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 the winner of this year’s art scholarship and she is very excited about it. Nancy Lee is very proud to be American and she is proud to be black. She knows about her forefathers from Africa and all the good and beautiful things about it, and she is proud to have made it this far to a high school in Washington D.C. since both her parents went to “Negro colleges” in the South. But one day she is called in to the office of the vice principal and she is told that she has won the art scholarship this year and she has to prepare a speech. She can’t tell anyone about it because it has to 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, unfortunate as it is, they do not feel that it would be fair to honour her painting with the award because of Nancy Lee’s skin colour. The vice principal convinces her that as long as they fight for a better future they can get it and this comforts her. She is going to fight so other people won’t have to experience the same thing.
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