James Fletcher

English

20 July, 04:18

Choose one of the examples of racial prejudice you highlighted as you read the excerpt. What does this example tell you about racial prejudice during this time period?

These sentences are examples of racial prejudice and its physical, mental, and emotional effects on African Americans during the twentieth century?

"This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair."

"In my mind's eye I could see him, sitting at the window, locked up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children who had betrayed him, too, by reaching towards the world which had despised him."