Document C: Influence Of Education

“The creation of schools for former slaves was an important part of Reconstruction” (“Document E: Education” 6). Young black children were sent to school, before the Reconstruction era, blacks were not able to go to school. African Americans had no educational freedom. Even though, African Americans were able to receive education, they did not have complete suffrage and property rights. Their rights were violated. Under the fifteenth amendment, black were qualified to vote, the KKK did not allow blacks to vote. Also, under the fourteenth amendment, blacks should be treated equally. However, unlike whites they were not able to own property, which violated their

Many blacks might have been smarter than other candidates in terms of schoolwork, but due to racial segregation those academic opportunities were not presented. “...we shall not associate with him… he shall not be free to share with us the deliberations of the jury box - to attend us at the bed of sickness and pain….” (Document B) “Where are my prospects? To what shall I turn my hand? ...Shall I be a mechanic?. No one will employ me; white boys won’t work with me. Shall I be a merchant? have me in his office; white clerks won't associate with me. Drudgery and servitude, then are my prospective portion. Can you be surprised at my discouragement?”(Document C) White people weren't allowed to to sell a black man or make him a slave, but they treated black people poorly and unequally because they believed that the black man was below them, in social status and even in

After the civil war and the period of reconstruction during the 20th century, many economic, social and political conditions changed for African Americans. This new freedom and opportunities given to them were not dramatically a big change. Even though the civil war had ended African Americans still faced discrimination and didn’t get as promised. One social change that came out of the civil war and reconstruction was segregation between the two races it was the process of separating the black people from the white. As shown in document 6, we see the public drinking fountain in North Carolina are kept separate from the white.

Before the Civil War, slavery was an extremely popular way to maintain the economy of the South and to bring richness to wealthy white slaveholders. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederate States of America, there was still slavery existing in the Union and remaining border states that did not cooperate with the Confederacy. Consequently, in the 1860s, President Lincoln and Congress started to draft new to emancipate all African Americans and this soon became the thirteenth Amendment which made slavery illegal throughout the United States. According to an excerpt from a report from a Northern white man to the United States government in 1866, Andrews claimed that “Many of the negroes…common plantation Negroes, and day laborers in the town and villages, were supporting little schools themselves.” (Andrews). For the first time ever, African Americans were granted with rights to send their children into public schools get educated as the white Americans do. Before the thirteenth Amendment was proposed, African Americans were outlawed and prohibited from attending school or even reading and writing. The establishment of public schools for freemen was a crucial act in the history that provides opportunities for them to obtain knowledge and live as equal as white Southerners. While there are some historians who claimed the thirteenth Amendment was ineffective since schools were still segregated, but realistically they all received the same regulations. According to a Jim Crow Law in Tennessee, the document claimed that,“White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and efficiency” (Jim Crow Law). Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau in March, 1865, to assist former slaves. The main

As postmodern educators feel their way through an ever changing multicultural classroom environment, it is imperative that each hold firmly to their philosophical positions and do not let society influence them in a negative way. At the same time all teachers should be continually reflecting inwardly to make oneself accountable to their profession.

The struggle for education for the african americans was like a crime. Not only weren't african americans allowed to go to school with the whites but they didn't have many school utilities like the whites did. The whites had many textbooks that were up to date and they had clean rooms and enough seats while schools for the african american were like prisons. They didn't have enough seats or books and sometimes they only had enough teachers to teach since white folk didn't want anything to do with african americans. Before the end of the civil war the education was a real struggle for the african americans. Even though there was effort to make schools for the african americans only a few could go to school since there was no money and they simply

The days of African-American’s not being able to read and write were ending. The Southern States placed African-American schools around their regions. Not only did it bring education to African-American children, the Reconstruction made public schools supported by the states. Before the Reconstruction the Southerners saw education as something that should be taught at home, and it wasn’t a necessity for children to attend a school. The make of public schools, not only educated the African-American children, but also the White children in the

The book Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia: 1880-2012 by Martin Kilson of Harvard, reinforces to the reader that from the end of the slave era in 1865, education was viewed by most African Americans as one of the primary roads to success in American society. Learning how to read was the first thing free slaves. They poured into schools ran by the Freedman's Bureau, as well as attending the church-sponsored black colleges that sprung up across the South.

Before the Civil Rights, most African Americans were not well educated. Most did not go to school and could not read nor write. Those fortunate to go to school, went to schools with less financial support, less well paid teachers, and fewer books. The white people were afraid of the black people challenging them in receiving jobs. In order to discharged of segregation amongst schools, it started with removing the signs that read “Whites Only” and “Colored Only” in areas such as cafeteria tables, churches, schools, and water fountains. The 1954 Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education was the prime responsibility of outlawing segregated education. From here on out African Americans began to gain their rights to equal education as the whites. They became more advance in their education: “in 1998 88 percent of African Americans aged twenty-five to twenty-nine had graduated from high school and approximately 15 percent had completed at least a bachelor’s degree” (Cha-Jua 21). The difference throughout the years of gaining higher education as African Americans is very obvious through the fact that in 1971 the average seventeen-year-old African American could read no better than an eleven-year-old white child. However, by the 1980’s, African Americans in their senior year of high school were reading only two and a half years behind the white students. Once getting an education,

To begin, there were laws and policies regarding black education. During, the pre-Civil War era only white children were allowed to receive an education. Slaves were prohibited from getting an education that would teach them how to read and write, because it was believed that if the slaves were educated they would start to gain knowledge and start rebelling (Racism). After the Civil War, education for African Americans was legalized and the

Whether they spent their day at hard labor or doing menial tasks, there was one thing the vast majority of slave children had in common – their lack of formal education. Fearing that literacy would prove a threat to the slave system, all the Southern slave states passed laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them. Accordingly, the vast

In the packet, Historical Perspectives Informing the Schooling of a Diverse Society: A Legacy of Inclusion and Exclusion something that surprised me was African-American desire for education throughout slavery. Prior to reading the packet, I was aware of some slaves wanting to learn how to read and write, for the chance of possible freedom and the power that comes with knowledge but never understood the full exist of how far they went for education. In the Early African-American Education section it mentioned how Frederick Douglass bribed white children with bread in exchange for Webster's Spelling Book Lessons. I think this is important to me because it shows how those who didn’t have access to education (or the best) wanted it the most.

W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is an expressively persuasive text that gives its readers a glimpse at how slavery in America has influenced the way African Americans viewed the world around them and the effect that it had on their lives in society. In Of Our Spiritual Strivings Du Bois introduces the issue of African Americans being thought of as a problem; and he explains how when he was a child he first realized that he was different when the children in his class were exchanging greeting cards and one girl refused his card because of his skin tone. After this incident, he decided that he would show the world that he; as an African-American individual could be just as successful as white individuals. As time went on Du Bois begun

First, the author describes how Dee’s learning and approaches affected her relationship with her family. For example, Dee intimidated her mother and sister with her education “she used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice”, she did not help her family with her education but rather wanted to be in control (Walker,p.316). Here, one is able to see how Dee frightened her family with her schooling. Strong adjectives and verbs are used such as “forcing words, ignorant, and determined” to express Dee’s superiority over her family through her education.

The K-12 public school system of the U.S. must be nurtured, diversified and promoted to a higher academic standard. The term “public education” means education that is publicly financed through various tax programs and those personnel in charge are accountable to public authorities and designated places of education must be accessible to all students with attendance mandatory unless specified through legal documentation. The term "public education" covers every type of public school from kindergarten through the 12th grade to include traditional, charter, magnet, vocational and various alternative schools.