Learn about the Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation in the United States.
Log in Peaches a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to Peaches's post “I agree that segregation ...” I agree that segregation was wrong, without a doubt. However, based on this sentence: (32 votes) David Alexander a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “These are good thoughts. ...” These are good thoughts. Thank you for sharing. I've given you an upvote. The existence of one-room schools was also tied to things like population density in an area and the ease of transportation from home to school. Roads weren't always as good as they are now, and school buses much rarer, even in industrialized states like Pennsylvania (which has a LOT of rural, mountain, and underpopulated areas). The contrast in Delaware, to which you allude, was seen most starkly in the word "nearby". So, the white students were educated in a nearby well-equipped school, but the black students in the same area were offered merely one room. The discrimination is found in the "well equipped nearby" part of the sentence. (12 votes) Javier Hughes 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to Javier Hughes's post “Where did the idea that b...” Where did the idea that black people are below white people even come from? • (8 votes) Naren 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to Naren's post “Long before the civil rig...” Long before the civil rights movement and even Plessy v. Ferguson, there was slavery in the U.S. which gave many people the idea that African Americans are inherently inferior. Esmeralda Figueroa-Rubi a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to Esmeralda Figueroa-Rubi's post “OMG Idk why people are sa...” OMG Idk why people are saying this is boring. Imagine getting judged or getting treated differently cause of the color of your skin. Never joke around with this cause it can hurt somebody feelings.✊🏽 • (11 votes) Kato Katari 18 days agoPosted 18 days ago. Direct link to Kato Katari's post “Exactly!If African-Ameri...” Exactly! (1 vote) rick lee 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to rick lee's post “Was Thurgood Marshall the...” Was Thurgood Marshall the first ever african american supreme court justice? • (6 votes) nathan Penoyar 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to nathan Penoyar's post “Yes, Thurgood Marshall wa...” Yes, Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court justice. (11 votes) Maurício F. Bento 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to Maurício F. Bento's post “Can't affirmative action ...” Can't affirmative action be considered discrimination as it treats people differently based on race? • hernanday oleary 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to hernanday oleary's post “Well that would be the co...” Well that would be the counter-argument to it existence. However in its absence what has been the outcome? The article above. The reality is, so much of the nation has gotten use to dehumanizing African Americans, without Affirmative Action, they'd probably stand little chance of any degree of fair treatment. (12 votes) templin.seth 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to templin.seth's post “Could a white be able to ...” Could a white be able to stand up to blacks being called names and use black rights too? • (7 votes) 115450-Tomas 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to 115450-Tomas's post “Yes, they could stand up ...” Yes, they could stand up to blacks being called names. But I don't believe they could use black rights as said white person is not black. (5 votes) clarkeliyah 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to clarkeliyah's post “How do you think segregat...” How do you think segregation made the United States look in the eyes of many in the larger world in the 1950s? • (5 votes) tirah123 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to tirah123's post “Segregation made the unit...” Segregation made the united states look like a really bad country, just for the segregation part, it made other people look diffrently how we were trying to '' lead a country'' (5 votes) jongar694 4 years agoPosted 4 years ago. Direct link to jongar694's post “How would you have reacte...” How would you have reacted to segregation in the 1950s? • (6 votes) 19220923 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to 19220923's post “im a beast so probably wo...” im a beast so probably would have ended it quickly you know. (5 votes) Paola Carrillo a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to Paola Carrillo's post “People were getting treat...” People were getting treated differently back then so we are lucky that now we are all treated the same and not judged. • (8 votes) NPSof™ a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to NPSof™'s post “Why do some whites hate b...” Why do some whites hate blacks so much? It doesn't make any sense. • (7 votes) Kate Hesseltine 3 months agoPosted 3 months ago. Direct link to Kate Hesseltine's post “Like seriously tho, there...” Like seriously tho, there is NO difference we are all the same. ( But we are unique in our own ways) (1 vote)Want to join the conversation?
"In Delaware, black students attended a poorly-equipped one-room schoolhouse, while a well-equipped white school existed nearby."
I can't help but to see how things are stated with omission of certain other contextual facts. Even in northern states, one-room schoolhouses weren't exactly uncommon, even for whites. I know because my great grandfather was a teacher who taught in one. And that was in Pennsylvania, where your article's map photo states that segregation in schools was "forbidden". Those schools also, obviously, wouldn't have had a gym or cafeteria. And the article keeps mentioning "impoverished" communities in the South, but Pennsylvania was industrial North; I assume for that reason that there would've been more funding, yet we still had plenty of one-room schoolhouses.
I'm not arguing for segregation, so please don't misunderstand. I'm simply pointing out that, even today we—forward-thinking peoples—are susceptible to bias and misreading the past. Is it possible that schools, even back then, funded based on how many students they had enrolled? Personally, I don't feel that schools would have been inferior simply because they were one-room vs large schools with gyms and cafeterias. So long as each student was being fed an equally nutritious meal and there was outside space for physical activity. Though, when did physical education even become mandatory in schools, anyway? Kids were much more physically active and less lazy in general back then to begin with; it likely wasn't honestly a necessary thing back then—though I could be mistaken.
I'm not saying that blacks were treated the same as whites back then, and I agree that segregation is most definitely wrong. However, I disagree with trying to amplify every single variation that can be found and subsequently turn every single black person into a victim. Of course there is still prejudice here and there; it isn't simply based on race though, because prejudice will always exist so long as human beings have differences. It exists for race, class, disability, religion, sex, hair color and style, political views, type of job, lack of job, large families, etc. The list goes on and on. Most people today recognize that our differences are what defines humanity.
Those are just my thoughts...
If African-American people could endure hundreds of years of discrimination, then people can endure feeling "bored" while learning about it.
