The Color Of Courage Short Story

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“The Color of Courage” takes the viewer onto a journey, where racism still runs strong. Segregation, separating cities and communities, across the country. What happens when a black family moves across the tracks into a white neighborhood. “The Color of Courage” following the true story Sipes vs McGhee.
Sipes vs McGhee was one of the biggest civil rights cases, to ever make it to the supreme court. 1944 Detroit, Michigan a small suburban neighborhood, still bound with laws of segregation with civil rights being pushed and tested everyday. Mac McGhee, a light skinned African American, in pursuit to create a better life for his wife and children, purchases a new home in a white-only neighborhood. When neighbors discover the McGhees moved into

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