Graduating high is a big accomplishment in a students life, but back in the fifty’s and sixty’s it was about more then just graduating. Mya Angelou describes in her article, “Graduation”, how graduation day was like for her back when color mattered. She is excited for the big day and thankful because she “thanked God no matter what evil I had done in my life He allowed me to live to see this day.”(79) That day was meant to be the best day for Mya and her class but the speaker made everyone feel that the only a black person was to be successful was to be athletic when he told them “one of the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette Country Training School.”(82) Feeling this way Mya was beginning to hate being
