Read the extract and write an Email (80 to 100 words). One of the themes from this story is: standing up against injustice. Write an email to the Human Rights
Commission. Address the issue of the injustice Aaron experienced in this short story
from the school's supervisor.
1. He was the smartest boy in the Muskogee County School - for coloured
children. Everybody even remotely connected with the school knew this.
The teacher always pronounced his name with profound gusto as she
pointed him out as the ideal student. Once I heard her say: "If he were
white, he might, someday become President." Only Aaron Crawford wasn't
white; quite the contrary. His skin was so solid black that it glowed,
reflecting an inner virtue that was strange, and beyond my comprehension.
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