Caged Bird - Defending the Work I watched a movie the other night called, "The Color of Friendship". It was about a white teenage girl from Africa, visiting America on a Foreign Exchange Program. She was placed in a Black home and was very frightened at first because she was taught, as a child, to dislike Blacks. She befriends the teenage hostess and decides that Blacks are not as bad as she was taught to …showed first 75 words of 443 total…

…showed last 75 words of 443 total…Weldon Johnson and his wife J. Rosamond Johnson. The Class of 1940 sang this song and believed in themselves even after being put down by an old white guy. Maya's struggles and triumphs can help us, even today, to overcome fears and obstacles. I believe this book should be in every library and every English classroom across the U.S. This book can help us realize that what happened in the past should stay the past.