Coles did an excellent job supporting and proving his ideas by citing historical facts as well as providing strong testimony from a participant with an accurate personal knowledge of the subject. One example of Coles subtly using a historical fact to support and to intensify the realities he was writing about was when he wrote, “John was particularly moved by his mother’s insistence that his generation was the first to be spared the worst of it—the constant possibility of lynching, the near-total lack of hope, the daily scorn that permitted no reply, no leeway.” With this quote Coles illustrated the severity of the times before desegregation (Coles, 328). Between 1182 and 1968, 4,743 lynching’s were documented in the United States, of this number 3,446 were Negro (Browner, The Charles Chesnutt digital archive). Along with his historical references, the personal experience recording by Coles gives the essay wonderful factual evidence and
Coles did an excellent job supporting and proving his ideas by citing historical facts as well as providing strong testimony from a participant with an accurate personal knowledge of the subject. One example of Coles subtly using a historical fact to support and to intensify the realities he was writing about was when he wrote, “John was particularly moved by his mother’s insistence that his generation was the first to be spared the worst of it—the constant possibility of lynching, the near-total lack of hope, the daily scorn that permitted no reply, no leeway.” With this quote Coles illustrated the severity of the times before desegregation (Coles, 328). Between 1182 and 1968, 4,743 lynching’s were documented in the United States, of this number 3,446 were Negro (Browner, The Charles Chesnutt digital archive). Along with his historical references, the personal experience recording by Coles gives the essay wonderful factual evidence and