This Is Now Discrimination

Discrimination and prejudice were at large during the 1900s and was terrible, especially when they became physical. Some people think that discrimination is mainly white people being racist against blacks, but there are many types of discrimination, and blacks can also discriminate against white people. There is a clear connection between Mike’s story in That was Then, This is Now, by S. E. Hinton and Emmett Till’s story in the article titled Emmett Till, by Jessica McBirney, which is that prejudice can become violent and lead to serious injuries and even death. In That was Then, This is Now, Mike nearly died after he was brutally beaten by a group of black people after he tried to be nice to a black girl. He stood up for the girl, named Connie,