To Be Young Gifted And Black

Adapted by Robert Nemiroff

Introduction by James Baldwin

( pg. 52-92)

SUMMARY

Lorraine Hansberry move to New York City when she was 20 years old, which was the jump start of her writing career. She got her first job working for the new "Negro paper,'' FREEDOM. life in New York was not easy she lived with tree other girls, she was away from home and was expected to make a life of her own. while living in New York she meet her husband Bobby, and she also wrote her play A Raisin in the Sun which was the triumph of her success
While reading the book I learned that she wrote the play to show the truth about an African American's life at the time, she wanted people to realize that we are all equal, she wanted people to know the straggles that African Americans had to over come on a day to day bases.

QUOTATION

As he said ''The white boys in the streets, they look at me and think of sex. They look at me and that's all they think .... Baby, you could be Jesus in drag-but if you're brown they're sure you're selling" ( Nemiroff 78).

REACTION


When I read this quote I thought that African American women were not treated with respect, also they were judged basted on their skin. People labeled them and did not give them any credit.
African American women had to over come a lot of obstacles due to jaundiced people.