Sybil Haydel Morial Research Paper

Most people wait for others to help cause change for their communities not many people are like Sybil Haydel Morial, a New Orleans native who decide that she shall not wait for someone else to decide to take a stand. Just like Martin Luther King Jr, she had a vision for change and for all people to have the same experiences, not separate but equal. Even though her family was middle class, she still experience oppression because even though her family was well accomplished and had status, the world still saw them as African Americans. At a young age, Morial was uncomfortable with how African-Americans were treated and portrayed by her white counterparts. Just like her parents she decided to part take in helping and create services for others.

Morial had several roadblocks in life when it came to the pursuit of education. Her journey started at the Xavier University of Louisiana, there she completed two years of college before transferring to Boston University. During her duration at Boston University, she had the chance to experience something that she could not experience in the South, which was diversity because, in the South, Jim Crow prevented blacks from being in the same establishments like White Americans. In addition, at Boston University they were trying to implement more diversity so the Dean asked Morial to become a hall counselor and room with a white student to promote unity between races. The environment in Boston was a new experience that she wishes could be introduced in the South. Therefore, one summer she tries to take a chance by approaching the initiative of diversity at Universities in New Orleans. After, the ruling by the supreme court on the decision on the Brown vs Board of Education to integrate schools, Morial was encouraged by a young man, whom she will later marry to try and apply to take six credits in a summer session at Tulane University. She was able to register and take classes for a while until she was found to identity has colored she was later