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Life For A Black Woman In The 1960's
Life for a black woman in the 1960’s was about as easy as finding a job once you’ve been called a thief. No one treated you right, everyone looked at you as if you had some sort of disease, you got bossed around and you had to take it. A symbol represented in the book is a white apron. A white apron represents the help since that is what they have to wear everyday of their lives while working for their white peoples. The idea a white apron represents is the injustice black people have to deal with from the day they're born to the day they die. It also conveys the differences between blacks and whites. White ladies got to wear their fancy dresses and get their hair done up all nice while walking around in their pretty heels. Whites were treated
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