Alma Struggled Through her childhood education because of segragation.Life was hard because when she was born segregation was still going.Alma also struggled because of two world wars The Great Depression,The flowering of Harlem Renaissiance,the civil rights movement,and the struggles for a black identity and the women's movement.
Mary Struggled through segregation also. She was being falsley accused of poisoning to white students. Mary moved on because she was just believing and succeding and didnt really worry about what others thought. In Oberlin College she was also fasley accuesed of stealing paint brushes from her Art teacher and giving two white girls bad wine on Oberlin College grounds.