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Christopher Julius Rock's Influence On Education

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Christopher Julius Rock III was the eldest of seven children born to Julius and Rose Rock. He grew up in a small-town in South Carolina called Andrews for the early part of his life (Chambers, 2016). When Rock’s parents wanted better opportunities for the family, they migrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1972 (Chambers, 2016). There, the family settled in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. Here Rock attended P.S. 22 Elementary School and James Madison High School. Both schools had student populations consisting of a majority of white students (Chambers, 2016). Though his parents believed that both schools would offer the best education they could afford, Rock didn’t benefit as much as they thought he would. Instead Rock experienced severe prejudice

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