Segregated Peace: an essay on Colored People Integration was a main theme or topic in this memoir. It played an important role in the time when Gates was growing up and had a big affect on him throughout his book. Integration changed the way Gates viewed, whites, blacks, restaurants, hairstyles, church, school, etc. He went from a conformist to a rebel to an Episcopal. His community changed with him and the older generation of course …showed first 75 words of 1588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1588 total…community in Piedmont and some blacks didn’t enjoy the outcome of integration. Gates used integration as a doorway to express himself and voice his opinion through his actions and dress like many of the other young blacks in Piedmont. Gates and his younger generation had a higher more optimistic view of integration while on the other hand the older generation believed it to be trouble. Bibliography Gates, Henry Colored People Vintage Books;New York 1994