How Far Have We Come
Paper #2 Assignment
English 10001
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Due date: April 4, 2006
"How Far Have We Come"
As a nation, how far have we come in decreasing the gap between the White's and African American's races, in respect to the social conditions in which each lives today? The autobiographical sketch, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" by Richard Wright, portray a young African American boy growing up in a pre civil rights era America.
As a young boy Wright, like all Blacks, must learn to live as "Jim Crow" in order to have any chance at all of surviving in a white dominated world. In other words, the Blacks had to eat, sleep, and drink in a way the White population found appropriate, or the Blacks would have to deal with some severe punishment.
The average African American families usually lived in the worst section of town segregated from the Whites. The author, Wright, tells us "Our house stood behind the railroad tracks. It skimpy yard was paved with black cinders. Nothing green......
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