CONDITIONS IN BLACK SCHOOLS KAYLEE ANDERSEN

• Their schools were heavily underfunded
• Many of their schools had leaky roofs and sagging floors
• The only books they had were hand-me-downs from white schools
• Many schools had no books at all

OPINIONS ON BLACK EDUCATION KAYLEE ANDERSEN

• Many people believed they did not deserve an education
• They were limited on what they could be taught about freedom and equality
• White people did not want blacks to know what equality was
• In TKAM the Finch kids don't go to school with black children

CONNECTIONS TO TKAM (KAYLEE ANDERSEN)

• "Let's go home, Cal, they don't want us here-" (pg.158)
• This quote shows how both races felt prejudice against each other
• "They turned off the...to the negro cabins"(pg.321)
• This shows how blacks were shunned in white society
• It also shows that they were not very wealthy

BLACK EDUCATION (DAVID NORBY)

• Black education was poorly funded.
• Black education was in segregated schools.

BLACK EDUCATION HISTORICAL EVENTS (DAVID NORBY)

• In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation in public schools as unconstitutional
• Some universities still required federal urging to open their enrollment to blacks during the 1950's
• In 1968, San Francisco State University became the first college to establish a black studies department
• In the late 1960's, blacks were choosing to go to predominately white colleges instead of historically black colleges

TKAM REFERENCES (DAVID NORBY)

• ""Can't but about four folks in First Purchase read... I'm one of 'em.""
• Shows that not many blacks had any education in the 1930's
• In TKAM, the white people are racist to the black people.
• Shows that blacks are segregated in everything, including education.

BLACK EDUCATION (JENNY MOUA)

• "Racism, poverty, and neglect thus combined to reduce black education to an inadequate, basic level
• Black students were "by far the most heavily disadvantaged group of children in the entire field of education." -President Herbert Hoover's commission on education in 1931.
• Southern school boards refused to build black high schools because most whites believed blacks were racially incapable of advanced learning.
• It was Mostly segregation.

BLACK EDUCATION WITH JACK

• Black schools were often crumbling
• Many black children didn't even go to school.
• Teachers who taught black children were underpaid.
• Black children never interacted with white childeren.
• Many white people were against black education in total

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BLACK EDUCATION WITH JACK

• Black schools were often in need of repair
• Teachers were usually hostile to their own students
• This related to Ms. Stephanie not liking black people
• Black students pretty much never interacted with white kids
• Black kids often had no school supplies. (These facts are from en.wikipedia.org)