Overcoming Racism in One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes

Throughout the history of our world, many people have overcome the major barriers of life. The common challenge is the particular race facing race discrimination. On Friday morning, Langston Hughes explained what steps it must take to overcome its process and racial barriers. Friday morning, Nancy Lee is an African-American high school student with passion for art. In her school, even if she is not the same person, Nancy Lee seems to be another student.

The main character of Langston Hughes' short story "One Friday Morning" is Nancy Lee. However, the secondary role of Miss Osha and Miss Dietrich is also important for the theme and information of short stories. The other less important person who appears in the short story is Nancy's parents. Initially, Nancy was an idealist. Meanwhile, she is proud that she is interested in her African heritage and is familiar with her, "American, Black Americans". On the other hand, she believes in American dreams and offers equal opportunities for all. Furthermore, she is discriminated because it is colored at school.

Langston Hughes' short story 'A Friday Morning' has made it possible for a young African-American girl, Nancy Lee, to move to the north recently with his parents, to receive better living and education . Her very talented watercolor painting, she is keen to become her major in college. Because of race discrimination, she was robbed of scholarship. And that is a chance to get a brighter future. Sadly, some people in the world are blinded by race and forget how the United States should be a place with equal rights and justice. The themes that Langston Hughes bring include racial discrimination, equal rights among people, pride of the people and the people, and of course American dreams. His biggest goal is to show the world how to deal with color people, and now the United States does not realize equal American dreams for all men. Nancy Lee may be a colored girl, but sometimes she forgets that her skin color is different from other students.

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teachers Caroline Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes (1871 - 1934). Langston Hughes grew up in a series of small towns in the Midwest. Hughes' father left his family shortly after the birth of a boy, then divorced him. Senior Hughes visited Cuba and then visited Mexico to remove permanent racial discrimination to the United States. After living separately, the mother went to look for work, and the young Langston Hughes grew up in Lawrence, Kansas by his grandmother, Mary Paterson Langston. Through the verbal tradition of African Americans and the behavioralism of her generation Mary Langston planted a permanent sense of racial proud in her grandchildren. In most cases, he lives in Lawrence. In his 1940 autobiography "The Sea" he wrote: "I have been unhappy for a long time, I am very lonely, and I lived with my grandmother.