Nightjohn is about a slave girl names Sammy. Slaves down south had to chew tobacco leaves and spit on leaves to kill the bugs. Another slave named Nightjohn escapes the south and becomes free into the north. He comes back to teach Sammy how to read and write so she understands more and what the slave owners are really doing to the slaves. Nightjohn would teach Sammy a letter a night for a lip of tobacco. If the plantation owner found out about her learning how to read and write then she would be badly punished.
Mascot was a biography written by Malcolm X’s about his life. Malcolm had two brothers, Wilfred and Albert. HE went to all white schools and everybody was racist but he was so used to it that it was normal. He switched schools a lot which he then discovered that he wanted to be a lawyer when he grows up. As kids his brother was a boxer and he looked up to him. He then became a teen boxer as well. He fought twice and lost twice to the same person and that’s when he decided that boxing wasn’t for him. He moves in with the Swerlins, a white foster family in Lansing Michigan. In that house he feels more like a pet or a mascot to the family. Malcolm didn’t feel equal to the other kids because he was black. He is #1 in Mason Junior High. He was elected class president and then realizes people don’t see black people as equal as white people because they would always call him a coon and a nigger. Malcolm goes to Boston to visit his sister Ella. Decides to move to Boston because he doesn’t like how he was treated . Then he decides he doesn’t want to be a lawyer , but instead he wants to be a civil rights activist.
The Great Debaters was very much a like Nightjohn and Mascot but also very different. The movie took place in civil rights time as well as Mascot and Nightjohn. The Great Debaters was a movie about a young boy who dreamed of being a good debater on his school debate team. He then makes the team only allowing four people on it. During this time the black debaters were only allowed to Debate against the other black Debaters . They find their team winning all of their debates and wining with ease. Once other colleges realize how good the Debate team is they are then challenged by the best in the country. They were the first Black debate team to debate against a white school finding themselves winning against the best. Its all good until their coach gets arrested for being a black party which was ruined by white farmers. The team goes through a lot of adversity losing one of their best debaters and coach but they find them selves putting it all together and beating the best of the best. Nightjohn and Mascot were much alike The Great Debaters because they were all taken place in the civil rights movement where blacks weren’t treated as equal as whites. Each characters were finding themselves in adversity and finding ways to get around it trying to make themselves equal to the whites. The three stories really shows how African Americans were treated in the civil rights years and how it wasn’t fair. Whites treated blacks with no respect as if they weren’t equal to them. The three stories really shows how all the African Americans just wanted to be treated just as equal as the whites.
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