Black Education: Mixed Schools Vs. Integrated Schools

Segregation in Modern American Schools: How it affects the Students, Why it occurs, and Strides needed to Integrate Hanna Podwin University of North Georgia Segregation in Modern American Schools: How it affects the Students, Why it occurs, and Strides to Integrate Introduction This essay will be on the Segregation in Modern American Schools, how it affects the students, why it occurs, and the strides need to integrate. I picked this topic because I came from a town that was predominantly white. Therefore my school was predominantly white as well. I have always wondered if coming from this type of school has hindered my ability to interact with people of a different race, culture, or background. I also thought of how my education would have been different if I had been taught at a more diverse school. I would have learned more about other types of people not only from my teachers, but from my peers. I have always been interested in this topic and I think it affects more people than we think. Of course, it affects the students, but it also affects the teacher and the mass public. Culturally segregated schools are hindering learning environments. Black teachers teach at black schools, White teachers teach at white schools, so on and so forth with every race. The public is affected; because the schools in their area are not divers meaning their community is not diverse. Diversity is a catalyst for growth in all people. School and education is a great place to start the

The Supreme Court planned to desegregate schools. “In September 1957, nine black teenagers hoped to break a racial wall at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.” (Benson 1). Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls were the students who became the little rock nine. (Lucas 7). Daisy Bates planned to help them get to school. (Lucas 5). “Many White Southern Parents did not want the black students to go school with white children.” (Lucas 13). All the black students were excited for the first day of school. (Lucas 12).

Ku Klux Klan During the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed many laws to provide equal rights to people of color. But at the local level, specifically in the South, many Democrats took the law into their own hands. They supported the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hoping to restore the pre-Civil War social hierarchy. The texts in Going to the Source illustrate two groups of individuals who opposed the KKK. In testimonies given by white witnesses, Republicans from the North felt the KKK posed a political and social danger in the South, but did not feel intimidated. The testimonies given by black witnesses were people who had experience of the Klan’s violence, and felt their lives were threatened. The Klan’s attacks on whites were more inclined towards social harassment, while their attacks on blacks, which consisted of voting intimidation and night rides, were violent and abusive because the KKK’s main goal was white supremacy.

In the book, Warriors Don’t Cry, there are nine African-American students who chose to get involved in integration within an all-white high school. Many of the white students and parents did not approve of integration and demonstrated their hatred in a variety of ways. All nine of them dealt with

As reconstruction begin, many whites in the South seemed to ignore the fact that Blacks were no longer slaves. The Southern states created laws called ‘Black Codes’ that restricted the rights of the freed slaves. “Black codes were laws that were passed in each of the former confederate states following the civil war that applied only to black people.” (Hine, Darlene Clark, et al. 303) The laws highlighted that blacks have no right to vote in elections. However, after the troops were sent to the South, Blacks’ right to vote and involve in public office were secured. Many whites complained about the policy, and some of them created secret organization called Ku Klux Klan. This group tried everything including extreme and inhumane violence to

Record of Outrages in Virginia The Freedmen’s Bureau was established in 1865 to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South during Reconstruction. The Bureau helped by providing food, medical and legal assistance, and housing on Confederate lands that

In early October, the Mother’s League of Central High and racist white students planned to have a “walk out” of school, to protest integration. Almost 200 kids participated, but some of them had gotten a bad feeling about it when they saw not many people were joining in. The ones who left the school went to a park near the school, where they hung up a black-looking straw dummy. They all took turns beating the dummy, kicking it, stabbing it, and then eventually burning it while other kids cheered. Some boys held Confederate Flags while they burned and beat the black dummy. None of the hostile kids were questioned by the police or in trouble by the school.

Board of Education was backed by supporting evidence that proved that “segregation negatively affected the self esteem and psyche of African American children”, provided by the nation's top psychologists. The plaintiffs were harassed and received death threats from white supremacy groups, such as the Klu Klux Klan. The integration of schools was difficult because many white Americans refused to accept this change that they had become so accustomed to. After the African Americans long fight for equality in the United States, the legal segregation of schools ended with the Brown v. Board of Education case, allowing the integration of African Americans and

One of the examples of racism that they still had to endure was the Klu Klux Klan or KKK as it would widely be known as. In “Klan Skepticism and Denial in Reconstruction-Era Public Discourse” by Elaine Frantz Parsons we hear just how bad the KKK was. “Klan violence began in late 1867 and remained at a substantial level” (Parsons 1). Elaine

Title The Little Rock Nine There was a girl named Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African American teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Like all other schools across the country, was segregated. Only white students were allowed. Everything was segregated, when I say everything I mean pretty much everything . The white

Equality didn’t come to African Americans right after the Civil War. It took over a hundred years to get that. Even though slaves were now free, after the Emancipation Proclamation, there still was segregation and inequality. Jim Crow Laws segregated the country by not letting African Americans, sit, eat and drink from the same things as White people. Things that slowed down the equal rights movement are the debate on whether African American had the right to vote, the debate on whether African Americans may have the right to sit in the front of the bus, and much more. Another one is whether African American kids have the right to go to the same school as White kids, which is what the topic I chose to talk about today is about. The Brown v.s the Board of Education is about a little girl who was brave enough to go into a school for white children and attempt to get an education. This brought up a lot of controversy about whether children of any race should go to school together or not. Obviously is was successful because today children of both races go to school in harmony. Now let’s learn a bit more about this case and why it’s important.

Introduction African American Education During and After Segregation Education has always been valued in the African American community. During slavery freed slaves and those held captive, organized to educate themselves. After emancipation the value of education became even more important to ex-slaves, as it was their emblem of freedom and a means to full participation in American Society (Newby & Tyack, 1971). During this time many schools for African Americans were both founded and maintained by African Americans. African Americans continued to provide education throughout their own communities well into the 1930’s (Green, McIntosh, Cook-Morales, & Robinson-Zanartu, 2005). The atmosphere of these schools resembled a family. The

Justine Sabo Prof. Blake Windham GOVT 2306 1 May 2016 Achieving Voting Rights for African Americans in Texas Following their emancipation in 1865, African Americans in Texas faced many obstacles while trying to gain full voting rights and overcome the severe limitations of slavery. These obstacles included Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, racial gerrymandering and

In our day and age, we enjoy so many privileges. One of which is equality of education and schools that are not segregated. However, this was not always the case. During W. E. B. Du Bois life time and more specifically before May 17, 1954 schools were segregated and were not equal. Due to deep sited prejudice after the civil war, African Americans could not go to White schools. The schools that they could go to where more often than not were not as well equipped or have as many activities, such as sports activities, that white schools got to enjoy on a regular basis, textbooks and other material was often outdated by at least 5 years. Even going to school was not equal as there were cases of African American children would have to walk to school while white children, sometime much closer to their schools than the African American children were to theirs. This all came to a head in Topeka, Kansas where Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African American girl was not allowed to attend a

Should society work towards creating schools that are racially integrated or work toward creating solid neighborhood schools? I'd like to start with this question… was Brown vs The Board of Education just about segregation of race? Was it also about children connecting with other cultures? Or was it an attempt