Raisin In The Sun Segregation

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During the 1950s, the struggle of African Americans closely represented the struggle of the Younger family. Education was not something that African Americans could easily achieve. Good jobs were also something that were hard for African Americans to have. African Americans were often put through segregation during the 1950s. African Americans were often discriminated against. In the book A Raisin in The Sun, it closely represents some major themes of which sparked the civil rights movement, like Education rights.

In the 1950s, education was harder for African American people to achieve.
For African Americans during this time period, schools were often segregated for blacks only and whites only. White people during the time did not want their
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The work that black people did during the 1950s generally did not pay well compared to their white counterparts. The work that African Americans were given was very poor “the 1940s and 1950s, Memphis was a place where blacks were concentrated in the lowest-paying, dirtiest, and most hazardous jobs, and where the political establishment (the noxious, violent Boss Crump machine) routinely colluded with employers to harass and assault union organizers”(Jones). Not only were the African Americans given poor quality jobs, and were not paid well for them, the union organizers who would help them get a better quality of work would often be assaulted to keep them from revolting, or moving up in the world. The job that Walter do in A Raisin in the Sun is low paying and poor quality. Walter was a Chauffeur, and he was not satisfied with this when he asked his son, Travis what he wanted to be “Oh, about a lot of things. About you and what kind of man you going to be when you grow up…. Son-son, what do you want to be when you grow up”(Hansberry 107), Travis responded to this by saying “A bus driver”(Hansberry 108), after this, Walter said “A what? Man, that ain’t nothing to want to be”(Hansberry 108). His reaction to his son wanting to be a bus driver, which is very similar to his job, as a chauffeur, clearly shows that he is not satisfied with the kind of work he was forced to do, and he does not want the same for his son. African Americans were often discriminated against in the workplace. White people would usually take the priority of better jobs and promotions compared to African Americans “Unlike their white counterparts, who often began working at menial tasks and then progressed to different departments and better-paying jobs, blacks remained in “black” departments regardless of their age, skills, or