Blacks attending schools with whites still had to endure racial prejudices and misjudgments by much of the population. ... The men at the club could do no more to totally bash the dignity and pride that the guests had built up all their life. ... I am thinking that maybe they did this just to test his patience and pride. ...
In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... Stand out amongst the crowd with passion and pride. ...
This segment is just an example of the prejudice that blacks and minorities continued to experience even when they were supposedly "included" in the work force. ... She juggles the importance of her own race and pride and struggle with that, with the option of being mistakenly considered white and gaining status and other such benefits in this way. ...
