Relating Civil Rights to Raisin in the SunAnnalie Brining

Employment Opportunities

1960 America• People refused to hire

black Americans• Unskilled labor and

service jobs• Only allowed positions

in their own communities

• Most African Americans lived below the poverty line

A Raisin in the Sun

• Walter is a chauffeur• Ruth is a housekeeper• These are not very

good jobs• Only ones they could

get• Were not being paid

well

Segregated Housing

1960 America

• Early 1900 scattered into white neighborhoods.

• Projects such as urban renewal policies began making them segregated

• Whites began to flee to the suburbs

A Raisin in the Sun

• Their family didn’t have a very good place to live

• No one wanted them in the new neighborhood

• Everyone thinks that segregation is just how it suppose to be

My Ethnic Background

• Italian• Irish• English • German

• My family doesn’t have any cultural traditions

• Doesn’t change my view on identity because its not a big deal for me

• I don’t define myself by my ethnic background

• I’m not judged by it like in the book

Personal Dreams and Goals• Going to a good college

• I want to learn as much as I can so I can be successful in life

• Getting a good job• So I can provide for myself and a

family later on

• Being happy• Not having to worry about

everything and being satisfied with the chooses I have made in my life.

• Like the novel, my dreams are going to provide me with a decent life

Conclusion• Shouldn’t be judged by their ethnic background

• Shouldn’t keep them from achieving their dreams

• Should be judged by who they are as a person

• Everyone has different dreams and goals and shouldn’t let anything stop them from achieving them