetheart, Scot Larrabee, Anderson channeled her emotions into novels.
She focused on her school work and was a member of the literary honor society and glee club. She transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and became the editor of the Rammer Jammer. During her junior year, Lee attended law school and was forced to leave her position as editor but she soon realized that her calling was writing and dropped out to move to New York City to pursue her dreams.
After a long term against, they get some good effects. The sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln, “on January 1, 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.” (www.whitehouse.gov) It is a historic matter that blacks have a good effort to win the respect. However, the discrimination still appeared in the whole country. The black people still need to struggle the unfairness from society. In this process, it occurred a lot murder and violence.
Southern Gothic is a type of writing done by many writers in the American South. Usually, it includes strange, bizarre, or supernatural events. In 1961, Lee won a very important award for the book, called the Pulitzer Prize. To Kill a Mockingbird is semi-autobiographical which means that it is loosely based on events and people from the author's own life. The names of the characters, however, are different in the book.
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January, 1891. Many people believe that she was born in Eatonville, Florida, but she was really born in Notasulga, Alabama. In 1892, her family decided to move to Eatonville. “Her experiences there provided inspiration for several of her novels” (Zora Neale Hurston 1900-1940 Exhibition. Date accessed 4/25/2009 http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/hurston.html).
Tulsa R ace Riots By Carmela Swinton During the early 1920s, the United States of America went through many significant changes both social and political. The Ku Klux Klan was reformed for the second time, racial segregation was common, and lynching and assault was common through the USA particularly the Southern area. These changes would develop racial tensions between the traditional White Anglo Saxon Protestant and that of the African Americans and other minority groups. Such racial tensions would eventually lead to many race riots including the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goal for racial segregation and white supremacy.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Influence by Kiana Smith Jan. 3, 2011 Pd 1A/1B The meaning of the word influence is to have an affect on someone's thoughts or actions. In the famous novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, many citizens of Maycomb give and take in influence. Maycomb is an old, tired town in the southern state of Alabama based during the 1930s. Prejudice occurs, not only against one's complexion, but against one's upbringing and choices. In the novel, Atticus Finch whom is the town lawyer, is defending an African American known as Tom Robinson.
Discrimination of Our Own In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many accounts of racism. This novel takes place in the 1930’s, a time where racism was at an all time high. Harper Lee shows us how colored people and white people were segregated in many ways. Even though a majority of the discrimination was towards the colored, there were times where the poverty stricken families were seen less worthy than the richer families. Racism is one of the main motifs the book is based on.
For example, racial profiling is considered to be a form of stereotyping and discrimination, which fuels the injustice of racial inequality – racism. There are countless examples from centuries past and up to now that support claims of racial discrimination amongst minority groups. For example, “during the eras of lynching in the South in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, southern sheriffs sat idly by while racists like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized African Americans (ACLU, 2013).” More recently, another example is “the targeting that has been ongoing since the September 11th attacks, of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians for detention on minor immigrant violations in the absence of any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center or the Pentagon (ACLU,