Black Boy In 1945 Analysis

After the Civil Rights Movement, tensions between white Americans and black Americans decreased. However, during the past few years, with the death of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, racial tensions have increased yet again due to the increase in media coverage of America’s social awareness of racial profiling. The country is becoming racially divided even with a black president, Barack Obama, as the nation’s leader. Some people argue that tensions have become even worse between different ethnic groups. In a recent poll, 41 percent of Americans think the police use deadly force against them. 83 percent among black men..(Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus, Poll: What do Americans feel about race relations?). One famous African American author who wrote about the inequalities that African Americans face was Richard Wright who was born after the Civil War, but died before the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Richard Wright wrote the novel Black Boy in 1945, which reflected on the many inequalities that black Americans faced daily …show more content…
In one of the most famous court case, Brown vs Board of Education, the court ruled that the all laws establishing segregated schools were unconstitutional and forced all schools to become desegregated. A few years after this decision, in 1957, the town of Little Rock, Arkansas admitted nine black students into the school. (Little Rock Nine, Black History) The white population was furious and blocked the entrance to the school and spoke vile words as the students walked to school. Eventually, the national guard was called in to escort the kids into the school. Today, even if it isn’t as extreme, there is still racism in schools. The white women who asked if the blacks liked her confederate flags is a clear example of it. Not only are the kids being discriminated by students, they are discriminated by parents and other