Fever

Fever Racial Tension in Fever With the racial tension as high as it was in Philadelphia at the time of the Fever, one would think that any common enemy or goal would bring everybody together. However, when the illness known as the Fever hit the city, prejudice rose to different heights. Prejudice and racism is bad enough as it is. However, the citizens of Philadelphia were making it look like they wanted the blacks and immigrants to come back into the city. They told the blacks that they could come back to the city because they had immunity to the disease, when in actuality they only needed the blacks and immigrants to act as caretakers for the white upper class citizens. They forced the blacks and immigrants out of their homes, where they were loved by their families and friends, and into nursing the white residents of Philadelphia. The blacks and immigrants went from a place that they truly loved and that truly loved them back to a place where they were forced to love those whom they had hated just weeks before. In other words, the blacks were forced into forming an artificial love fever, city, blacks, people, immigrants, philadelphia, loved, back, work, out, needed, forced, white, skills, same, own, neighborhood, immunity, hit, go, task, sorely, return, racism, place, ones, now, hated, doing, called, before, appreciated, yellow, wrote, working, words, wideman, upon, truly, told, together, tension, sufferings, saving, save, rise, reality, racial, prejudice, outside