Stereotypes In The 1950's

Back in the 1950’s - 1970’s, there were a lot more stereotypes in the world. In the article by Jessica McBirney, Emmett Till decided to visit his uncle in Chicago. He was dared to flirt with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, and then she harassed him and threatened to kill him. Then, her husband had abducted him, and abused him and pushed him into the water where he laid there dead. In the novel That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton, a black girl walked in a drugstore, and the white kids were being rude to her. Mike stuck up for her, and offered her a ride home because she had to wait an hour because she missed her bus. She was little sceptical, but she got the hang of it by the end. But then Mike was saying he was sorry about what they have done to her, and she lost it.
Now he is in the hospital and was almost killed. One similarity between the two is that in the 1950’s through the 1970’s there people who liked and disliked black people because of their race, and they would fight for what is right. First off, “ ‘...because I still don’t hate Negroes, least of all Connie, I can almost see why she did did it, Almost.’ “ This shows that even thought that Mike was seriously hurt by the black people he still does does not hate them because he knows they are still just average people at the end of the day. Mike is fighting for equal rights because he feels that there is nothing dangerous about driving a black girl home. This means that there can also be white who believe that black people should have equal right too. One line from the article is “Another writer defend Bryant and Milam, saying, ‘[They] did what had to be done, and their courage... is to be