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Maya Angelou's Graduation

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“Graduation” In Maya Angelou’s autobiographical essay “Graduation,” Marguerite Johnson, an 8th grader at Lafayette County Training School an all-black school, confronts racism in Stamps, Arkansas. Edward Donleavy is a guest speaker at Lafayette County Training School graduation. Donleavy belittles Marguerite and black people as a race. In the speech the speech he delivers. Henry Reed is the 8th-grade class valedictorian; Henry plans to deliver an address that will uplift and encourage the graduating class of 1940. Edward Donleavy is trying to get elected, Donleavy is an arrogant, racist, he makes the black audience of Lafayette County Training School, feel little and

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