Bessie House-Soremekun take on growing up in the South during the Civil Rights movement. The affects of slavery led to different forms of literacies such as protesting, storytelling, etc. These forms of literacies are the reasoning of the change of literacy in the black community. The blacks understood that the white man could take almost anything materialistic away from you but was unable to touch your intelligence and your form of literacy. When I usually think of literacy I usually think of reading, writing, environment, and culture. However, Soremekun opened my eyes to a different perspective of literacy. She introduced a new form of literacy to me such as boycotting and protesting. When people started to get involved with the civil rights movement white people realized that blacks were getting more into politics and understanding it.
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