The Color Purple: African-American And Racism

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of colored women's plight. Three obstacles black women had to overcome to be able to express themselves were Racism, the lack of education, and the stereo-type that women are inferior.
African-Americans have always experienced racism throughout their habitation in America. Slavery, is what caused most of the hatred towards blacks. African Americans were sold by their people and sent off to a foreign land. Colored people were used as work horses when they entered America. "It was acceptable for a white person to be lazy (in the South), and therefore, a white person takes advantage of this" (Theriault). White people wanted to keep their laziness. If the slaves were set free, then the whites would have to do more work. The slaves still fought for what they wanted, and finally won their "independence." Another dilemma was "if the south could abolish slavery, what would happen to the slaves? These slaves have been slaves for all their lives and would require education. ...

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for freedom. Unfortunately, for the South, the North was educating their blacks. Then these blacks were coming south and starting colleges for colored people. Booker T. Washington wrote, in his autobiography,

ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to
overhear two miners talking about a great school for
coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the
first time that I had ever heard anything about any
kind of school or college that was more pretentious
than the little coloured school in our town. In the
darkness of the mine I noiselessly crept as close as
I could to the two men who were talking. I heard one
tell the other that not only ...

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