The short story “One Friday Morning” is published in 1941 and written by the African American author Langston Hughes. Nancy Lee is a black girl who is a student in the senior art class at Washington High School. The school is about to announce this year art scholarship. Nancy Lee is proud to be an American, and she is also proud of being a negro American, sometimes she even forgets that she is black. One day she is called in to the vice principal’s office and she is told that she has won the art scholarship this year and she must prepare a speech. She can’t tell anyone about it because it must be a surprise. She manages to keep it a secret but when the day comes where she is to receive it the vice principal calls her back in her office. Now she is told that she will not receive the award. The committee sent a letter explaining that, due to Nancy Lee’s skin colour can’t they give her the award. The vice principal convinces her, that if they stick together and fight for a better future they can get it.
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