To Be Young, Gifted and Black (3-52)

Adapted by Robert Nemiroff
Introduction by James Baldwin

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black follows the life of Lorraine Hansberry recording her childhood and life accomplishments.
The foundation of the autobiography brings us back to her early days as a African American girl living in Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry went to a segregated school she only obtained one-half of the education given by the Board of Education in her city. As a result she was unable to count properly. in school she would often get beat up; due to her class in society. She was known as a rich girl because her father was a middle class businessman. this experience made her become a rebel. Her High school career was no different it was filled with violence and hate. When she started college she describes it as being unspeakably dull and irrelevant. Her days consisted of note-taking, lectures and lads. Her least favorite class was physical geography. Thus, it is with no dough that Lorraine Hansbery had rough life where she was judged and ridiculed, she overcame many challenges from going to a segregated school to just being African American. It is with no dough that Lorraine Hansberry is a very gifted women

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She stated ''This is what is meant when we speak of the scars,that marks that the ghettoized child carries through life. To be imprisoned in the ghetto is to be forgotten-or deliberately cheated of one's birthright-at best"(Hansberry 36).

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when I read this quote the words that jumped out at me was "Deliberately cheated of one's birthright". Witch means that African Americans were not given any chance of accomplishing anything in their lives. At the start of their childhood society let them know where their place was, and what they would become. They were not given a fair chance of being successful. They were bound to fail.