I recieved some pretty good feedback on my post. John and Ez seemed to agree that Wright was definetly treated injustly. It made me think more into the situation and now I realized that Wright was mistreated not only by whites, but also by his own black peers in the sense that they all tried to shut him down. Whites shut him down out of anger, power, and ignorance. Blacks shut him down out of fear, and their personal need to conform to society. Everywhere he went, Wright faced harsh rejection and only learned of his blunders through harsh reality and brutal punishment.
Emmett Till
Murdered at 14 years old in Money, Mississippi. The spectacle surrounding Till's murder was one of the precipitating events leading to the Civil Rights Movement.
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