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Brown V Board Of Education Analysis

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The play takes place after World War II, during the postwar booms. The era of the Baby boom, the growth of the suburbs, the tension of the cold war, and the civil rights movements. During this time, African Americans had an ongoing war with the dilemma of racial discrimination. In 1954, during the historical case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme court decided that black children were free to attend any institution they desired, and as Afro-Americas families enrolled their children in all “white schools”, many used hostility and extortion to prevent any Afro- American from entering schools. In 1955, “Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a city bus to a white person. Her arrest sparked a 13-month boycott of the city’s buses by its black citizens, which only ended when the bus companies stopped discriminating against African American passengers” (A+E Networks, 2010). Acts of hate against black citizens became a daily dilemma, from lynching them, to name calling, to hate crimes. …show more content…

Her family was subjected to segregation. At the age of eight, her family tried moving to an all-white neighborhood. “Restrictive covenants, in which white property owners agreed not to sell to blacks, [they] secretly bought a property. The family was threatened by a white mob, which threw a brick through a window, narrowly missing Lorraine. The Supreme Court of Illinois upheld the legality of the restrictive covenant and forced the family to leave the house” (Chicago Public Library, 2003). Her own experience led her to write her play, seeing the multitude of her people being threatened, and treated as nobody’s due to their skin color. Overall A Raisin in the Sun embodied an era of hatred and racism as Hansberry experience foreshadow the ideas of the

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