Ware 1
Gabriel Ware
Professor Wilson
ENG 102
December 7, 2022
Raisin in the Sun Essay: Effects of a Neighborhood
Raisin in the sun was a very interesting story to say the least, the idea of putting the
reader in the shoes of an unfortunate family within Chicago. The usage of unfortunate would fit
perfectly for the description of their situation, this being a number of reasons to which will be
discussed. The effects a neighborhood has on a person or family, with consideration to their race
particularly because during the time period in which the story takes place, racial discrimination
and segregation were a prominent thing an unwritten rule amongst white people that disliked the
idea of being equal with African Americans or people of color.
This process of discrimination was planned to section people of color into specific areas
of poverty this process was presented in the form of Jim Crow laws which stated the idea that
black people were separate from white people but not equal, an good example of this being the
supreme court case Brown v. Board of Education “In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race,
through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public
schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. In each instance,0488 *488 0they had been
denied admission to schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting
segregation according to race. This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal
protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.” (Brown) This was only a portion of
what would occur to African Americans, all the while this was occurring the Younger family
