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I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation -- even though I started school 1 year after schools were integrated,
by greglindahl 8y ago
I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation -- even though I started school 1 year after schools were integrated, there were a lot of remaining signs of the segregation era. The elementary school that I went to in 1st grade was torn down a year later because it was falling apart: that was OK for a black school during segregation, but having half the toilets and water fountains broken wasn't OK for an integrated school.
- forapurpose 8y ago> I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation To add to your point, they can see it now: Even though it's not the law, schools are highly segregated and, IIRC articles I read awhile go, funding to schools that are predominantly African-American is much lower.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation Remember? You can see it now. Not just in the South, but in every state. In fact, Oregon is probably the state where segregation and its effects are the most visible today.