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A 5 page contention that the phenomenal success achieved by Lorene Cary, author of the autobiographical “Black Ice”, was indeed an atypical experience for black women of the time period. Cary’s success, however, is not solely attributable to a set of fortuitous circumstances but also to hard work and determination. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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In the wake of the Civil Rights Movement Lorene Carys experience as a
black woman was atypical of most blacks of the time. Lorene Carys "Black Ice" is her memoirs of her childhood during the tumultuous Civil Rights Movement. Using the
metaphor of the crystallization of black ice, Cary recounts the highlights of the time and of her subsequent life as an adult. Her experiences relate to the myth of
assimilation, choices, and opportunities. They also related to the price one has to pay for their choices in life. Cary
was allowed an exceptional boost at an early part in her life which propelled her on her way to success. Other young women did not have this opportunity.
Although Cary receives a scholarship at the young age of fifteen to attend St. Pauls Preparatory School in New Hampshire, however, she too will run head on into the social
injustices which prevailed. Two problems immediately arise: Cary lives in metropolitan West Philadelphia and she is black. St. Pauls, of course, is a predominantly white school and
only just before she arrived it was not only all white but it was all male. Cary was, in fact, the first African American girl ever to study there.
Cary must not only leave her home, her family and her friends, she must travel into an arena which is not overly receptive
to blacks (and especially black girls) during that time period. She adjusts by excelling at everything to which she sets her mind. That to which she sets her
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