The Segregation Of Schools In The 1950's

Although some people might say racism doesn't exist anymore due to less or abolished segregation within the schools. Racism also exists in modern day by unequal payment or either weren’t chosen for the job even though they applied due to their certain skin color. According to The Guardian “ This found that unemployment among black, Asian and minority ethnic people was nearly double that of

Working class kind of synonym of poorness. They have usually only a high school diploma. Usually working-class children taught to esteem obedience rather than innovativeness and leadership. Other minus is, schools with low incomes usually are overcrowded and have lack of resources, and they cannot get to a private school. When they get to school, they see that there are fourty students, while the classroom designed for twenty.

Color discrimination has been around for many years. During the slavery times, lighter skin slaves would be in the house while the darker slaves would be outside. I am not saying it is 100 percent true, but that is what my parents and their parents and so on told them. I blame society for the racism within a race. Society has made African Americans dislike each other because of the color of their skin.

Unit One Essay Two landmark cases, one called “Plessy versus Ferguson” the other, “Brown versus Board of Education” changed the world. Around the 1850s, black people were treated as minorities and did not have the same rights as the whites. They had to go to separate schools and sit in different sections on busses or trains.

“ I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see Why Democracy means Everyone but me “(Hughes’’. Langston Hughes eloquently uses contradictions to express racial inequality in The United States of America. Democracy, a word that suggests inclusiveness, but not practiced during Langston Hughes’s time. This inequality is what drove Hughes mastery of words. Langston Hughes was one of the millions of Black American who faced systemic injustice simply because of their skin color.

However, being unconscious of a problem does not make this problem disappear. As racial inequalities were changing through time, ways in which racism manifests itself nowadays are different. It used to be overt but now people have to deal with its covert version. Despite of the civil rights movement and years of initiatives to change disparaging views on racial minorities, including affirmative action, racism is still present in all spheres of life and has a negative impact on African Americans, especially their mental and physical health.

It can occur between men and women, the elderly and the young, whites and Asians and so on and so forth. The most notable of these, however, is the gap between whites and blacks; it is known as the black-white test score gap. Christopher Jencks, editor of the book The Black-White Test Score Gap, said, “The average black student scores below 70 to 80 percent of the white students of the same age” (The Test Score Gap). This discrepancy has been partially attributed to socioeconomic status, due to

“Single-sex education, common in the United States until the 19th century, when it fell into deep disfavor except in private or parochial schools, is on the rise again in public schools as educators seek ways to improve academic performance, especially among the poor.” ( Rich, Motoko - New York Times) “The majority of single-sex schools are private or independent, which means parents are paying fees to educate their children, because they believe single-sex schools provide an academic advantage co-ed schools don’t.(Tasovac, Brooke - Child)” This shows that the poor people aren’t getting a good enough education because they don’t have the money for the single-sex

The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were horrible demeaning laws to keep african americans lower than whites. The laws were designed to keep the white class higher and superior to blacks in all areas of work, education and society in general, the jim crow laws were a racial caste system that was mostly in use in the south. ( what was Jim 1) “ Jim crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws, it was a way of life.” (Pilgrim 1).

The laws were made to segregate white people from people of color. An example of the laws is there were “laws that required Whites and Blacks to attend separate schools and to sit in different areas on public transportation. The laws extended to parks, cemeteries, theaters, and restaurants” (“Jim Crow Laws” 1). One thing I find particularly disturbing is that even in death (cemeteries), people of color were still not equal to whites. The absurd extent of the Jim Crow laws makes it hard to understand why they were put in place, but there was some, if very little, reason behind it.

Education in the South was unfair, because the whites had better schools and the African Americans weren 't given the same amount knowledge as the whites. The North had three more years of education than the South. The education of African American children during slavery was rare and uncertain in Texas as in other Southern states. Education in the North was much better than in the South. In the North there were many oppertunites for Afican Americans to get an education.

Summary “Brown versus the BOE” For sixty year prior to 1950, the educational system in the United States of America was segregated by color gender. The schools were supposed to be equal in curriculum quality and opportunity, but it was not fully equal. In 1950, this equality of education became abundantly clear that it was not equal.

There was one student at the University of Oklahoma that was treated with disrespect and inferiority because of how he looked and how he acted. The poor conditions for blacks in schools under the “Separate but equal” doctrine caused the NAACP to file 5 different cases that took out segregation from schools and the Supreme Court’s decision created history. The conditions for black students were horrible and unsanitary. The ¨Separate but Equal¨ doctrine was created in 1896 to keep blacks and whites away from each other (Somervill 28).

Racial segregation is apart of our educational history. The article The Return of School Segregation in Eight Charts, explains 8 headings that entail segregations of race and poverty, integrations and trend over the years. I did not realize that Latino students are the leading segregated schools by 57% of their schools population is Latino. There is a “dissimilarity index” that shows the balance of integration.

I truly don’t believe it was just a coincidence that the district lines were redrawn to bring the few black students from a primarily white school to the primarily black school. In addition to the district lines being redrawn, my primarily black high school is treated unfairly compared to the primarily white high school next door, Northern Guilford High