Separate & Unequal

 

Part three of School: The Story of American Public Education has been the most outstanding chapter in the book in my opinion. It puts the reader in a place where you feel as if time is going backwards and honestly, it's scary. It is outrageous that “though The issue of equal educational opportunity remains serious business, virtually no one today thinks of it as an issue that one might have to die for. This was not so five decades ago. In 1950, people had to risk their lives and futures for equal educational opportunities. When Joseph Albert DeLaine filed a lawsuit against local white school officials for not providing school buses for his three children, he understood that the consequences could be fatal. Local white authorities in Clarendon County, South Carolina, home of one of the five consolidated cases that we now  know as Brown V Board of Education, fired him from the little schoolhouse where he had taught for ten years. They also fired his wife, two of his sisters, and a niece. Then they burned his house to the ground. They stoned the church at which he pastored and fired shotguns at him out of the dark. Ultimately they burned down his church and ran him from the state.” This exemplifies how far punishment was taken. All he wanted was transportation for his children yet in return they ruined not only his life, but his family too. Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for balck and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is slowly but surely returning. In Louisiana parents want to refrain from the school district and start their own but what they don’t realize is the dangers and troubles that they will be putting upon children that are trying to get a better education. What they really want to do is cut the school down by class, race, and social status which in majority is blacks and hispanics. We are currently living in the 21st century, in a time where things are sought to be equal for everyone and unfortunately in those places where it is, we have individual trying to turn back time. 


Our third part of group work turnedout to be the least challenging considering the fact that we all agreed upon the theme and message of Part 3. “School: The Story of American Public Education”, emphasized that there was a struggle of African Americans attaining equality in education in the mid to late 20th century. The YouTube documentary and TedTalk, both point out how segregated some inner-city schools still are till this day.  To demonstrate the comparison between the TedTalk, YouTube video and Chapter 3 of School, my group mates and I created a visual of a montage of images that depict segregated schools and classrooms along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr I Have A Dream speech audio playing in the background. We chose to end it with Langston Hughes’ recitation of his poem “Dream deferred” in order to illustrate how the dream of integration seemed to sag at times. 



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