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Beth Elaine Brown was a young girl in a primitive time period. She worked hard because her parents lived on a farm as slaves and if she didn’t help she might get sent away. She loved her family, and despite the circumstances her parents always managed to stay positive and respectful. Beth dreamed of being free-something that seemed impossible to most African Americans. She, however, believed in humanity and being optimistic. Beth sometimes went without dinner and slept on the cold floor, but she still had hope. When she grew older she worked hard to protest the status quo, she became brilliant and an image that everyone wanted to see in themselves. She was free without being free, escaping from torment and discrimination. She stood for the rights of her community and her family. Beth became known state wide and was starting to make a difference until that one terrible tragic day. She was walking to town when two white officers passed her and decided that they weren’t going to deal with anymore incorrect influence. She was found two days later, dead. Her community mourned her, and the whites mocked her. Either way, she was being thought of.