I No Y the Caged bird sings
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a fascinating eye opener to the Jim Crow period in the New South. It has a greater impact than textbooks on what it was like to be African American at that time in history because it is a story of real experiences that appeals to the readers' emotions like no history textbook ever can. While Maya Angelou's story is unique in that her experiences are hers alone, it is also a universal story that shows how black people were treated during that period and likewise how that affected their views of the world and, consequently, of themselves. The Jim Crow period can be defined as "the systematic practice of promoting the segregation of the Negro peoples: favoring or promoting the segregation of the Negroes." Jim Crow Laws were laws created for the ultimate purpose of keeping blacks and whites segregated. At the time they used the phrase "separate but equal," however that wasn't really the case: African Americans were not viewed by most whites to be truly equal citizens; they were instead looked down upon. In Maya Angelou's autobiographical novel, she illustrates for her readers the experiences she went through as a black girl growing up in the United States during
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Approximate Word count = 1277
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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