“Fences” Act One

Today in Multicultural Literature we started reading the play “Fences” by August Wilson and learned about connotation and denotation. After reading act one of the play, I’ve learned a little about the life of African Americans in the North in the late 1950s. For instance, African Americans in the North were treated poorly compared to white people when concerning job opportunities. I am doing okay.

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