is able to effectively illustrate the awareness that whites oppressed blacks for years, and continued to do so, long after the Emancipation Proclamation, sometimes for reasons apparently unknown to black people. In fact, it has had a lasting impact on the present-day United States, as de facto segregation continues to occur in more rural areas. However, it is important that this situation be changed, because otherwise what meaning would the phrase "all men are created equal" have? » ?”