The Welcome Table Short Story

Punished for Studying “They were remarkable, he said -- as sober as judges,” (Martin 70). These extraordinary sit-ins were to achieve rights for colored people who suffered atrociously. Can you imagine sitting at a diner counter with someone you love and knowing you might get beat to death? In the short story, “The Welcome Table” by Lee Martin from his collection, The Least You Need to Know, explains a seventeen year old boy experiencing this first hand, by displaying the atrocious acts on colored people. I assume he wrote this short story to exhibit how it was in 1960, during the sit-ins at restaurants, petitioning for the integration movement or the Civil Rights movement. The sit-ins from the Civil Rights movement were remarkable; one example is the short story, “The Welcome Table,” a perspective of this historical event, and the relations of this event to today. The short story, “The Welcome Table,” is historically paramount. The family in the short story; the Thibodeaux’, has hapless events in their background story (SP#9). The father and mother, Penny and …show more content…
This short story explained what was it like to treat African Americans just by sitting on the integrated counters, and college students nonetheless. Would you let the government control and completely take your rights away? Not only African Americans had to fight courageously for their rights, but they never experienced the right to be feel human until the Civil Rights movement. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite,” Nelson Mandela said this and if we live by this we would achieve the epitome of peace in the