Relating Civil Rights to Raisin in the Sun
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Relating Civil Rights to Raisin in the SunAnnalie Brining
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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