RAISIN IN THE SUN & SEGREGATION

Hailey Webb

Casal

December 12, 2011

Throughout American history, African Americans were discriminated against, provoking an outburst of need for change in the mid-late 1900s.

JIM CROW

1927: Housing [Municipal Code]• 80% of Chicago neighborhoods

restricted • Relator and Chicago Planning

Association contracts• Supported by University of

Chicago • Gained white support

Neighborhoods remained

segregated by choice

Claybourne Park

Segregation taken seriously by

neighbors

Karl Linder tries to bribe

Younger family to leave

Laws couldn’t keep people

from discriminating &

supporting segregation

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON & W.E.B DUBOIS

Booker T. Washington Influential African American leader

with Controversial point of view

• Maintain African American

identity rather than fight

segregation

• Self supporting laborious

jobs

• Large amount of Caucasian

supporters

W.E.B. Dubois Civil Rights Activist & Scholar

• Lead Niagara Movement

• Wanted full political, civil,

and social rights for African

Americans

• Abolish segregation & racism

in America

• Never found a large following

& diminished

Shared point of view with Mama

Mama disagreed with his views

Saw him as a “fool”

Believed African Americans

should fight for their rights to

complete freedom

MY ETHNICITY

German, Italian, Native American

Interest in traveling Europe

Connection with nature

Free Spirituality

Should not define you as a person

MY DREAMS

Move to Southern California• Leave worries behind

• Leave old apartment for spacious house in Claybourne Park

Work in Cosmetic Industry• Have positive impact in people’s lives

• Benetha strives to become a doctor

Find happiness in daily life• Focus on love and family

• Walter’s revelation leads him to begin caring for family

ACCEPTANCE

Accept others for who they are

Disregard ethnicity

Keep from judging others based on stereotypes

Follow your dreams

Don’t allow others to restrain you