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Donleavy, gives a speech about the improvements in the local schools. The white school has received new lab equipment for science classes thanks to his efforts. He also states that he has bragged to many important people that several great college athletes graduated from Maya’s school. Maya feels that he has blemished the joy of the graduation day by insinuating that black children only achieved greatness through sports, not through academics. The members of the eighth-grade class hang their heads in shame.Maya laments the fact that she has no control over her life and wishes that Christopher Columbus never sailed to the New World.
Chapter #23
Then i wished that Gabirel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the singing of the Emancipation Proclamtion, and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned in the Santa Maria.
Why was this the first time Maya Angelou has ever heard the black anthem “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” ????
Donleavy was running for election, and assured our parents that if he won we could count on having the only colored paved playing field in that part of Arkansas
Vocab: 1. Embroidered 2. Parasitic
