Over the years, the population has been oppressed to prejudice and racism. Many showing signs of these concepts and hiding the bare truth behind it all. A grown man, John Howard Griffin eventually experienced how it felt to be discriminated against and was a victim to certain prejudice due to the color of his skin. Rather than be silent about all this concept in the 50’s, he decided to conduct a social experiment. Acknowledging the fact that he was a white male, he planned to consult a dermatologist to proceed with caution. Eventually, Griffin could stain his skin temporarily. Although, he didn’t experience this moment for a long time, he recognized the feeling for the first time. This feeling of hatred coming from people when being discriminated.
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A black man by the name of Mack Parker, had been murdered by a lynch mob after being convicted of raping a white female. “Bill pointed out places in a quiet expressionless voice. “That’s the jail where they snatched him. They went up to his cell-and grabbed his feet and dragged him down so his head bumped against each stair step. They found blood on them, and blood at the bottom landing” (Griffin 63). He doesn’t interact with the situation as much but he obtains the information from Negroes on buses and around the cities. The uproar in Montgomery, Alabama is vividly present as they hear about the incident. However, there’s a presence of a young black male that seeks to bring justice to the prejudice obtained in courts. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” This is a phrase from his speeches that reaches out to the black and white community in hope of relieving the courts and other locations of
A black man by the name of Mack Parker, had been murdered by a lynch mob after being convicted of raping a white female. “Bill pointed out places in a quiet expressionless voice. “That’s the jail where they snatched him. They went up to his cell-and grabbed his feet and dragged him down so his head bumped against each stair step. They found blood on them, and blood at the bottom landing” (Griffin 63). He doesn’t interact with the situation as much but he obtains the information from Negroes on buses and around the cities. The uproar in Montgomery, Alabama is vividly present as they hear about the incident. However, there’s a presence of a young black male that seeks to bring justice to the prejudice obtained in courts. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” This is a phrase from his speeches that reaches out to the black and white community in hope of relieving the courts and other locations of