Examples Of Racial Injustice In A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying, a story of racial injustice. The main character in this story include a young black man by the name of Jefferson, who is being charged with murder. He has been sentenced to death by electrocution. Before Jefferson dies, Miss Emma, his nannan wants him to become a man, she wants him to walk to that chair with his head high. She asks another colored man named Grant Wiggins to teach him what he needs to be taught in order to know that he is not worthless. In A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines uses racism to show how colored people are being mistreated by white people.
One example that shows some racism is used in the following passage.
“I want all twelve of you honorable men to turn your heads and look back to the second
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