Going Against the Grain..

Since the journey to America, Blacks, especially the black women, have been oppressed and purposely restrained from their rights as humans. Europeans did not want us to learn how to read the bible, to interact with one another happily, or to be looked upon as their equal. We could not vote or own property. Through all of these struggles, the black woman still has the will to fight against these evils. She knows who she is, although her peoples' history has been "forgotten". She is the center of the family, of the entire community.

As it was then, it still is now. Everyone knew slavery was morally wrong, along with racism. Many of the government officials, presidents, and mayors in the late 1800's spoke out against slavery, stating that it was unconstitutional to force someone to work for free, to beat or to even kill them, but none of which did anything to fix the problem, not either of them.

The article, "Going Against the Grain", covers a wide range of subjects, from slavery, to black women, to white presidents, but mostly centers around the struggle for the equality of black women. It summarizes all the the efforts that were put into motion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for blacks as a whole and for black women in the "white world".