Week 3 Separate and Unequal
Jake Stockling
New Jersey City University
LETD380: Going Public: Literacy and History of American Education
Dr.Rosen
Week 3 my classmates and I read “Separate and Unequal”. In this section the place was taken in 1950. Parents had to risk their lives and futures for equal educational opportunities. At the time schools were mistreating the black children. That led into Joseph Albert Delaine filing a lawsuit against a white school. In 1957 Melba Pattillo Beals was an African American who was selected to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. It was a TED talk that I watched on Youtube. The speaker was speaking about her students and about herself. The lack of wealth can affect children’s living and education. I say that because it is true. The idea I got from the TED talk was that the speaker was trying to get the audience to understand that the white people had a better education better than the blacks. The whites weren’t mistreated they weren’t being mistreated. As a black lady to better her education she had to travel far just to go to a better school. My classmates and I created an visual presentation about the third section in the book. We broke it down by important sections. Post Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Racial segregation in public schools illegal. It was widespread resistance to integration process within the South. A sense my group and I came up with was that it was a lot of violence and hatred within the Black children. They were going through a lot and these teachers did not understand nor did they care for their feelings. In the 1980s the resegregation of schools ordered desegregation plans were being lifted. We came up with a timeline about this section. In 1950 the black schools did not receive good upkeep. The white schools were up to date while the blacks did not have so much. In 1954 school segregation was banned. In 1957 nine Little Rock were being escorted by a National Guard. 1965 the blacks were still attending school no matter what the hatred was. 1968 black students were protesting demanding for better rights. A lot of new historical events added on to my knowledge because I did not know these things. Something that stood out to me was when Plessy verus Ferguson in 1896. It was ruling that as long as equal education facilities may be segregated. Although it was lifted it was still mistreatment playing a roll. NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) were encouraging the parents to enroll their children in white schools. The students were rejected which led into a lawsuit. The lawsuit was outstanding it led to the Black students to sit in the classroom and earn equal education as white students. It was a history making moment they were able to get the better education they deserved. Being able to see that they didn’t have to go though difficult times anymore. Lyndon B. Johnson was able to successfully enforce segregation. They may have faced a lot of struggles but they just wanted equal rights just like the whites had.
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