When Kenny was watching the television, he saw people being so cruel to African Americans, I believe that no kid should ever have to question why whites were giving dirty finger signs to blacks. “we'd seen the pictures of a bunch of really mad white people with twisted-up faces screaming and giving dirty finger signs to some little Negro kids who were trying to go to school. I'd seen the pictures but I didn't really know how these white people could hate some kids so much. “ ~ Kenny (8.16) I believe that people should not be judged by the color …show more content…
People who never looked at them like a human, but like a filthy animal. “Although the declaration of independence states that all men are created equal and the constitution had been amended after the Civil war to extend the rights and protections of citizenship and african americans changing the law of the did not change did not always change the way people behaved.” epilogue page 207. In the South people were so cruel that they made laws against blacks and segregated them. “ In the south, there communities and states passed laws that allowed discrimination in schooling, housing, and job opportunities.” Epilogue 207 they wouldn’t even let them go to the same schools. “In most of the south, african americans were not permitted to attend the same schools as whites, or to use the same parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, hospitals drinking fountains and bathrooms. “