Fences by August Wilson by Taliferrio Gallaher https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw en-us 2022-05-12 13:32:04 UTC 2025-10-16 16:15:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Thematic Connections and Metaphors diaz_edwin https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181284437 2022-05-12 13:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181284437 Family and Community Relationships jenkinsjordan https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181289216 2022-05-12 13:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181289216 gallahertaliferrio https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181292652 Negro league, any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when Black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league baseball. The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947]]> 2022-05-12 13:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2181292652 gallahertaliferrio https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185713553 Playing numbers is like going to the gas station and playing the lotto]]> 2022-05-16 13:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185713553 August Wilson - the 20th Century Writer rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185725512 2022-05-16 13:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185725512 gallahertaliferrio https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185725515 Racism is not simply the result of private prejudices held by individuals, but is also produced and reproduced by laws, rules, and practices, sanctioned and even implemented by various levels of government, and embedded in the economic system as well as in cultural and societal norms. The built-in systems that undermine life opportunities and outcomes by racial category, with a focus on challenges to Black Americans]]> 2022-05-16 13:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185725515 gallahertaliferrio https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185740225 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Ralph Bunche: Dr. Ralph Bunche wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his ability to mediate the Arab-Israeli war in the Middle East from 1947 to 1949.
December 25: Florida NAACP official Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriett are killed by a bomb. This is the first assassination of a civil rights leader in United States history. Moore has fought for Black rights in Florida for several years, calling attention to police brutality against Black Americans, systemic injustices in education, and lynchings.
Lynchings Decline: For the first time in 70 years, the Tuskegee Institute finds that there are no lynchings reported in the United States. Between 1882 and 1968, an estimated 4,742 people are lynched, the majority of them Black.
Invisible Man: Writer Ralph Ellison publishes "Invisible Man." This novel follows a Black narrator as he grows up in the south before the Civil War, attends and is expelled from a Black college, and experiences various emotional traumas including grief.
May 17: The U.S. Supreme Court declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education case, ruling that such practices violate the 14th Amendment rights of Black Americans; specifically, rights granted by the "equal protection of the law" clause.

]]> 2022-05-16 13:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185740225 gallahertaliferrio https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185744191 This led to the displacement of 8,000 residents over the next five years, creating even more over-crowding in the Middle and Upper Hill neighborhoods. This caused the demise of much of the city’s cultural vibrancy, and effectively altered the character of the Hill to the present day.]]> 2022-05-16 13:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185744191 diaz_edwin https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185752232 1- The symbolism refers to different or segregated scenes or roles played by characters, for example a man in authority could be played by a white man and the worker would be played by a black man. Fences empower black people by showing how far we've come from segregation and jim crow. Fences oppresses Americans and specifically black people by reminding everyone of what was present and accepted not too long ago. The cultural message is that in spite of all the cultural clashes between black and white we as Americans have come a long way from racism in our government and neighborhoods.
2- When I hear the term fence the term that comes to my mind is segregation and the image is separation. The thought that comes into my head when you say Fences feel isolated. Fence change depending on the context because in the book the time period help the image of speratoinist come to mind but in our current time period we could think of the white fences that keep animals out and a good aesthetic for your house.
3- This takes courage to present black people like this because at the time it was wrong to think of a black man as anything more than a white man so spreading information implying that is wrong through books is a bold idea. 
4- For the first picture it symbolizes the variety of blakc people and their unique culture by making them in different scraps of paper combined together and for the second picture it symbolizes the vibrance in the working life of black people shown by the factories they commonly worked on and their homes show in the bottom right.


]]> 2022-05-16 13:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2185752232 1.Wilson felt inspired to create a play that portrays the African American experience through the 20th Century because of where he grew up. Wilson grew up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the play Fences it presents the hardness a man develops after his athletic talents and opportunity for a better future are wasted because of racism. As a black man in the 20th century Racism affected every aspect of their lives. rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288416 2022-05-24 20:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288416 2.In the 1950’s it was evident that Philadelphia’s civil rights reforms had not produced the kinds of fundamental change in race relations that civil rights activists had predicted. The vast majority of black Philadelphians remained locked into the city’s worst communities and at the bottom of the city’s labor markets. Another event in the 1950’s was , the Commission on Human Relations announced that it would begin exploring racial discrimination in the city’s building trades industry. In an industry heavily dependent on government contracts controlled employment, the City Charter’s ban on racial discrimination in contracts seemed an ideal mechanism to open up employment in the skilled trades to black workers. Another event during the 1950s was a Black clergy that gave rise to a series of boycotts demanding fair employment opportunities and winning some victories. rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288667 2022-05-24 20:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288667 3.Based on the knowledge of the plays, some predictions of the characters I can make are that they are most likely African-Americans. Looking at the list of plays below, next to the title it also gives the date that the play took time in, for example the Piano Lesson. The play took place in the 30’s where jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music. The plot probably consists of an African American boy who wanted to learn how to play the piano since that type of music became popular. rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288874 2022-05-24 20:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198288874 4.This map is based on a map of the Hill District from 1923 that hangs in the August Wilson Room in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The map he creates identifies locations that are both fictitious and real. Aunt Ester’s house, 1839 Wylie Avenue. The most important location in the Pittsburgh Cycle is a faded mansion from the nineteenth century. In Radio Golf, it is described as a “Federalist brick house with a good double-base foundation” with a staircase made of “Brazilian wood with a hand-carved balustrade.” rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198289071 2022-05-24 20:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198289071 5.In Wilson’s early life his father was mostly absent in his life. The neighborhood he grew up in was primarily populated by Black Americans, Jewish and Italian immigrants. Wilson and his siblings had a difficult life because they were biracial. He struggled with finding a sense of belonging to a particular culture and did not feel that he truly fit into African-American culture or White culture until later in life.. He chose to write about the difficulties of African Amercians because he states that “The real struggle has been since Africans first set foot on the continent, an affirmation of the value of one’s self.” rileyanthony https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198289369 2022-05-24 20:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gallahertaliferrio/eawt10dsrqrwtlmw/wish/2198289369