When Martin became a man, he worked hard to change the laws that kept people apart. Because of Martin and others like him,the laws changed. - Walter Dean Meyers🌍

"Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently." 🌍(Richard Wright)

This novel is about a mystery, about moving to a new house to begin a new life, and about a United States history lesson of the Underground Railroad. The house is like a character. It has hidden doors and secret passages. The community's tangled web of problems add to the plot line while we read about the memories of the enslaved people who were trying to escape to freedom. *( I have really got to buy this book.)🌍

"In the flickering light the mob swayed, paused, and began to flow toward us. In that instant there opened within me a great awareness; I knew then who I was." -Walter White📝

"God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved."

Son of a Harlem minister, James Baldwin summarizes his life up to the age of thirty-one. He concentrates in his life's ambition into one sentence, and talks about the Negro problems in America. He said " I want to be an honest man and a good writer".

This is the story of Mr. Red Leg a masterful black man, skillful at turning white bigotry into black profits. ( The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American community ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.) - Maya Angelou

The author of this post talks about All white people being racist, and that they are taught to work hard at doing 3 things....Deny, Ignore or Spread the lies of white supremacy.

What's behind the latest attacks on teaching about race?

Before Emmett Till, Willie James Howard born July 13, 1928 a 15 year old boy from Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida was killed for allegedly writing a letter to a white girl.