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= __**AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION BEFORE AND AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT!**__ =

Imagine, lining up for a race shoulder to shoulder with your team mates. Unfortunately, your opponent gets a head start, so far that they seem so close to the finish line yet you are still miles away from you own destination. The only word that is running through your head is DISADVANTAGE! This is the image I thought of wile researching African American education. Unfair, unjust, unconstitutional, disadvantage, however you want to describe it, it was a reality for some. In “it” I mean the education provided for the black community or as I interpreted it, the okay for them to begin the very long race. It all started with reconstruction. Public schools established but segregated only to reduce “conflict.” This soon spread to both north and south. At first African Americans were happy to receive any education at all, and felt this would help their children feel more comfortable in all black schools so there would be no racial encounters. What African Americans didn’t register is that even though they felt the slightest change in the nation’s attitude towards them they were still considered inferior. I soon learned that because of the white-controlled government who didn’t want blacks to be educated, blacks received far less financial support than the white schools. Resulting in fewer books, worse buildings, and less well paid teachers. Typically one teacher for all subjects, ages, and grades! Overall they ran and ran and ran but still could not catch their opponent. An achievement gap separated the whites and blacks, while they struggled to close it. I wanted to interview Gwen Bishop, my godmother, and Synovia Youngblood, my mother, to compare the educational experiences before and after the civil rights movement.

SOURCES! -this website basically gave me primary sources from the time and erally helping with understanding backround information. its a website with all the newspaper and things along that line. 2. [] -This is a website with a complete timeline that was presented to the public of african american education. It help me by giving me court cases, and other stuff along those guidelines to help me with the situations people were going through
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