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From the two short stories you have read what do we learn about what it was like for American black people to live in Americain the 1950s?
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English GCSE - Syllabus A Diverse Cultures Unit: Gold Cadillac by M.D. Taylor and 1955 by Alice Walker From the two short stories you have read what do we learn about what it was like for American black people to live in America in the 1950s? From the two short stories; The Gold Cadillac by M.D. Taylor and 1955 by Alice Walker, both set in 1950s America and both written by black female writers we learn about the segregation, racism and poverty of 1950s black America. Both these stories are set in the deep south of America. The gold Cadillac is about a young black girl who knows nothing about racism and discovers it for the first time as she travels with her family into the Deep South in a gold Cadillac. 1955 is written from the point of view of a black woman who has experienced the racism her whole life. America in the...
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