This project was an eye opener. I thought this project would be like all the other family projects, but I was wrong. From doing this project I learned about my family but most of all about me. I truly enjoyed myself and most of all it helped my grandmother and I become closer. It helped me see that she was one of my biggest supporters. This website helped me remember why I was at Howard University. I hope to be as strong as my ancestries. I hope that one day I can inspire somebody else and change the course of my family by taking a leap of faith. This was one of the best projects.
Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?” By: Langston Hughes in a famous poem.
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore –
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over –
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
This poem describes the way I felt while listening to my grandmothers story. I beleive that my grandmother dreams was not deffered but passed on to the rest of the family to complete.
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore –
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over –
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
This poem describes the way I felt while listening to my grandmothers story. I beleive that my grandmother dreams was not deffered but passed on to the rest of the family to complete.
The Breaking Point
The boiling point for my grandparents living the south is when their eldest son Eddie died. He was sick and only seven. They took him to the hospital hoping to get help. “We waited in the waiting room into every white child that was sick had been took care of.” When he was finally seen they just looked at him and said he would be fine. The white doctors sent him home from the hospital with a temperature of a 106. Two days later Edward Jr. died. When he died and we knew it was time for us to leave. “I was so angry but I knew my baby was better dead because all he had in Mississippi was hatred towards him because the color of his skin.”
My Families Migration
The two disciplines that my family left the south for were economics and social reasons. In this website you will see these two disciplines conveyed to understand why their migration had to happen and how it has contributed to my belief system. The economic view will help you understand how poor my family was and how and how economic prosperity was non-existent.
The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans to the North of the United States during the 20th century. Reading The Warmth of the other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, the character of Ida Mae Brandon Gladney reminded me of my grandmother, Dorothy Thomas, because of the economic and social problems both women were facing which prompted their migration. Because education was important to my grandmother for its economic and social benefits, it set the standard of going to college for me. Because education was important to my grandmother for its economic and social benefits, my grandmother set the standard of going to college for me. My grandmother’s migration contributed to my belief on the value and importance of education in my life.
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