¨Then I knew for sure, the segregationists had bombed my house. They'd resorted to dynamite to run me away from central.¨ This shows how racism people where they bombed people home just to get them out of school they could have killed her. The doctrine of ¨Separate but Equal¨ did not make its appearance until 1896 in the case of Plessy v. ferguson. The book called ¨A Mighty Long Way¨ by Carlotta Walls Lanier is about a girl named Carlotta, who goes to Central High School and is black who faces tough times in a race school with people who don't want her there. In the book ¨Little Rock Girl¨ by Shelley Tougas is about Nine Africans american kids who go to central and get harassed every day, but they become famous and have a statue of them. The press shows, photos, pictures to illuminate events for a national audience, however they tell an incomplete or inaccurate story. …show more content…
One way the media illuminates things is through pictures. Hazel Bryan yells at Elizabeth ¨Go Home Nigger!¨ (on page 6 in Little Rock Girl) This illuminates how much hatred and racism there was in the South. It showed the North how much racism they had in the South. Another way the media illuminates things through television. Faubus stood up and said that ¨there is evidence of discord, anger, and resentment. (on page 65 in A Mighty Long Way) This illuminates that segregation is getting out of hand and that this shows the North that people in the South really don't care about blacks. The media use pictures and television to illuminate events, but it can sometimes show an incomplete or inaccurate