"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will hold hands with little white boys and girls," Martin Luther King Jr. said. , the dream still unrealized. White supremacy, black inferiority, Jim Crow laws, segregation, racial terror, and racial inequality are the most common topics in American history. Martin Luther King Jr.'s quote states the truth that racial injustice was in line with the American dream. He hopes that one day the injustice, the idea that African Americans are inferior, will disappear and they will be treated equally as full human beings. The theme of racial injustice is prevalent in both Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues." Both stories show conflicting views of African Americans living in fear of racial terrorism, physical harm, housing inequality, and dangerous living in segregated black neighborhoods. However, they share similar views on racism in the form of economic oppression and the experience of racial injustice in both authors' lives, expressed through their respective stories. In the 1950s racism was at its peak and racial conflicts were a common occurrence throughout the United States. Black people lived in fear of racial terrorism and physical harm. Whites' determination to deny equal rights to blacks often led to violent confrontations, which led to racial terrorism and physical attacks against blacks. Therefore, blacks lived in fear of physical harm. In “A Raisin in the Sun,” evidence of racial terrorism was prevalent and explained on two occasions. Jacqueline Foertsch wrote in her "Against the 'starless midnight of racism and war': A..." (quote left unchanged). Corey's article "'To Keep from Shaking to Pieces': Addiction and Bearing Reality in 'Sonny's Blues'" (quote left unchanged) discusses the theme of addiction in the story. Robin Bernstein's article "Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun" (quote left unchanged) discusses the critical reception of the work. James Baldwin's biography (quote left unchanged) provides information about his life and work.