I know why the caged bird sing
Racism is not only around today- racism has been around for a long time. It became a huge issue in the United States when we started to bring slaves over from Africa. The racism grew after the civil war when the blacks were freed from the bondage of slavery. Racism hit a high around the time the "Jim Crow Laws" were passed. Blacks and whites were segregated; each had to use their different sections of public property, and the racism grew stronger and stronger. Maya Angelou lived, around WW II, in Arkansas. In her book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings she tells of her life, and she tells of the racism that she, as a black female, had to go through in life. In her book we see that racism affects everyone, and someone is always hurt.The white folks in this story are not as kind to Maya as she would like them to be. The whites held themselves superior to blacks, because they were different. The whites even expected the blacks to treat them better than they would treat others. They would make the blacks walk out of their way so that they would not walk by them on the streets, and would make them call them Miss, Mrs., and Mr. Also when Mama took Maya to the dentist the white girl shut the door on her. She waited till doctor
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Approximate Word count = 1058
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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