Landon Gardner
Mr. Neuburger
Eng Comp101-101
8 February 2013
Synopsis
“Graduation”
A girl is graduating an all black school in 1940. Before she is all excited about her upcoming graduation and looking forward to the future. At her graduation Mr. Donleavy a white man spoke and pretty much said that all they would be come is a basketball player or an athlete. She felt as if they were talking down to them and saying black people had no brain. Patrick Henry her class valedictorian was giving a speech and started reciting the Negro national anthem. For the first time she heard it, really heard it, and was happy to be black and what it stood for.
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